To Henry Lee   26 November 1871

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Nov 26 1871

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your very kind note, the interesting notice, & the photograph.1 You have made, I think, a little mistake about the Lepas. It is the L. Australis, which is confined, as far as I know, to the S. Hemisphere. The L. Hillii is found all over the world, as you will see in my monograph on the Lepadidae.2

My dear Sir | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

The note, notice, and photograph sent by Lee have not been found.
CD gave the distribution of Lepas hillii and L. australis in Living Cirripedia (1851), p. 72.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8086A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8086A