From V. O. Kovalevsky   15 September 1870

London

15 Sept. 1870.

Dear Sir!

I have just received a letter from my brother1 in which he says that he set himself to verify Your old discovery about the supplementary males, but unhappily in whole Naples there is not a single copy of Your monography of the Cirripedia, so I make use of Your kind proposition to lend me for a short time Your own copy which I shall immediately forward to Naples, as soon as my brother has done with the book he schall send it back to You.2

At the time when he send me the letter, he was able to see only some of the Scalpellum preserved in Spirit in the museum, but has a good hope of getting a plenty supply of living ones3

Your very truly | W. Kowalevsky

31 Bloomsb. Str. | Bedf. Square.

1
Kovalevsky’s brother was Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky.
2
For CD’s discussion of complemental males in the barnacle genera Scalpellum and Ibla see Living Cirripedia (1851), pp. 281–93 (see also Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix II, and Newman 1993, pp. 377–82, for a discussion of CD’s work on complemental males). On CD’s concern to have his observations verified, see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865].
3
Kovalevsky refers to the Zoology Museum of Naples.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7320,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7320