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From G. J. Romanes   16 October 1881

Summary

Thinks CD guilty of mock modesty regarding GJR’s review of Earthworms.

Has been working on echinoderms again with J. C. Ewart.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Oct 1881
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 127–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13405

From Francisco de Arruda Furtado   16 October 1881

Summary

Thanks CD for sending Wallace’s book [see 13313]

and for writing to Hooker about FdeAF’s plants. Has written to Hooker to tell him of the plants he is sending and discuss the subject of the cypress trunks.

Thanks CD for his detailed instructions for suggested experiments.

Author:  Francisco de Arruda Furtado
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Oct 1881
Classmark:  Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0032)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13407

From M. C. Stanley   16 October 1881

Summary

Has read Earthworms with great interest. Remembers CD once said, laughing, that he was finding that "worms could revolutionise the world". CD has succeeded in proving greatness of their power.

Author:  Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 162: 171
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13406