The culmination of 8 years of work on Barnacles this complete account of the living members of Cirripedia this (along with Volume II the Fossil Cirripedia) is Darwin's only contribution to formal Taxonomy and was the definitive work on the Infraclass, standing for decades after Darwin's death as such. Originally published for the Ray society a mere 800 copies were produced, 50 more than there were members of the society.[1]
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