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DCP-LETT-12814

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.574)
Summary:

Comments on hybridisation; cites authorities. Sends book by Wilhelm Olbers Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].

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DCP-LETT-12816

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
14 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks for information on the slope of ground at Worcester.

CD’s passion now is worms.

Sends Movement in plants. While correcting proof, CD remembered an old article by HHJ, which he regrets not including.

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DCP-LETT-12818

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
14 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 184
Summary:

Comments on her new book [Life and her children (1880)]. "… you have treated evolution with much dexterity and truthfulness".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12819

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/31)
Summary:

Surprising thought that diseases of plants should illustrate human pathology.

Will recommend A. B. Frank’s article in a German encyclopedia, on diseases of plants, to Francis Darwin.

Gives JP a good case of regeneration in plants – the radicle of the common bean. That plants have little power of regeneration is not difficult to understand by anyone who believes in Pangenesis, "if such a man exists … There is reason to think that my imaginary gemmules have small power of passing from cell to cell."

Refers to early experiments in which he tried to produce galls in plants by injecting poisons.

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