Asks whether WED can collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.
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Asks whether WED can collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.
Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.
Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].
Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.
Discusses investments.
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society
and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.
Discusses investments,
earthworms,
and an article by Romanes [see 13029].
Discusses some business matters
and E. A. Darwin’s health.
Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.
Discusses investments.
The action of worms when drawing leaves into their burrows.
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".
Discusses his investments.
P.S. on earthworms.
Reports on a luncheon of scientific savants at which the Crown Prince of Germany [and Prince of Wales?] were present.
Discusses financial affairs.
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
Seeks investment advice.
Asks for investment advice.
Discusses domestic affairs and gives some advice on manners.
Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
Thanks for his letter; hopes he is managing all right [at Rugby?].
Writes of the extension to Down House.