From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
11 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/60)
Summary:
Has changed his bank to Union Bank, Charing Cross Branch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Has changed his bank to Union Bank, Charing Cross Branch.
Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.
Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.
Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."
Thanks for his kind invitation. Returns to Paris on Thursday or Friday. Best wishes to Lady Herschel.
Asks for the experience of other countries in introducing decimal coinage.
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