From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [April–May 1865?]
Summary
Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4370 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [15 June 1872?]
Summary
Worm-casts on a ridged hill.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 June 1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7345 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … C. Wedgwood to Elizabeth Darwin, [7 March 1872 or later] ). CD had first sent out enquiries concerning furrows and other forms of ridges in 1871, but most of his requests were made early in 1872 as part of his investigation into the transformation of landscape through the action of earthworms (see for example Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Francis Wedgwood, 4 January 1871 , and letter to Archibald Geikie, 27 December [1871] , and this volume, letter from W. E. Darwin, [1 January 1872] , and letter …
To L. C. Wedgwood 21 January [1872]
Summary
Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8171 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood, 20 January [1872]. See postcard from L. C. Wedgwood, 20 January [1872]. See Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Henry Johnson, 23 December 1871 , and Earthworms , pp. 221–8. Johnson, a Shrewsbury schoolfriend of CD’s, was in charge of the excavation of the Roman ruins at Wroxeter, and offered to make observations for CD. CD also refers to William Erasmus Darwin ; see letter from W. E. …
From L. C. Harrison to Emma Darwin [before 1 July 1874]
Summary
Sends reference on Pinguicula [for CD].
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9525 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … C. Harrison, [1 July 1874] . Harrison’s father was Josiah Wedgwood III . The quotation is from the second or small edition of English botany by James Edward Smith and James Sowerby (J. E. Smith and Sowerby [1832]–46, 1: 17). Pinguicula is the genus of butterworts; CD had been performing experiments to determine their digestive ability (see, for example, letter …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Harrison, L. C. | |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
