From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
11 Dec [1847]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/7)
Summary:
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
Seeks permission from the Trustees of the British Museum to borrow the cirripede specimens in the public collection. Explains his intention to produce a monograph of the Cirripedia.
Asks JCR to collect cirripedes for him on forthcoming expedition [to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin].
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.
Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.