From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 105: A108
Summary:
Thanks CD for Earthworms and comments on it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Walbank Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 7
Summary:
On the effects of a mother’s imagination on a new-born child. Reports that a hen, startled by an alarm clock, laid eggs with clock faces on them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Carmichael McIntosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 14
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 188
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Condolences on death of Erasmus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 261
Summary:
Sends a paper by Arnold von Lasaulx ["Ueber sogenannten kosmischen Staub", Mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen 3 (1880–1): 517–32. HNM does not believe in meteoric dust, which CD takes for granted in Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project