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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
1 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD has received an enormous lot of Scanian and Copenhagen cirripede fossils, some of which he thinks may be better than those sent to JdeCS earlier; asks him to delay engraving foreign specimens until CD has time to go through the new lot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

New specimens have shown CD he has two distinct species under one name [in Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. He adds new figures and suggests deletions. Will come to London when he has proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
12 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD has two corrections in spelling on woodcut [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has asked J. S. Bowerbank who should cut the blocks and suggested JdeCS get it done. Repeats arrangements to compare specimens and proofs in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
23 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Plans to come to London to examine the proofs of JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has new German specimens; one is unknown and must be introduced but a woodblock will do.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project