RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Lubbock, On two new subgenera of Calanidæ. CUL-DAR81.162. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).

Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 329, n5: "See Sir J. Lubbock in 'Annals. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' vol. xi. 1853, pl. i. and x.; and vol. xii. (1853) pl. vii. See also Lubbock in 'Transact. Ent. Soc.' vol. iv. new series, 1856-1858, p. 8."

John Lubbock. 1853. On two new subgenera of Calanidæ. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11, series 2: 202-209.

Lubbock refers to Darwin on p. 202: "Among Mr. Darwin's Crustacea, I discovered a few specimens of a remarkable Entomostracan nearly allied to Labidocera Darwinii, but differing considerably from it in the structure of the right antenna of the male, of the fifth pair of legs, and of the abdomen of the female; and lately, in the collection of the College of Surgeons, through the kindness of Prof. Owen and Prof. Quekett, I found a single male specimen of a third very distinct species belonging to the same group, in which the right antenna of the male is more anomalous than in any form yet described. These two new species will, I believe, eventually form the type of two new genera; for the present, however, it will perhaps be more convenient to consider them subgenera of Labidocera."

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