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Reference code
Add. MS b/1/24
Title
Letter from Charles Darwin to William Thompson
Date(s)
- 1 Mar. 1849 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 bifolium and one loose sheet.
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Scope and content
Down Farnborough, Kent. Discusses the difference between two genuses of barnacle, Chthamalus and Balanus and mentions specimens sent, and encloses a drawing of the two; has been going through Thompson's collection and finds it admirable. Comments on… read more
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Publication note
Published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, ed. Burkhardt et al., vol. 4, and online as letter 1232 of the Darwin Correspondence Project.
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Add.L.b.12.3