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To George Crawford Hyndman   16 April [1852]1

Down Farnborough Kent

Ap. 16th—

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your kindness in sending me the larvæ of the Balanus.2 I have seen them before but they are very fine specimens, & I daresay will hereafter come in very useful, & I will carefully preserve them.

I beg to remain | Your’s faithfully & obliged | C. Darwin G. Hyndman Esq

1
Dated on the basis of the paper, which has a narrow mourning border and appears to be the same as the paper used for the following letter.
2
The larvae in the first stage of Balanus and other Balanidae are discussed in the section on metamorphoses of cirripedes in Living Cirripedia (1854): 104–14, but Hyndman’s specimens are not specifically mentioned.

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