To J. D. Hooker [12 November 1846]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Thursday
My dear Hooker
Would you be so kind as to send me a line to say whether you shall be up in London, on next Thursday, Friday or Saturday,, & if you are naturally coming up, will you appoint some hour & day at some place & I will be there: I am anxious to know at once whether you will be up, as I have appointments to make for all these days & cannot do so, till I hear from you.—
I believe Arthrobalanus has no ovisac at all!, & that the appearance of one is entirely owing to the splitting, & tucking up to the posterior penis, of the inner membrane of sack.— I have just found a Cirripede with an indisputably abortive anterior penis; so that this chief anomalous feature (viz two penes) in Arthro-balanus is in some degree brought within bounds.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
The alteration in my microscope, in accordance with your advice, has really been beyond value: the porcupine quills better than the glass tubes; the Chutney Sauce capital, so that I have many daily memorials of you.
N.B. I have cleverly invented two blocks of wood to support my wrists when dissecting under microscope a splendid invention.
Adios.—
Footnotes
Summary
Will JDH be in London?
Cirripede observations.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1022
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 71
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp & C
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1022,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1022.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3