To Robert Damon 15 October 1877
Summary
Cannot give information requested. Seems incredible that mere contact should be poisonous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Damon |
Date: | 15 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 212–213) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11185 |
To C. T. E. von Siebold 15 October 1877
Summary
Thanks CTEvS for photographs of human abnormality;
regrets death of Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold |
Date: | 15 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.525) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11184 |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Damon, Robert | (1) |
Siebold, C. T. E. von | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Damon, Robert | (1) |
Siebold, C. T. E. von | (1) |
Barnacles
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …