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To Adam White   [January–March 1850]1

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My dear Sir

As you tell me that Mr Adams is going out to Lancaster Sound,2 will you ask him, whether he will do me the real favour to collect for me any cirripedes floating or fixed from N. latitudes, marking localities. Care must be taken of the bases of the Sessile cirripedes.—

Will you also ask him, where “Cape Rivers” Voyage of Samarang is.—3

Yours in great Haste. | Very sincerely | C. Darwin

1
Dated on the basis of n. 2, below.
2
H.M.S. Lady Franklin and H.M.S. Sophia set out to search for the lost Franklin expedition in April 1850. Arthur Adams was not on board, but CD did obtain at least one specimen from the voyage. A Balanus porcatus from Lancaster Sound is listed in Living Cirripedia (1854): 257 as owned by ‘Mr. Sutherland’, presumably Peter Cormack Sutherland, surgeon to the expedition and author of an account of it (Sutherland 1852).
3
Cape Rivers is located on the northern part of Celebes. Arthur Adams, assistant surgeon on board H.M.S. Samarang during the survey of the Malay Archipelago, 1843–6, provided notes on the natural history of the islands in Belcher 1848 and edited the Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang (1850). Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the Crustacea from the voyage.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 him] above del ‘me’
2.1 Samarang] before omitted point

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1286,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1286