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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
21 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/41)
Summary:

Asks his opinion concerning possible investment. Asks about possible land sale to Mr Mason.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1850]
Source of text:
Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n.
Summary:

Gives his opinion that the larval antennae in Lepas correspond with the inferior antennae, the superior not present, as in most Daphnidae. [See 1381.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
29 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Smith College Library
Summary:

Discusses attachment of antennae in larvae of cirripedes.

Asks for information about how parasitic cirripedes are attached to host.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project