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Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.

Discusses investments.

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Discusses earthworm activity

and animal grazing on slopes.

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Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society

and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.

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Discusses investments,

earthworms,

and an article by Romanes [see 13029].

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Discusses some business matters

and E. A. Darwin’s health.

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Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.

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Discusses investments.

The action of worms when drawing leaves into their burrows.

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Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.

Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".

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Uncle Erasmus is ill.

Thanks WED for his trouble about the cottages.

He has signed the note to Higgins.

CD has used WED’s Rhododendron case in Earthworms [p. 69].

Is using paper triangles in experiments on intelligence of worms.

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Discusses his investments.

P.S. on earthworms.

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Discusses his investments.

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Reports on a luncheon of scientific savants at which the Crown Prince of Germany [and Prince of Wales?] were present.

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Discusses financial affairs.

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[Empty cover.]

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About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.

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A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.

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Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".