From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 75
Summary:
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.
Has accepted FD’s correction to chapter seven [of Earthworms].
Weather is bad; sky like lead and the lake as black as ink.
Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.
Glad CD approves of diaheliotropic paper. Reports on experiments with Carex and Yucca. Discusses translation of ‘Växtbook’ from Swedish. Heard some excellent music the previous night.
Passes on an account from Cohen of preparations by Hahn of fossil coral-like structures.
Ernst Haeckel wants to go to Ceylon to examine Medusae and Radiolariae, CD has offered him £100.
Is working on revises of Earthworms.
Has seen a pied flycatcher for the first time.
Discusses observations on circumnutation by FD, Kraus, Wortmann.
Comments on FD’s notions about movement of multicellular and unicellular organisms.
Comments on an interesting letter received from J. B. Hannay [see 13222] which leads CD to speculate on the possibility of organisms inhabiting a red hot earth under great pressure.