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[469] 1850. Olim meminisse juvabit! and then, my dear and valued and most enlightened friend, we may study once more together the surface of my native rocks for ‘auld lang syne.’ . . .


From Charles Darwin.

Down, Farnborough, Kent, June 15 [1850, probably].
my dear Sir,—I have seldom been more deeply gratified than by receiving your most kind present of ‘Lake Superior.’ I had heard of it, and had much wished to read it, but I confess it was the very great honor of having in my possession a work with your autograph, as a presentation copy, that has given me such lively and sincere pleasure. I cordially thank you for it. I have begun to read it with uncommon interest, which I see will increase as I go on.

The Cirrepedia, which you and Dr. Gould were so good as to send me, have proved of great service to me. The sessile species from Massachusetts consist of five species. . . . Of the genus Balanus, on the shores of Britain, we have one species (B. perforata Bruguiere), which you have not in the United States, in the same way as you exclusively


Houghton, Mifflin and company, New York, Boston, 1885.

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