From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
6 Apr [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:
He has returned William Thompson’s MSS and, he believes, all his specimens of Cirripedia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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He has returned William Thompson’s MSS and, he believes, all his specimens of Cirripedia.
Has found a half dozen [cirripede] specimens belonging to William Thompson and a few MS notes. Asks for instructions for sending them to RP.
Discusses the transport of seeds by birds. William Thompson received letters on this subject from CD in 1848 and from Edward Forbes in 1850. Encloses copies of Thompson’s reply to Forbes’s letter of 23 Feb 1850 and of Thompson’s notes (1848–51) on transport of seeds by birds.