From A. N. Hopkins 9 April 1882
110, Bristol Road, | Edgbaston | Birmingham,
April 9 1882
Alfred N. Hopkins | To
Dear Sir
I have just been reading your book on Earthworms. I do not know whether the following fact is of any value or importance as however everything has a significance for you which other people cannot apprehend I trust I may be pardoned the liberty I take in addressing you
Some three years since the Church Road in this suburb was covered as to the Footpath with Asphalt. The Road has several houses in it fronted by carriage drives & gardens
Walking to Town one damp morning a few weeks or so after the Asphalt had been finished ⟨I⟩ count⟨ed⟩ ⟨ ⟩ three or four hundred eart⟨hworms lying⟩ dead upon it the ⟨Road⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ⟨ab⟩out half a mile long.1
Since that time being I occasionally ⟨se⟩e two or three worms dead, as the others were but never any quantity.
I am dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Alfred N Hopkins
Charles Darwin Esq LLD FRS &c.
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
Sends fact about earthworms.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13765
- From
- Alfred Nind Hopkins
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Birmingham
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 267
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp damaged
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13765,” accessed on
