RECORD: Lankester, Ray E. [1882].06.03. [Recollection of Darwin in the letter to Francis Darwin]. CUL-DAR198.123. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2021. RN1

NOTE: Lankester's recollections of Darwin can be found here:

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F2113

Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.


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Dear Darwin,

The enclosed may also be of value to you. Your father says he could not bear to see the worms wriggling with which he angled so took the trouble to put them into salt water. This is one of the little bits of evidence of his kindness.

Yours ever

E Ray Lankester


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