From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[18 Dec 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.71)
Summary:
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum and problems of classification. Encloses a note of thanks to be laid before the Trustees [see 1153].
Mentions returning borrowed book by Camillo Ranzani.
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from British Museum. "In truth never will a mountain in labour have brought forth such a mouse as my book on the Cirripedia. It is ridiculous the time each species takes me."
Thanks JEG for congratulations [on Copley Medal?].
Mentions JEG’s illness.
Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].