From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
4 Sept 1880
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2)
Summary:
Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.
In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.
Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project