From C. W. Thomson 1 May 1877
University | Edinburgh
May 1st. | 1877
My dear Sir,
Since our return to England I have been gradually getting the great collection of Invertebrates made in the ‘Challenger’ into something like order. I have just gone over the Crustacea with Mr. Norman and we have separated out the different groups.1 There is a very fine little set of Cirripeds not very extensive but with some very large and marked forms, some of them from great depths.
I do not know at all whether you would be inclined to take them up— At all events it is only my duty to put them at your disposal, and to say how much I feel having your name among our collaborators would enhance the value of the final Report—2
I send a list of the observing Stations, and the ‘preamble’ will give you an idea of our plan of operation.3
Believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Wyville Thomson
Footnotes
Bibliography
Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851.
Hoek, Paulus Peronius Cato. 1883. Scientific results of the the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology Part XXV. Report on the Cirripedia collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Hoek, Paulus Peronius Cato. 1884. Scientific results of the the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology Part XXVIII. Report on the Cirripedia collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Lepadidæ; or, pedunculated cirripedes. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851.
Summary
Is sorting material collected by the Challenger and wonders whether CD would care to examine the cirripedes.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10947
- From
- Charles Wyville Thomson
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- University of Edinburgh
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 114
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10947,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10947.xml