Reference
HG12/8/1
Title
To Henry Hugh Higgins from William. B. Carpenter, University of London
Date free text
13 Jan 1876
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From: 1876 To: 1876
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Did not reply earlier as had no information, "all our dredging gear having been provided by the Admiralty". Has no experience of the ""Trawl"". Is sorry to hear Hen. has had to give up deep dredging for want of donkey engine but suggests method by which engine of steam launch can be converted, "as was done with those of the Challenger" This would enable Henry to dredge far enough to get specimins from coral reefs as Governor Rawson of Barbados has. Is amused at his sons modest request. At present son is in Wurzburg under Semper J. Rolliker and working on anatomy of crinoids.
[D.N.B. CARPENTER, Wm. Ben., (1813-1885) naturalist; eldest son of Lant Carpenter; apprenticed to a physician; visited West Indies; studied medicine in London and (1835) in Edingburgh; lecturer at Bristol Medical School; published papers on physiology, 1837, and 'Principles of...Physiology', 1839; professor of physiology in London, 1844; professor of forensic medicine , University College, London; registrar of the University of London, 1857-79; an unwearied investigator in the sciences of zoology, botany and mental physiology. 1843-71; contributed much to scientific journals and encyclopaedias]
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