From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 345
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Brudenell Carter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 51
Summary:
Requests interview to get CD’s views on stages in evolution of the eye for a talk he is to give at a health congress. [Address to working men & women, 17 December 1881.] in Transactions of the Brighton health congress
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Henry Chamberlain
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 130
Summary:
Has read Earthworms and suggests, as an architect, that leaf linings protect worm burrow from the worm’s rapid movements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 86
Summary:
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project