THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].
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THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].
Counted 40 worm-holes after rain; four or five in the wall.
CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.
Sends two papers on Roman ruins at Cirencester, which he asks CD to return.
Worm observations.
Sends "worm journal" – observations of earthworm activity at Abinger.
Thanks THF for the diary of worm activity at Abinger site.
Hive-bees captured in tubes of nectary of Tritoma. Seems a maladaptation of the bees.
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".