Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
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Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
Describes progress of research on fossil cirripedes. Comments on specimens sent by JS. Asks about age of several European formations, and for information about specimens.
Thanks for the information about a possible investment.
Parcel from AAG containing cirripede specimens has been received by CD from Hugh Cuming.
Thanks AH for specimens of cirripedes. Believes all species of Lithotrya bore.
Discusses possibility of providing B. J. Sulivan with a vessel for fossil hunting in Patagonia.
Asks RO to ask Mrs Dixon about borrowing cirripede specimen.
CD wants Lepadidae drawings [for Fossil Cirripedia] harder, with lines of growth more distinct; he wants no shading or similarity to lithography, which he thinks has harmed natural history. He realises that mutilated specimens may make accuracy difficult.
Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.
Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.