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DCP-LETT-12880F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 84)
Summary:

Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12882

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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DCP-LETT-12885

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 111
Summary:

Description of remains of a Roman villa and the worm activity at the site.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12920

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

DCP-LETT-12957

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 88
Summary:

Sends diagrams [missing] showing worm action at two sites.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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