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To T. H. Huxley   4 January [1857]1

Down Bromley Kent

Jan. 4th

My dear Huxley

I congratulate you heartily on Mrs. Huxley’s troubles being over.—2 It is a horrid affair at the best of times; & I fear a repitition will not make you feel younger.—

The Balanus is positively B. balanoides, & you may positively state that the surface to which it adhered was not beneath level of lowest tide3

I will bring specimen when next I come to London.—

Ever yours | C. Darwin

1
The year is given by CD’s reference to the birth of Noel Huxley (see n. 2, below).
2
Noel Huxley was born 31 December 1856 (L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 150–1).
3
CD had described the tidal locations in which individuals of Balanus balanoides were found in Living Cirripedia (1854): 272.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2037,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2037