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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
4 Sept 1880
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2)
Summary:

Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.

In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.

Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 29
Summary:

Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].

Has met Horace Darwin and wife;

climbed Matterhorn.

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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 27
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Movement in plants; CD’s discovery of a "nervous system without nerves" will have important bearing on origins of animal nervous system.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
12 Jan 1881
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/3)
Summary:

Asks FMB to translate letter from Ernst Krause [answering criticisms by Samuel Butler] and to send it to Nature [ "Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler" 23 (1881): 288].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 28
Summary:

Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
28 Jan 1881
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/4)
Summary:

Thanks FMB for translation of Ernst Krause’s letter for Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
6 July 1881
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L DC AL 1/21)
Summary:

Comments on FMB’s book [Treatise on comparative embryology, 2 vols. (1880–1)]. Had already purchased copy. Could second copy be sent to someone else? Fritz Müller?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 30
Summary:

Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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