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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 some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.
Very pleased to receive CD’s dinner invitation.
Glad GK will come. But cannot talk long to anyone.
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.
Insists that EK take the profits from the English edition of Erasmus Darwin. EK’s essay is the valuable part of the book; CD’s is mainly gossip.
Edmond Barbier is dead and his widow needs support.
Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.
Questions the exact location of rooms and trenches at Abinger excavation [for Earthworms].
Asks her to look for worm-castings in heath. Thinks heath conditions may be unfavourable. CD is sure Lucy would look with her, from her well-known affection for worms. Asks what sort of lantern Lucy used.
Discusses how fruits of lime-trees arranged themselves in a ripple-like way on a flooded walk.
Is having a trough made to try experiments [on ripple-marks].
Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.
Thanks THF for notes on Abinger excavation. Asks for more castings.
Thanks for the bananas.
Replies to CD’s questions about worms at Abinger ruins.
Acknowledges receipt of R-LM’s book on parasitic worms. [Perhaps Essai monographique sur les cysticerques (1880) in vol. 3 of the Travaux of the Institut Zoologique de Lille.]
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.
