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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ray Society
Date:
[before 23 Jan 1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY)
Summary:

"A letter having been read from Mr. Darwin stating that the MSS of the 2nd vol. of his work [Living Cirripedia] extended to 900 pages it was resolved that the whole be published in one volume."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
28 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 56)
Summary:

Asks for parts of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror [1844–75].

Asks about the arrangement of cirripedes at the Museum; hopes JEG will keep CD’s names.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
6 May 1854
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (1909: 9)
Summary:

CD expresses his inability to accept the view that the Hippuritidae are in any way a connecting link between the oysters and the barnacles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Gould
Date:
21 June 1854
Source of text:
Natural History Museum Library and Archives, London The Correspondence of John Gould (1804-1881) Z MSS GOU A (Box 5)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Gould
Date:
26 June 1854
Source of text:
Natural History Museum Library and Archives, London The Correspondence of John Gould (1804-1881) Z MSS GOU A (Box 5)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
29 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/)
Summary:

Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project