From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 and 12 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 36–7
Summary:
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
Found worm-casts atop a 2555–foot hill.
Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.
About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.
A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.
CD is glad birth [of Erasmus Darwin] is over and that Ida has borne it so well.
Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".
Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.