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DCP-LETT-12840F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 83)
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants and says he is enjoying it. Is pleased that a full article appeared in the Times. Will go to Beaulieu soon for worm casts. His gardener calls worms “our civil engineers”. Promised to tell Frank how to make plants bend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12848

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

DCP-LETT-12861

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 110
Summary:

Observations on worms’ pulling leaves into their burrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12876

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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