From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 24
Summary:
Sends a paper on denudation ["On modern denudation", Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow 3 (1871): 153–90].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 17
Summary:
Sends description and measurements of the 18th century courtyard pavement of his house, the stones of which have sunk as a result of earthworm action [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 48)
Summary:
Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 25
Summary:
Action of earthworms and weather on surface soil of old earthworks and fortifications.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 64
Summary:
Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 5
Summary:
After reading Descent sends two instances of men and animals using the same muscles to express similar emotional states.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 6
Summary:
Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project