To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 26 July [1851]
Down Farnborough | Kent
July 26th.—
My dear Sir
I really beg your pardon for troubling you so often; but I must get you kindly to answer me one question by Monday’s evening’s Post.— viz, I have written out in Latin & English short (i.e. 2 or 3 lines) specific character. In my monograph for the Pal. Soc. Mr Bowerbank specially asked me to insert both, as in some cases Latin & in others English Descriptions had been given by other authors.— I intended to insert both in present volume, but have just recollected that this is a point you ought to settle, & which must be settled at once.1 In actual bulk, it will make, at most, only some 8 or 10 pages difference in whole volume.—
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
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
Asks EL whether he should use both Latin and English descriptions of specific characters [in vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1446
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1446,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1446.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5