From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
2–3 Dec [1853]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66)
Summary:
Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.
Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.
Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.
Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.
Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].
Comments on MS of JAHdeB’s work ["Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].