Ordering a copy of a book for his research on vegetable mould [presumably Werner Hoffmeister 1845 (Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer: als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie.].
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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Ordering a copy of a book for his research on vegetable mould [presumably Werner Hoffmeister 1845 (Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer: als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie.].
Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).
Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].
Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.
Asks JM to provide Quarterly Journal of Science with five woodcuts from Climbing plants to illustrate an article, based on that work, by Francis Darwin [see 12462].
Thanks for enclosures.
Remembers Edward Vivian.
Glad to hear of flint tools.
Some essays have arrived for GHD.
Asks John Murray to allow R. F. Charles to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)].
"The enclosed, evidently intended for you, has by a mistake been addressed to me."
Offers advice concerning letter to [William Edward?] Forster requesting Government aid [for potato experiments].
Notes on worm action, and CD’s questions concerning source of nutriment for worms in ACR’s courtyard [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].
Wants WED to collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.
Asks for information about worms.
Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.
Sending EHS (Lord Derby) information about the Niagara affair.
Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.
Letter of introduction for R. B. Litchfield.