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DCP-LETT-13023F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 172
Summary:

Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society

and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13033F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 87)
Summary:

Discusses his election to the Geological Society, worm researches, GHD’s travels, investments,G J Romanes on Samuel Butler, the snow, politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13034

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 173
Summary:

Discusses investments,

earthworms,

and an article by Romanes [see 13029].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13035F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 88)
Summary:

Worm observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13035G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 89)
Summary:

Discusses possible investments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13036

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 174
Summary:

Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13037

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 175
Summary:

Discusses investments.

The action of worms when drawing leaves into their burrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13039

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 112/1
Summary:

Reports his observations on numbers of Rhododendron leaves found buried [by earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 176
Summary:

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".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13054F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 90)
Summary:

Brokers have purchased Leeds Corporation Stock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13055F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 91)
Summary:

Discusses the possible rebuilding of a pair of cottages on CD’s farm at Beesby, Lincolnshire.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0509

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 February 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13035

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[27 Feb 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 177
Summary:

Discusses some business matters

and E. A. Darwin’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0508

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 Mar 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 141
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13141F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Mar 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 101)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13141G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 102)
Summary:

Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13144

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 179
Summary:

Discusses his investments.

P.S. on earthworms.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13148F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 92)
Summary:

Discusses possible investments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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