Mr Ch. Darwin wd. be much obliged to the Librarian,2 if he wd. give Bearer the Vol. of the “Zoologist” which has an article dated “October 1849”.3 This is the sole reference given.—
This was the London address of Henrietta and Richard Buckley Litchfield; CD stayed with them from 28 October to 2 November 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
‘On leaves adhering to the casts of worms’ by William Kencely Bridgman was published in the Zoologist 7 (1849): 2576–7. CD later referred to this article in Earthworms, p. 20 n. and p. 33 n.
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0.1 4. Bryanston St] above del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’