270 LETTEKS FROM C. DAEWrN, ESQ., 



ago got what little good you could out of it. I shall be pleased 

 at your doing whatever you liked with my specimens, etc. 



You shall hear when I have *. . . with Alcippe. The 

 other evening I read over your paper, and could not get to sleep 

 for hours, from thinking of its curious and anomalous structure. 

 I have some other specimens of yours. 



With my sincere thanks, 



Believe me, my dear Sir, 



Yours sincerely, 



C. DiEwiif. 



No. 14. 

 (No postal date.) 



Down Farnborough Kent, 



Jan. 29th. 



My dear Sir, 



I write in a hurry to catch to-day's post to beg a favour 

 and to apologize. For the former first : I have been deeply in- 

 terested by Alcippe, though I have not added much to your 

 excellent description, excepting perhaps on the homologies (as 

 compared with other Cirripedes) of the sexual parts. I am almost 

 driven mad by its generative system, and I write to ask whether 

 you have any dry shells with Alcippe you could send me, as I 

 think I could get some considerable good from them. I am most 

 anxious to examine many specimens taken at different times of 

 the year. I should be most grateful if you could send me such 

 by post, allowing me to pay postage if heavy. Alcippe has no 

 relation to my burrowing South American little Cirripede. 



Would it be possible to employ for me any fishermen to get 

 the shells now? though specimens taken later than these you 

 sent me would perhaps be most useful to me ; but any now would 

 be of greatest interest to me. My surmises are too vague and 



* A piece of the letter torn off here. Perhaps " grappled " is the word used. 



