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Cancelled: duplicate of FL-1392.xml.
Wants HD to observe earthworm activity at Roman antiquities of Chedworth and Cirencester.
Thanks for all Horace has done for him and for his ship-shape account. Hopes Horace has charged him enough. There will be less to divide amongst them, which seems to please Frank.
Sends an enclosure [a statement of CD’s finances and estimate of the inheritance his children may expect] for HD and Ida to read; CD very pleased to be able to leave his children comfortably provided for.
Arrangements regarding HD’s allowances.
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
Gives advice regarding a house.
Observations on earthworms.
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.
CD is glad birth [of Erasmus Darwin] is over and that Ida has borne it so well.
Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].
Congratulates Horace on passing his "Little Go".
Sends notes on waxy secretion on leaves for F. M. Balfour; cannot procure any more Dionaea.
CD is glad Horace has done "pretty well" in his examination.
Smith and Elder will publish new edition of Coral reefs [1874]; thanks HD for aid.
Found worm-casts atop a 2555–foot hill.
Describes the occurrence of earthworms and the signs of earthworm activity in the neighbourhood.
Observations on earthworm activity in old furrows on a hillside.
The occurrence and prevention of scale in boilers.
Anxious to hear Murray’s reply [to CD’s letter 9598].
Report on three rare beetles they have recently taken in Down parish.