From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/198)
Summary:
About to go to press with "wearyful" Fossil Cirripedia [vol. 1 (1851)];
would like to borrow proof-sheets of Frederick Dixon’s work [The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of Balanus glacialis from Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses formal request [see 1356].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project