Samuel Stutchbury and Darwin’s cirripedes

Charles Darwin began work on his monograph of the cirripedes in 1846 at the suggestion of J. E. Gray, Keeper of the Natural History Department of the British Museum. Darwin, in a letter quoted by A. E. Gunther, refers to a collection of cirripedes that had been lent to him for study by a Mr Stutchbury. He asks Gray to ascertain whether the Trustees of the Museum would similarly lend him the Museum's collection ‘contained in 8 or 10 drawers’ for him to work on in ‘my house here’ at Down, Farnborough, Kent. Gray, in his minute to the Trustees submitting the request, states that the collection had been kept in drawers under the cases ‘for the last five or six years, and during that time has been consulted only by a single person, Mr Stutchbury of Bristol for private examination until lately when Mr Darwin has been often making use of it’

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