RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & George Darwin. George Darwin's diary, 1853-1855 / Draft folios of Living Cirripedia. CUL-DAR210.4.1. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR210.4 contains drafts of Cirripedia and George Darwin's papers.

Darwin recorded in his personal Journal in 1854, "Sept. 9th. Finished packing up all my cirripedes.1 preparing Fossil Balanidae distributing copies of my work &c &c."

Some of the draft pages of Living Cirripedia were cut up and re-used as scraps for the children. Seven cut up pages were made into a little diary for George Darwin. The diary consists of 27 pages, 16 of them lined, and numbered from 1 to 16. Other paginations by archivists are in square brackets.

On the front page numbered '1' are entries for 1-8 November, without the year. George recorded Darwin went to London on 8 November, making the year most likely to be 1855. On the back of page 15, there is a dated entry "Monday 4 1853 April Went a walk Mr huitsens". George was eight years old in 1853.

In the middle section of the diary where a piece of thread was strung through to tie the pieces of paper together was the top half page of Folio 4 '(4) Clisiadæ'. This is the only surviving diary from any of Darwin's children and innocent and adorable it is, it is also an important document. Only mentions of Darwin in George's little diary are transcribed.

The drafts of Living Cirripedia were formerly catalogued as CUL-DAR210.7.[1] and transcribed in 2022. The text has since been superseded as new drafts belonging to the set are uncovered. It has since been re-catalogued as part of CUL-DAR210.4.1 and CUL-DAR210.4.2. Seven cut up pages from George's diary are matched to form 7 half-page drafts, re-organised, corrected and transcribed. The texts and composite scans are added to the end of this document.


[1]

1

[Entries from 1 to 8 Nov]

G H D

Nov 8

Papa went to London 8th

[1v]

(1

letd or sack-formed)

balanidæ

founded into a sack-formed

a toothed calcareous rim, with

downwards towards the rostral

abldom part- abdomen narrow

ted. Mouth with upper lip

belliform movable organ, Polypi

mandibles & inner maxillæ

pair present; haunches not articulated. Pairs double

anteriorly to anus.

ted by st single style beneath

[2]

2

[in Darwin's hand] nocular & furnished with

[Entries from 9 to 13 Nov]

Nov 12 No walk, Papa has come home on the 12

Nov 13 Papa has brought a pencil cutter.

[2v]

3

[Entries from 14 to 19 Nov]

and 4 calerd pencel

Nov 17 papa [illeg] the duke buried on 18

Nov 18 Papa too come

[3]

4

[Entries from 20 to 29 Nov]

Nov 20 papa has gone to Bromley

Nov 24 Went to Aunt Sarah than to the sandwalk with papa

[3v]

Pedunculated Sessile (II Div

(2) Lepadidæ

Capitulum usually

(2) Peduncle without calcareous

cement-glands & two

undivided cement

flattened with calc. pieces sometimes absent or rudi

(1) Capitulum not as generally

rudimentary, with

Hepte-lasmis the brachial valves

Calcareous pieces not overlapping each other, with

Upper portion of cal

Valves only capable of being shut

Animal Sack, not furnished wi

adductor of tergal valves

Animal lodged obliquely within capitulum — stomach

Branchiæ attached

no sack — branchiæ;

palpi flattened but pointing   as

[text excised] like bullate

[4]

or notched

formed, nearly as large as

without prominent rostrals

Cirri 6 pair with haunches having two first pair

posterior. 2d pair w

contracted.

Tail absent or rud

Hermaphrodite, or bisexual Penis single, seated beneath

Ovaria, seated within pedun

Larva in first stage uniocular with

attached generally to floating or moving objects dead

[4v]

5

[Entries for 30 Nov to 11 Dec, not transcribed.]

[5]

6

[Entries from 10-19 Dec, not transcribed.]

[in Darwin's hand:] Order I Tripoda

[5v]

[Doodles]

Crustacea

Cirripedia

Sub-families

 

Genera

Arthrobalanus

(1) Anatiferidæ

 

Alepas? 3

Otion 1

Cineras 2

Anatifera 4

Trilasmis 5

Heptalasmis

(2) Pallicipidæ

Sipho-cepas

[Acalaia]

 

Scalpellum 2

Ibla 3

Smilium? 1

Pollicipes

Mitella

Lithotrya

 

d & aviror unequal or unsymetric

Clisia

 

[6]

[Doodles]

(1) Chthamalidæ

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catophragmus 1

Octomeris 2

Chthamalus 4

Priolepas 5

Chamailasma 3

Thuralepas 6

Artrolepas 7

(2) Coronulidæ (?)

Coronula

Platylepas

Tubicinella

(3) Balanidæ

A flat or irregular

Balanus

[Diktuobus]

Coria

Elminius

B. Base cup-shaped parasitic in or on corals & sponges

Acasta

Conopea

Adna

Prygoma

Creusia

Nobia

Desaria

35 genera

 

[6v]

7

[Entries for 20-23 Dec, not transcribed.]

[7]

8

[Entries for 24-29 Nov 1854]

Nov 29

papa and mamma went to London about Willy having the Scarlet fevour.

[Emma recorded in her diary that William had scarlet fever on 18 May 1855. Darwin wrote to his cousin W. D. Fox on 24 May that Emma had travelled to Rugby to nurse him.]

[7v and 8]

(4

(4) Clisiadæ

Shell unsymmetrical circular formed of six pieces, 4 opercular valves & a Carina & rostrum the right opercular valves capable of being opened; the left attached & forming part of circle, with the carina & rostrum, which do not on right side, do not overlap each other, but lock together by a serrated suture but on left side do not approach each other. Base membranous.

Animal placed in a plane parallel to base.

Branchiæ none. Mouth upper lip not bullate, nor notched nor toothed. Mandibles with single row of teeth

Inner maxillæ, cutting face irregular.

Cirri with three posterior pair on same type.

[8v]

9

[Entries for 30 Nov to 1 Dec, not transcribed.]

[9]

10

[blank]

[9v]

11

[blank]

[in Darwin's hand:] Sessilia

[illeg] alimentary

[10]

 

Sub-class

Orders

Order I.

Tripoda or Tribrachiata no has six feet. ie 3 pairs

Families

 

[Arthrobalanidæ]

Order II

Saxpoda or Sax brachiate Hexpoda no has

Tripoda 12 feet

Apoda

Pedunculata

movements involuntary except adductor

A Inæqualium

no movement [illeg] add Pomarisa from P. [illeg] a li

[10v]

12

[blank]

[11]

13

[blank]

[11v]

& mandibles    inner maxillæ

ls.

segments;

differently constructed form the five

with ant. arms also slight differently

mentary & double, not articulated

on abdominal face of anus.

cle & sometimes round the sack extending under the opercular valves.

ut prehensile antennæ

(alepas?) as Creusia Echnoidæ

or alive

[12]

(2

sion – Pedunculated or sack-formed

scales, with attached by two

-tubes, opening out near centre of surface of attachment

mentary, formed of with consisting of a carina sometimes

two tergal valves & with

often either absent or rudimentary

the parts

calcareous pieces not projecting free.

t & opened

ith voluntary muscles, excepting the

generally furnished with cœa

to post-abdomen & abdomen.

an ovum-fold in rostral portion)

towards each other

t touching

branching

[line excised]

[12v]

14

[blank]

[13]

15

[blank]

[13v]

Monday 4 1853 April

Went a walk Mr huitsens

[in Darwin's hand] the anus

Larvæ in first stage b

prehensile antennæ

Living buried in shells

[14]

(1 Section — Peduncu

(II Arthro

Peduncle & Capitulum for con

bag. Valves represented by

two calceus bars running downwards towards the rostral

margin of sack.)

animal. Branchiæ none:

elongated & transversely articulated.

produced into a long fla

cylindrical pointing upwards

furnished with apodemes

Cirri with only 3 posterior p

seated on dorsal surface

[line excised] or represented

[14v]

16

G H D

(1

[Composite transcription of p. 14 and p. 1v:]

(1 Section – Pedunculated or sack-formed)

(I) [Arthrobalanidæ]

Peduncle & Capitulum for confounded into a sack-formed bag. Valves represented by a toothed calcareous rim with two calcareous bars running downwards towards the rostral

margin of sack.)

animal. Branchiæ none: abldomen post- abdomen narrow elongated & transversely articulated. Mouth with upper lip produced into a long flabelliform moveable organ. Palpi

cylindrical pointing upwards mandibles & inner maxillæ furnished with apodemes

Cirri with only 3 posterior pair present; haunches not articulated. Penis double

seated on dorsal surface anteriorly to anus.

[line excised] or represented by st single style beneath

(2

[Composite of p. 3v and p. 12]

 

Pedunculated Sessile (1) Division, Pedunculated or sack-formed

(2) Lepadidæ

Capitulum usually

(2) Peduncle without calcareous scales, with attached by two cement-glands & two undivided cement-tubes, opening out near centre of surface of attachment

(1) Capitulum with as generally flattened with calc. pieces sometimes absent or rudimentary, formed of with consisting of a carina sometimes rudimentary with two or

tergal valves & with Heptalasmis tt brachial valves often either absent or rudimentary

Calcareous pieces not overlapping each other, with the parts

Upper portion of calcareous pieces not projecting free.

Valves only capable of being shut & opened

Animal Sack, not furnishedwith voluntary muscles, excepting the adductor of tergal valves

Animal lodged obliquely within capitulum – Stomach generally furnished with cœa Branchiæ attached to post-abdomen & abdomen.

no sack-branchiæ (but an ovum-fold in rostral portion)

palpi flattened pointing towards each other not touching

[line excised] bullate [text excised] branching, [mandibles]

[x] (3

[Composite transcription of p. 4 and p. 11v]

or notched

formed, nearly as large as r mandibles         inner maxillæ

without prominent rostrals;

Cirri 6 pair; with haunches having two segments first pair differently constructed form the five posterior. 2d pair with ant. arms also slight differently constructed

Tail absent or rudimentary & double, not articulated

Hermaphrodite or bisexual Penis single, seated beneath on abdominal face of anus.

Ovaria, seated within peduncle & sometimes round the sack extending under the opercular valves.

Larvæ in first stage uniocular without prehensile antennæ

Attached generally to floating or moving objects dead or alive (alepas?) as Creusia Echinoidæ

(4

[Composite transcription of p. 7v and p. 8]

(4) Clisiadæ

Shell unsymmetrical circular formed of six pieces, 4 opercular valves & a Carina & rostrum the right opercular valves capable of being opened; the left attached & forming part of circle, with the carina & rostrum, which do not on right side, do not overlap each other, but lock together by a serrated suture but on left side do not approach each other. Base membranous.

Animal placed in a plane parallel to base.

Branchiæ none. Mouth upper lip not bullate, nor notched nor toothed. Mandibles with single row of teeth

Inner maxillæ, cutting face irregular.

Cirri with three posterior pair on same type.

[5]

[Composite transcription of p. 10 and p. 5v]

 

Sub-class. Cirripedia

Orders

Order I.

Tripoda or Tribrachiata no has six feet. ie 3 pairs

Families

 

[Arthrobalanidæ]

 

Sub-families

 

(1) Anatiferidæ

 

Genera

Arthrobalanus

 

Alepas? 3

Otion 1

Cineras 2

Anatifera 4

Trilasmis 5

Heptalasmis

Order II

Saxpoda or

Sax brachiate Hexpoda no has

Tripoda 12 feet

Apoda

Pedunculata

movements involuntary except adductor

 

(2) Pallicipidæ

Sipho-cepas

[Acalaia]

 

Scalpellum 2

Ibla 3

Smilium? 1

Pollicipes

Mitella

Lithotrya

 

A Inæqualium

no movement [illeg] add Pomarisa from P. [illeg] a li d & aviror unequal or unsymetric

 

 

Clisia

[6]

[Composite transcription of p. 9v and p. 6]

Sessilia

[illeg] alimentary

(1) Chthamalidæ

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catophragmus 1

Octomeris 2

Chthamalus 4

Priolepas 5

Chamailasma 3

Thuralepas 6

Artrolepas 7

(2) Coronulidæ (?)

Coronula

Platylepas

Tubicinella

(3) Balanidæ

A flat or irregular

Balanus

[Diktuobus]

Coria

Elminius

B. Base cup-shaped parasitic in or on corals & sponges

Acasta

Conopea

Adna

Prygoma

Creusia

Nobia

Desaria

35 genera

[7]

[Composite transcription of p. 13v and p. 2]

the anus.

Larvæ in first stage binoculars furnished with

prehensile antennæ.

Living buried in shells.


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