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Title: A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2)
The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes

Author: Charles Darwin

Release Date: March 8, 2010 [EBook #31558]

Language: English

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THE

RAY SOCIETY.

INSTITUTED MDCCCXLIV.

[Illustration]

LONDON.

MDCCCLI.

A MONOGRAPH

ON THE SUB-CLASS

CIRRIPEDIA,

WITH

FIGURES OF ALL THE SPECIES.

BY

CHARLES DARWIN, F.R.S., F.G.S.

THE LEPADIDAE;

OR,

PEDUNCULATED CIRRIPEDES.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE RAY SOCIETY.

MDCCCLI.

C. AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW

PREFACE.

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 permis