From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[27 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 100
Summary:
Thanks to Times review, Murray needs 500 more copies [of Movement in plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks to Times review, Murray needs 500 more copies [of Movement in plants].
Has heard of flood from which Fritz Müller escaped. Has he lost books, microscope, apparatus? Offers £50 or £100.
Will send copy of Movement in plants.
Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].
Movement in plants has shown him CD’s research method: 1. Find a fundamental idea of great generality (circumnutation); 2. Pursue it everywhere with observations and experiment; 3. Conduct special observations which undo any doubt of generality.
Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].
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