From P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson 25 June 1877
Sir!
In your letter to Dr. Martin Duncan (Nature June 14) I find the list of naturalists, whose aid has been obtained for the different groups of animals, collected in the Expedition of the Challenger.1
In your “general sketch of the arrangements, as they now stand” a small group of Arthropoda, the Pycnogonida or Pantoproda (Crustacea or Arachnida?) has been omitted.2 Yet I think to be sure they will be abundantly represented in your collections: Prof. Sars got up large numbers of these curious animals, during the norwegian north-sea expedition of 76.3
I don’t know, if there is one of your country-men zoologists, who nowadays can be considered an authority on this group (Since {Hodge} 1864 as far as I know nothing has been published in England on Pycnogonida);4 nor can I call myself an authority only having published on Pycnogonida the small memoir, of which I have the honour to send you a copy.5
Therefore it would be rather arrogant, when I did ask you to be joined to the list of English and foreign celebrities, who all got parts of the collections; yet it would make me so very happy, (1) when you would like to trust me with part of the collected Pycnogonida (duplicates) and (2) when you would be so kind to communicate to me the name of the naturalist, who will be selected in this small but interesting department.6
Believe me Sir! most respectfully | your obedient Servant | P. P. C. Hoek
Flushing. Zoological Station of the Netherlands Zoological Society. June 25 1877.
To Sir C. Wyville Thompson. F.R.S. etc.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Christiansen, Merit E. 1993. Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927), the great carcinologist of Norway. In History of carcinology, edited by Frank Truesdale. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema.
Hodge, George. 1864. List of the British Pycnogonoidea, with descriptions of several new species. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club 6: 195–9.
Hoek, Paulus Peronius Cato. 1877. Ueber Pycnogoniden. Niederländisches Archiv für Zoologie 3 (1876–7): 235–54.
Sars, Georg Ossian. 1877. Prodromus descriptionis crustaceorum et pycnogonidarum, quæ in expeditione norvegica anno 1876, observavit. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab 2: 337–71.
Summary
Requests duplicates of [H. M. S.] Challenger Pycnogonidae.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11016
- From
- Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
- To
- Charles Wyville Thomson
- Sent from
- Netherlands Zoological Society Station
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 228
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11016,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11016.xml