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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Asks what position the sub-peduncles assume when the main flower peduncle of Oxalis is tied so as to be horizontal.
Asks whether FD can find some plants at Kew for CD to trace epinastic and hyponastic movements.
Instructs FD to make some observations on movement in Trifolium and Impatiens. Sends some seeds to be sown.
Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.
He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?
Suggests experiment to detect salts deposited on surface of leaves.
Wants FD to have another go at horse-chestnut radicles.
Many thnks for the pelargonium letter.
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.
Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.