Discusses possible investments.
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Discusses possible investments.
Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.
Discusses investments.
Passes on legal advice.
He is buying a portable fire engine, and suggests one is purchased for Down. Wishes to join the Geological Society of London. Is eager to hear Leslie Stephen’s opinion.
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.
Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society
and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.
Discusses his election to the Geological Society, worm researches, GHD’s travels, investments,G J Romanes on Samuel Butler, the snow, politics.
Discusses investments,
earthworms,
and an article by Romanes [see 13029].
Discusses some business matters
and E. A. Darwin’s health.
Worm observations.
Discusses possible investments.
Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.
Discusses investments.
The action of worms when drawing leaves into their burrows.
Reports his observations on numbers of Rhododendron leaves found buried [by earthworms].
Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.
Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".
Brokers have purchased Leeds Corporation Stock.
Discusses the possible rebuilding of a pair of cottages on CD’s farm at Beesby, Lincolnshire.
Uncle Erasmus is ill.
Thanks WED for his trouble about the cottages.
He has signed the note to Higgins.
CD has used WED’s Rhododendron case in Earthworms [p. 69].
Is using paper triangles in experiments on intelligence of worms.
Cannot write so is using Lily as secretary. Proud to be member of Geological Society. Sends observations of rhododendron leaves. Could not find piece of ploughed land. Has proved Josiah Wedgwood III’s death in North Eastern Railway Company. Taking care because head hurts.