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Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • Darwins work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems
  • frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwins species work. Yet when this study is
  • Moreover, as the letters in this volume suggest, Darwins study of cirripedes, far from being merely
  • on the species question (Crisp 1983).    Darwins interest in invertebrate zoology stemmed
  • references to the ova of various invertebrates, and Darwins first scientific paper, presented
  • from common barnacles.    It was perhaps Darwins further discovery of developing eggs within
  • Prior to the publication in 1830 of John Vaughan Thompsons account of the developmental history of
  • mantle cavity contained sea-water (Winsor 1969). Thompsons sequential observations of the
  • him with his own collection, arranged access to the museums specimens, and advised him on procuring
  • naturalists (Knight 1981). Many of Darwins contemporariesEdward Forbes, Richard Owen, Louis
  • to reveal, among other things, how an individuals conception of the order of nature shaped the
  • 1982; Richards 1987; Winsor 1969).    Darwins views on classification were tempered by his
  • its emphasis upon analogy and affinity in arranging groups (S. Smith 1965; Ospovat 1981, p. 108). …
  • the common design perceived among organisms. Within Darwins maturing evolutionary perspective, the
  • 1969, p. 83).    By the early 1840s, then, Darwins ideas on classification were well
  • such questions as yours,—whether number of species &c &c should enter as an element in
  • from common stocksIn this view all relations of analogy &c &c &, consist of those
  • …   Receptive to Geoffroy Saint-Hilaires philosophical anatomy, Darwin incorporated the
  • metamorphoses, as we shall see presently in Hippoboscus &c  states that in Crust, antennæ & …
  • of the common barnacles (the Lepadidae and Balanidae) in 1853. Upon dissecting Alcippe and
  • of Balanus , in a letter to Hooker on 25 September [1853] ( Correspondence vol. 5), Darwin
  • is well demonstrated by a letter he wrote to Charles Spence Bate, 13 June [1851] ( …
  • spirits  Every cirriped that I dissect I preserve the jaws &c. &c. in this manner, which
  • received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1853, even before completing the second
  • vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 November 1853] ), Hooker wrote: ‘The RS. have voted you the
  • printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 6 (1853): 3556, mentioned both Coral reefs
  • conception of archetype in a letter to Huxley, 23 April [1853] ( Correspondence vol. 5), …