To J. S. Dismorr   13 June [1851]

My Dear Sir

I cannot tell you where to get a dredge—but if you will call on Professor Forbes at the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street¹ (taking this note as an introduction—& tell him you wish to dredge on the S Australian Coast I am very sure he will gladly take you & give you five minutes advice & Prof Forbes knows more about dredging than all the other naturalists in Europe put together²

I am delighted that you will look after the fossil bones in the clay, whatever they are.³ whether simply the wonderful great Kangaroos or not, they will be well worth collecting & sending home, particularly heads teeth jaws & joints

As I live in the country, you had better direct to me to care of my friend Prof^r Owen Royal College of Surgeons Lincoln’s Inn Fields—⁴

I am really obliged & flattered by the wish you so kindly express to send me something interesting— There is a little pedunculated cirripede I believe common on the whole South Australia ——?⁵ which I should be very glad to have several specimens of all sizes still attached sent home, having been placed immediately in strong spirits—well corked & bladdered up— They consist of 4 little bluish valves mounted on a flexible peduncle crossed with yellowish spines—⁶ There is a most extraordinary anatomical peculiarity which I want to disect There is also another cirripede attached to corallines of So Australia in deep water of which I enclose a rude tracing which I should much like to have several of for same purpose in spirits—⁷ I am at present hard at work on a Monograph on the Anatomy & Classification of all the Cirripedes (Lepas Balanus &c) in the whole world—

With every good wish for health & prosperity & success in Geology & Natural History | Believe me | My Dear Sir | Yours Sincerely | C Darwin