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DCP-LETT-1253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[21 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes his research on cirripedes.

Comments on paper by AH ["Notice of a burrowing barnacle", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14]. Asks to borrow specimens.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1256

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
29 Sept [1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks AH for specimens of Alcippe.

Discusses capacity of Lithotrya to bore its own hole. Believes Arthrobalanus also makes cavities this way.

Asks to see paper on cirripedes by Sven Lovén.

Comments on paper by AH [see 1253].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1262

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[29 or 30] Oct 1849
Source of text:
Maine Historical Society
Summary:

Thanks him for specimens of Alcippe.

Comments on sketches by AH and on cirripede paper by Lovén.

Discusses Lithotrya and its burrowing habits.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.87)
Summary:

Discusses the new genus, Alcippe, described by AH ["Notice of the occurrence on the British coast of a burrowing barnacle", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14]. Comments on Lithotrya, Clitia, and Anatifa. Discusses cirripede larvae. Asks which Mollusca specimens AH wishes to borrow.

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