LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



his contributions to carcinology were welcomed by 

 Milne- Edwards, the distinguished French zoologist. 

 He published three volumes, and an atlas, on the natural 

 history of the Crustacea, between 1834 and 1840 ; and 

 several years later three volumes more on the coral ani- 

 mals, or polyps properly so called. He was therefore 

 interested in Dana's work from two points of view. 



H. MILNE-EDWARDS TO DANA 



" PARIS, TO Aug., 1843. 



" Although I had not yet the pleasure of correspond- 

 ing with you I had long considered you as an old ac- 

 quaintance, for a sort of fraternity exists between men 

 who cultivate the same science, and the perusal of your 

 valuable papers on siphonostoma had shown me that 

 carcinology may now expect to reap as much benefit 

 from the labor of American naturalists as from the ob- 

 servations of any European observer. It will therefore 

 afford me much satisfaction if I can be of any service to 

 you. 



" Since the printing of my work on Crustacea I have 

 published an article on Scrolls and the description of 

 some new Decapoda (in the Archives du Museum] ; I have 

 also under press a descriptive catalogue of the Crustacea 

 found on the coast of Chili by M. Dorbigny, and if you 

 will let me know by what channel I can forward them, I 

 will with great pleasure send you a copy of these papers 

 or of any of those which I have previously published. I 

 can also give you a copy of a paper on Limnadia, pub- 

 lished in my zoological journal (Annales des Sciences 

 Naturelles) by one of our young naturalists here (M. 

 Joly). I must also point out to you a series of papers on 

 Amphipoda, Lernaea, Hippolyte, etc., published by Kroger 

 in the transactions of the Academy of Copenhagen and in 

 a Danish journal edited by that naturalist. You will also 

 find some new species of Cyclopidae described in the last 

 volume of the Transactions of the Entomological Society 

 of London, and I have published a series of about eighty 

 plates representing all the principal types of Crustacea 



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