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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
17 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Ripon College, Lane Library
Summary:

At request of Edward Forbes sends vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia and vol. 1 of Fossil Cirripedia.

Calls attention to sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/58)
Summary:

Discusses his account. Mentions the rent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Dec [1852 or 1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100)
Summary:

Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock.

Mentions Alcippe specimens borrowed from AH.

Relation of sexes in Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Dec [1852-3]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project