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To Yves Delage   29 May 1881

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

May 29th 1881

Dear Sir

I am much indebted to you for your great kindness in having sent me your work, with its magnificent illustrations, on the Circulatory apparatus of the sessile-eyed Crustaceans.—1

With much respect, I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

Photograph

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CD’s copy of Delage’s doctoral thesis, Contribution à l’étude de l’appareil circulatoire des crustacés édriophthalmes marins (Contribution to the study of the circulatory system of marine edriophthalmic crustaceans; Delage 1881) is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Edriophthalma are a former taxonomic group, roughly equivalent to the orders Isopoda and Amphipoda, whose members possess sessile compound eyes.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13183,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13183