From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 265
Summary:
Sends further details about the beetle and mussel sent to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends further details about the beetle and mussel sent to CD.
Has found a frog with bivalve attached to hind leg.
Will send shell by post to British Museum. Will prepare article for Nature [see 13696].
Shell smashed by careless servant. May have been Cyclas cornea. Will send letter to Nature.
According to John Gwyn Jeffreys’ book [British conchology (1862–9)] shell is Sphaerium corneum, a synonym of Cyclas cornea.
Will send letter to Nature about shell [attached to beetle]. Will use old name of Cyclas.