A Monograph Of The Sub Class Cirripedia

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736406681
Total Pages : 1137 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia written by Charles Darwin and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My duty, in acknowledging the great obligations under which I lie to many naturalists, affords me most sincere pleasure. I had originally intended to have described only a single abnormal Cirripede, from the shores of South America, and was led, for the sake of comparison, to examine the internal parts of as many genera as I could procure. Under these circumstances, Mr. J. E. Gray, in the most disinterested manner, suggested to me making a Monograph on the entire class, although he himself had already collected materials for this same object. Furthermore, Mr. Gray most kindly gave me his strong support, when I applied to the Trustees of the British Museum for the use of the public collection; and I here most respectfully beg to offer my grateful acknowledgments to the Trustees, for their most liberal and unfettered permission of examining, and when necessary, disarticulating the specimens in the magnificent collection of Cirripedes, commenced by Dr. Leach, and steadily added to, during many years, by Mr. Gray. Considering the difficulty in determining the species in this class, had it not been for this most liberal permission by the Trustees, the public collection would have been of[Pg vi] no use to me, or to any other naturalist, in systematically classifying the Cirripedes... Charles Darwin