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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 September 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 247
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Darwin Family Letters
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Requests a list of books.
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.
Observations on earthworms.
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