To James Murie 30 October 1880
4. Bryanston St | Portman Sqe1
Oct. 30th 1880
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.—
Footnotes
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)).
Murie had been appointed librarian of the Linnean Society on 18 October 1880 (see letter from W. S. Dallas, 6 October 1880, n. 2).
‘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.
Bibliography
Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.
Summary
Requests a volume of Zoologist with an article dated Oct 1849.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12783
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Murie; Linnean Society
- Sent from
- London, Bryanston St, 4
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (LL/4)
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12783,” accessed on 28 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12783.xml
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