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To J. de C. Sowerby   4 May [1850]

Down Farnborough Kent

May 4th—

The Pal. Soc. have just settled not to give me more than I Plate full of foreign species,1 & therefore, until I see how many will pack in one Plate, I shd be glad if you would not draw Pollicipes Hausmanni, P. carinatus & P. elongatus & perhaps not even P. validus.—2

I am very anxious to get on.—

Will you kindly send me one line to say exactly what progress you have made: I have some few more specimens to bring up.

Yours sincerely | C. Darwin

1
The minutes of the Palaeontographical Society for 26 April 1850 record: ‘Money granted, up to the maximum of the cost of one extra plate, so that foreign specimens may be illustrated by Darwin’ (Palaeontographical Society Minute Book, British Museum (Natural History)). The society was primarily interested in publishing species of British fossils.
2
All the species mentioned are figured in Fossil Cirripedia.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 therefore] ‘th’ over ‘un’
1.2 I shd] after del ‘will’
3.1 exactly] interl
3.2 few] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1324,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1324