From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
9 May [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 68
Summary:
CD believes few or none have attributed deaf-mutism to consanguineous marriages.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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CD believes few or none have attributed deaf-mutism to consanguineous marriages.
Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]
Criticises article by TM. "Such a manner of treating the work of other observers did not appear to me the way to encourage truth."
Thanks FL for the Plantago specimens. FL’s view of the stages by which the plant has become gynodioecious seems very probable.
Remits subscription as requested by EWF as the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund [see 11535].
Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.