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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
15 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68
Summary:

Is resuming the study of worm-casts as he believes they will bear on the denudation of land. Requests specific information on the relative number, size, and manner of deterioration of worm-casts in India.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
15 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69
Summary:

JS’s valuable observations on worms in India along with Asa Gray’s in the United States confirm CD’s opinion that worms work in the same way all over the world. Requests further information on the subject.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
12 Aug 1872
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69
Summary:

Acknowledges a box of worm-casts from India and a bottle of worms in spirits. There is no memorandum.

His book on expression is finished and includes valuable information from JS.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
26 Oct 1872
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69
Summary:

Acknowledges JS’s excellent letter of 25 September. May CD assume that the gigantic worm-casts were nearly circular when measured before the rain?

That a medical man should always have the place of superintendent seems a piece of jobbery.

Mentions [George] King.

JS’s thin paper renders some words on other side almost illegible.

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