From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 345
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks CD for a copy of Earthworms.
Requests interview to get CD’s views on stages in evolution of the eye for a talk he is to give at a health congress. [Address to working men & women, 17 December 1881.] in Transactions of the Brighton health congress
Has read Earthworms and suggests, as an architect, that leaf linings protect worm burrow from the worm’s rapid movements.
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.