From Edward Parfitt 9 December 1881
Devon & Exeter Institution
Decr 9th. | 1881
My dear Sir
I thank you very much for you your great kindness in sending me a copy of your very interesting work, I am pleased to see that it has already reached a second edition which shows that it is thoroughly appreciated it is written in so plain and pleasing manner that everyone can understand it.1 I have myself been working at the Natural History of Devon for many years and am publishing the results of my labours through the Devon Association, which is a British Association on a small scale, I send you one or two of my papers that you may see what is being done, I can however only expect to lay the foundation for a much fuller and elaborate work for some one else to work out, The last part published is the Ichneumonidæ a copy of which I have sent.2 The natural history of Euglena viridis I am not aware of its having been worked out before mine was published this may interest you, I would have sent you a copy of my Annelids of Devon but I find I have not one left.3
Again thanking you very kindly | I am with great | regard yours very | truly and much obliged | Edward Parfitt
C Darwin Esq. L.L.D. F.R.S.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.
Parfitt, Edward. 1867. The annelids of Devon, with a resumé of the natural history of the county. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art 2 (1867–8): 203–46.
Parfitt, Edward. 1875. The natural history of Euglena viridis. [Read July 1875.] Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art 7: 387–400.
Parfitt, Edward. 1881. The fauna of Devon. Order Hymenoptera. Family Ichneumonidæ. Section Pupivora. [Read July 1881.] Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art 13: 241–92.
Summary
Thanks for Earthworms [fifth thousand].
Sends two of his papers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13543
- From
- Edward Parfitt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Devon and Exeter Institution
- Source of text
- DAR 174: 16
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13543,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13543.xml