Ɛpsilon

From W. C. McIntosh   9 October 1881

Murthly. | N.B.

9 Oct 81.

My dear Sir,

I have just received your kind present of your new volume on the Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms—for which I send sincere thanks.1 I shall read it most carefully on my return from Univr work in Edinr., & shall write you about any points that occur to me. The subject is very interesting & suggestive, &—in your hand—will be exhaustively dealt with.

We raised £1450 in connection with the Extension-scheme (Perth Museum), & more will come in!. I shall send you a Catalogue of the Vertebrates2

With many thanks for your kind remembrance. | Yours very truly | W. McIntosh.

1
McIntosh’s name is on CD’s presentation list for Earthworms (see Appendix IV).
2
McIntosh was one of the main supporters of the extension plan for the Perth Museum through the Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society. A notice about subscriptions for the extension had appeared in Nature, 7 July 1881, p. 226. For more on the extension and the competing Perthshire Museum of Natural History that opened in 1881, see Finnegan 2009, pp. 80–2.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13382,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13382