Thanks for specimens of cirripedes attached to rocks, which show no boring. CD hopes to see some on limestone.
Encourages CSB to do research on the complemental males of Scalpellum vulgare.
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Thanks for specimens of cirripedes attached to rocks, which show no boring. CD hopes to see some on limestone.
Encourages CSB to do research on the complemental males of Scalpellum vulgare.
Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].
Has changed his bank to Union Bank, Charing Cross Branch.
Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.
Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.
Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."
Discusses the development and morphology of Verruca.
Would be proud to receive memoir ["Les crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
Discusses the [CD/Emma] marriage trust.
Writes concerning marriage trust.
Solicits information about the kind of syphon required to convey water from a proposed large water tank to existing smaller ones.
Discusses installation of watering system. Sent question to Gardeners’ Chronicle but, through EC’s kindness, superfluously.