To Japetus Steenstrup   15 June [1850]

Down Farnborough Kent

June 15th.

My dear Sir

I sincerely beg your pardon for troubling you so soon, but I write to say that my Plates are in the Engraver’s hands, & if you could without very much trouble send me soon the additional specimens of your Anatifera cretæ or Oxynaspis ? or Scalpellum ?1 it wd be a great obligation.

Dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | C. Darwin

1
Classified by CD as Scalpellum (?) cretæ, with Anatifera cretæ as a synonym. The specimens sent by Steenstrup were not classified as a new fossil genus for lack of proof that they had only five valves. See Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 45–6.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1342,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1342