From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
1 Aug 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Much obliged for account of cleistogamic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Much obliged for account of cleistogamic flowers.
Sends thanks for a newspaper abstract; will be pleased to see the paper [probably "Economy as a phonetic force", Trans. Am. Philological Assoc.8 (1877): 123–34] when printed.
Sends his own ["Biographical sketch of an infant"], saying it is of little value, the observations having been made before recent advances in philology.
Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].
Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.
Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus
and his own experiments on Drosera.
Comments on GJR’s paper in Nature.
Asks about sleep movements of Erythrina crista-galli. Comments on movements of Averrhoa.