From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 49
Summary:
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
CD cannot find his pincers and other tools for microscopical dissection. Does FD know where he should look?
Hopes FD will feel better after "so complete a change" [trip to North Africa].
Sends his love to George.
Bernard gets more charming every day.
CD has been put on a committee for a memorial fund for W. K. Clifford.
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
Is increasing FD’s allowance.
Has begun his chapter on sleep of plants [for Movement in plants].
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.