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DCP-LETT-13445F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 95)
Summary:

Requests a list of CD’s trust securities; he and Sara have finished Worms; asks what he should do with dividend warrant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13449

From:
Lawrence John Jones, 4th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 80
Summary:

Points out an error in Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13450

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sydney Howard Vines
Date:
1 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 75
Summary:

Asks SHV about nature of granular matter formed in root cells of Euphorbia peplus which have been placed in solution of ammonium carbonate.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13448

From:
Foster Barham Zincke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 184: 12
Summary:

Has found prehistoric tools in his orchard that he believes have been buried by the action of earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13454

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
2 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 193–194)
Summary:

Sends corrections ("two bad errata & a blunder") in Earthworms, which is selling well in England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13452

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lawrence John Jones, 4th baronet
Date:
2 Nov 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.599)
Summary:

Thanks LJJ for informing him of error [in Earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13455A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
2 Nov 1881
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 43)
Summary:

Errata discovered in Earthworms are listed. Large sales in England, but this is no indication for France. [See 13510.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13453

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 85
Summary:

Encloses his review of Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13455

From:
Sydney Howard Vines
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 180: 6
Summary:

On the action of ammonium carbonate on plant cells. "Aggregation" of protoplasm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13458

From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 110
Summary:

Encloses statement of US sales of CD’s works and sends a cheque for the balance due to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
3 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for the review [of Earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13456

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Foster Barham Zincke
Date:
3 Nov 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thinks the celts [prehistoric tools] on the pan could not have been buried wholly by worms.

As for large size of Arctic mammals, CD suggests it is an advantage in retaining warmth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13492

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 544
Summary:

Cannot read signature on letter sent via JDH from Lima.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13459

From:
James Frederick Simpson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 167
Summary:

Relates some of his observations on the behaviour and activity of earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13459A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sydney Howard Vines
Date:
4 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 76
Summary:

Thanks SHV for his letter [13455] in answer to his questions about the action of ammonium carbonate on the root cells of Euphorbia peplus. Suggests further observations.

Has read J. Sachs [Textbook of botany, English translation (1875)] and H. A. De Bary [Vergleichende Anatomie (1877)] on milk-tubes. He believes that tubes he has observed in germinating roots of Euphorbia myrsinites are modified milk tubes. Will send a paper on the subject to the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13460

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 523
Summary:

Memorandum: "3500 Worms!!!" sold at annual sale; 117 Movement in plants; 180 "Naturalist" [Journal of researches]; 600 Origin; 320 Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13461

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 164: 104
Summary:

Has received Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
6 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 297
Summary:

Discusses additional printing of Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13467

From:
Anthony Elly Graves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 91
Summary:

Sends his observations on the behaviour of a worm. They seem to indicate some sensory apparatus enabling it to "see".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13462

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lawrence John Jones, 4th baronet
Date:
6 Nov 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.600)
Summary:

Explains source of error [in Earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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