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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.
Sends back proofs. Praises CD for calm treatment of Mivart. Looks at duck’s mouth. Asks whether CD has seen Snow’s article in the Spectator.
Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.
Worm action at Stonehenge.
Sends comments on his diagram of Stonehenge. Will go to Beaulieu.
Sends dirt residue of chalk samples for David Forbes to examine.
Received copy of Origin 6th ed. Has had trouble with worm measurements at Winchester.
Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.
Experiments with Mimosa.
Experiments on Mimosa; effects of immersion.
Experiments on Mimosa.
Has visited Alford and Beesby.
Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.
WED encloses a letter from H. M. Wilkinson about Utricularia and sundew.
H. M. Wilkinson has examined bladders of Utricularia; doubts that they absorb or digest insects.
H. M. Wilkinson describes dragonfly trapped by sundew [Drosera].
Will write to Strickland. Asks whether name has already been put down for Athenaeum.