To A. C. Ramsay 21 December [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]
Dec. 21
My dear Ramsay
If you are able to judge of amount of subsidence of the flag-stones, please observe whether anything indicates that the subsidence is not due to their having been originally laid on yielding earth.—2 Are they continued under cover where worms would not act? About what sized squares are the stones? What is age of your House? I think I understood that you had often actually seen worm-castings over the joints.— I have written to Prof. Geikie.3
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
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.
Summary
Requests further information on subsidence of flagstones because of action of worms.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8116
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Andrew Crombie Ramsay
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead
- Source of text
- DAR 261.9: 6 (EH 88205979)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8116,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8116.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
