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To J. V. Carus   2 November 1881

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Nov. 2d 1881

My dear Sir

Two bad errata & a blunder have been discovered in my worm book1

p. 134, 3 lines from bottom, for 1·9 read ·19

p. 165 5 lines from top, for 83·87 read 8·387

p. 284 6 lines from bottom for (mean 1° 49′) read (mean 2° 45′)

The book is selling largely in England.2

In Haste | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
Carus was preparing the German translation of Earthworms (Carus trans. 1882). The corrections were made in the fourth thousand of the English edition. The correction on p. 284 was also given in an errata sheet inserted in the third thousand (see Freeman 1977).
2
On the sale of Earthworms, see the letter from R. F. Cooke, 5 November 1881.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13454,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13454