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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[25 July 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 112
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Idea has struck him that might be of use to CD: that rapid changes during growth as in some plants and in insect metamorphosis may bear analogy to the slower changes resulting in the formation of new varieties.
Is forwarding the writing machine to Carl Semper.
Is glad FD has taken up his old friends, the twiners.
Hopes to get heliotropic aerial roots from J. D. Hooker. Asks FD to find out whether any moulds or roots are apheliotropic. Is puzzled by heliotropism in subterranean roots.
CD named corresponding member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Science. [See 11634.]