From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 66
Summary:
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
Sends plant specimens for CD’s examination for genetic affinity with Drosera rotundifolia
Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.
WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".
Sends seeds of plants for CD to elucidate floral anatomy.
Sends his paper on Selliera fertilisation [Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 9 (1876): 542–5]; contrasts it to CD’s description of Leschenaultia [Collected papers 2: 162–5].
Describes the irritability of Glossostigma elatinoides which he concludes is a mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.