260 LETTEES FEOM C. DAEWIN, ESQ., 



undergoes its metamorphosis. I have several foreign species of 

 Clitia, and I will attend to their to me quite wonderful boring 

 powers. 



Yours very sincerely, 



C. Daewin. 



No. 7. 



(No postal date. Marked " 1850 ?" by A. H.) 



Down Farnborough, Kent, 



Sunday. 



My dear Sir, 



I send one line to beg you to keep my MS. as long 

 as ever you like. I guessed why you did not write ; it was 

 wholly unimportant. I am sorry for the smash, and sorrier the 

 species do not turn out more interesting ; it is, however, as you 

 say, curious about the Eanges. 



The Balanus sent (for which many thanks) is the common B. 

 Cranohii of British authors. I have never seen it from north 

 of Tenby, in S. Wales, I will return it hereafter if requested. 



I should be very glad to see the Greenland Balanus. Please 

 state when sent whether to be returned. You know I must 

 disarticulate a specimen for examination. 



Have you several specimens of the Madeira little pedunculate 

 Cirripede (which I named Machairis^^ and have now changed into 

 Oxynaspis), and if so, and you would lend or give me one for 

 disarticulation, I should be very glad, as my specimens are all in' 

 utter state of decay, and several points of the dried animal remain 

 unexamined by me. (I have this genus fossil from Chalk !) 



I mean now to continue at the Systematic part till I have 

 finished ; a period which will arrive Heaven only knows when. 



Many thanks for your letter. In haste. 



Yours truly, 



C. Dakwik. 



*Monog. Cirripedia, Bay Soc, 1851, p. 138. 



