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DCP-LETT-13405

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1881
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 127–8
Summary:

Thinks CD guilty of mock modesty regarding GJR’s review of Earthworms.

Has been working on echinoderms again with J. C. Ewart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13406

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 171
Summary:

Has read Earthworms with great interest. Remembers CD once said, laughing, that he was finding that "worms could revolutionise the world". CD has succeeded in proving greatness of their power.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13407

From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0032)
Summary:

Thanks CD for sending Wallace’s book [see 13313]

and for writing to Hooker about FdeAF’s plants. Has written to Hooker to tell him of the plants he is sending and discuss the subject of the cypress trunks.

Thanks CD for his detailed instructions for suggested experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-10-16

From:
Carl Falck
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 October 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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