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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.576)
Summary:

Comments on papers by Francis Darwin.

Suggests methods for growing seedlings for experiments involving light.

Comments on GJR’s observations on monkey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
25 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.577)
Summary:

Recalls student days at Cambridge and microscope JMH gave him.

Discusses his children, health, and work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project