From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
27 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 270
Summary:
Will send copy of Movement in plants.
Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Will send copy of Movement in plants.
Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].
Sends his book [Naturwissenschaftliche Thatsachen und Probleme. Populäre Vorträge (1880)].
Anxious to receive Movement in plants because CD’s methods may be applicable to his experiments on the earliest movements of animal embryos.
CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.