To James Hilton   25 October [1851?]¹

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your kind offer of the Cirripeda from the Northern Atlantic. But I have examined so many specimens from these seas, without finding anything new, that really I do not think it worth troubling you to send the specimen in question.—

The number of specimens attached to floating timber are but few, & I think that they are all perfectly well known.— I am,, however, not the less obliged to you for your very kind offer of assistance

I beg to remain | Your obliged & obed. servant | Charles Darwin

J. Hilton Esq^re