Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.
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Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.
Very pleased to receive CD’s dinner invitation.
Reports case of a girl’s sudden death when a large abscess, formed by a cherry-stone in the vermiform appendix, burst into the peritoneum. Perhaps relevant to Descent [2d ed., pp. 20–1].
Has sent 2d ed. of his book, Werden und Vergehen [1880]. Notes that book was attacked in Prussian House of Deputies by ultramontane critics of Hermann Müller who had recommended it to his pupils.
Asks CD to join in a testimonial supporting James Murie’s candidacy for Librarian of Linnean Society.
Replies to CD’s questions [in 12732] regarding the Abinger Hall excavations.
Torbitt.
Family news.
Edmond Barbier is dead and his widow needs support.
Is having a trough made to try experiments [on ripple-marks].
Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.
Replies to CD’s questions about worms at Abinger ruins.
Indicates portions of Island life that will interest CD. Explanation of the geological climate is the foundation stone of the book.
Hooker’s approval of the theory of Australian and New Zealand floras.
Comments on the progress of Torbitt’s experiments.
Mentions CD’s approval of earlier articles on CD’s works, and requests approval and permission to dedicate to CD a second work on CD’s thought for the International Library of Science and Free-thought.
Édouard Heckel will translate Movement in plants.
On worms and worm-castings.
Notes and replies to queries on worm-castings and worm activity on a rubble-covered road.
Asks CD to clarify his religious position.
Observations on earthworms in Venezuela.
Cost of electrotypes from the woodcuts [in Movement in plants] for French and German editions. Suggests CD charge more than actual cost in order to repay his expenses.
The Baron de Villa Franca would like CD’s evaluation of an enclosed memoir on the culture and propagation of sugar-cane [see 13600].