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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 83)
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants and says he is enjoying it. Is pleased that a full article appeared in the Times. Will go to Beaulieu soon for worm casts. His gardener calls worms “our civil engineers”. Promised to tell Frank how to make plants bend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 110
Summary:

Observations on worms’ pulling leaves into their burrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project