To Henry Johnson 23 December 1871
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Is unable to accept invitation to Shrewsbury. Is grateful for offer of assistance at Wroxeter.
The weight of dry earth cast up by worms is 161/10 tons per acre annually.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8118A |
To Henry Lee 23 December [1871]
Summary
"I have now looked at both lots of specimens, & I think both are the variable L. anatifera.–– I have disarticulated the right-hand scutal valve in both & the umbonal teeth are plain in both … I have hardly any doubt that both are L. anatifera.––"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Lee |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1995) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8118B |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
| Lee, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
| Lee, Henry | (1) |
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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … their support for natural selection (see Cittadino 1990, pp. 122–3, 128–30). Nägeli had …
