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DCP-LETT-1453

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
9 Sept [1851]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Thanks him for letter and Balanus specimen.

Acasta is curious; may be a new genus.

Is sending copy [of Fossil Cirripedia 1]. Correcting proofs [of Living Cirripedia 1].

Mentions comment by Hermann Abich on JDD’s chapters on the Sandwich Islands [in Geology (1849)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13976

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0259.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Complains that H. W. Field seems to have forgotten that, as officer in new Mint, Field should be available whenever required.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1454

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
9 Sept [1851]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Returns fossil cirripede specimens to JS and Forchhammer.

Sends copies [of Fossil Cirripedia] to them and to Sven Lovén.

Reading proofs [of Living Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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