To J. S. Henslow   13 March 1855

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March 13th/55

My dear Henslow

Many thanks for the list, & I shall be very glad to get the new Edition.1 I am sorry that I have given you any trouble now that you are so very busy. I write to beg you not to think of the Anacharis2 till you are quite at leisure.—

I will send the cirripedes next week to care of Mr. Webb.3

Yours most truly | C. Darwin

1
The second edition of Henslow’s British plants growing wild in the parish of Hitcham, Suffolk (Henslow 1855a).
2
Anacharis, now called Elodea, is a genus of water-weed. A species of it, E. canadensis, was introduced to Britain from Canada c. 1842. Thereafter it spread throughout Europe.
3
Carrier of parcels for the Ipswich Museum (Russell-Gebbett 1977, p. 112). Henslow had asked CD to give cirripede specimens to the museum (see letter to J. S. Henslow, 2 September [1854]).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.3 Anacharis] ‘A’ over ‘a’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1647,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1647