From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[13? Apr 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:
Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
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.
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Thanks JH for the volume of verse. Hopes the Herschels will visit if they come to London.