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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
25 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Thanks JS for fossil cirripedes. Discusses the specimens. Sends thanks to J. G. Forchhammer for specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Describes progress of research on fossil cirripedes. Comments on specimens sent by JS. Asks about age of several European formations, and for information about specimens.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
20 May [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Describes progress in illustration of fossil cirripede specimens. Thanks for answers to questions. Comments on hermaphroditism. Describes his discovery of parasitic male cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
15 June [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Asks him to send additional cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
1 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Fossil cirripede specimens have arrived.

Describes progress on his monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Would be grateful for the paper on Lithotrya. Asks for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker
Date:
20 Sept 1850
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4941 I, 4to)
Summary:

Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens.

Describes progress on his book [Fossil Cirripedia] and his work on living cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens.

Comments on book [F. C. L. Koch and Wilhelm Dunker, Norddeutschen Oolithgebildes (1837)].

Sends thanks to Friedrich Adolph Roemer and R. A. Philippi for specimens.

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