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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[5 March 1888?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 305
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 16 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 168
Summary:

Wants some more rubber bands for his wrist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 [Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 156
Summary:

Discusses a book

and the "splendid news about the elections".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 157
Summary:

Forwards John Lubbock’s letter and hopes WED might influence the men "for the sake of science".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 [June 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 159
Summary:

Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].

Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
18 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 160
Summary:

Wants WED to collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[19 July 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 161
Summary:

Writes about gravel deposits [at Southampton] and sends a James Geikie letter [12655?] on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 162
Summary:

Writes about worm-castings; tells WED not to bother with samples from Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 [Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 137
Summary:

Asks WED to observe whether worms consistently draw acacia leaves into their burrows with a particular end first.

Will soon know whether he will need worm-castings from Beaulieu.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
30 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 163
Summary:

Asks whether WED can collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 164
Summary:

Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.

Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss B.D25)
Summary:

Worm-castings from [Roman] ruins at Brading contained bits of tiles or bricks. Obliged for WED’s trouble about Brading castings.

Movement in plants well received in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 170
Summary:

Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.

Discusses investments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 171
Summary:

Discusses earthworm activity

and animal grazing on slopes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 172
Summary:

Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society

and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 173
Summary:

Discusses investments,

earthworms,

and an article by Romanes [see 13029].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[27 Feb 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 177
Summary:

Discusses some business matters

and E. A. Darwin’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 174
Summary:

Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 175
Summary:

Discusses investments.

The action of worms when drawing leaves into their burrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 176
Summary:

Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.

Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".

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