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Darwin did extensive work on barnacles, and wrote to his cousin WD Fox in 1852:
But in 1855, he felt nostalgia for them, and wrote to Fox:
I grew up on the northeast coast of the US. All the boats that sat for even a couple of weeks at a time would get covered in barnacles. Fuck barnacles, right?
I live by the northwest coast now. All of the boats that sit for a couple of weeks get covered in mussels. Fuck mussels, am I right? (And you can't even eat them because of where they're growing!)