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DCP-LETT-13390

From:
Julius Wiesner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 99
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Earthworms.

Responds to CD’s comments on his book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13390F

From:
Edwin Ray Lankester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1881
Source of text:
ML 2: 215
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms. Very proud to see his drawing in the book.

Does CD know of experiments with sea water on earthworms?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 170
Summary:

Thanks TLB for the collection of his writings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13392

From:
Christian Andreas Victor (Victor) Hensen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 146
Summary:

Thanks CD for Earthworms. Not convinced that worms derive nutrition from eating soil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13393

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 32
Summary:

More on proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13394

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
12 Oct 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Owes much to Birmingham and great honour conferred on him, but cannot write what RLT wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13395

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 36
Summary:

Will be home on Saturday.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13396

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
13 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 33
Summary:

Says that salt water kills earthworms.

Interested in ERL’s study of worm anatomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13397

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 152
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13398

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.598)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for his review of Earthworms [Nature 24 (1881): 553–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13399

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 521
Summary:

Has sent copies [of Earthworms] to Annals & Magazine of Natural History and to Popular Science Review. If W. S. Dallas edits both, he will have two copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13400

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 33
Summary:

Further details on sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13400F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[14 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 24
Summary:

Arrangements for the disposal of the contents of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London.

The text on EAD’s gravestone.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13401

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 95
Summary:

Sends text of the gravestone inscription [for E. A. Darwin] and details of arrangements for removal of furniture from Queen Anne St.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13402

From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 180: 26
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms.

HdeV is studying the causes of variation in plants and is very interested in Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13403

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 72
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13404

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 15 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 96
Summary:

Has sent the inscription [for E. A. Darwin’s gravestone]. If CD approves, will he forward it to G. S. ffinden [Vicar of Downe Parish] and William [Darwin].

Contributor:
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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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