In response to CD’s query, discusses sleep movements of plants. Recommends papers on subject.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
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In response to CD’s query, discusses sleep movements of plants. Recommends papers on subject.
Asks for identification of an Oxalis flower.
Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.
Asks for information about his grandfather’s influence on medical practice, to be used in his preface to Erasmus Darwin [1879, p. 107].
Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].
Thanks for information about Erasmus Darwin and for lending journal.
Admires EH’s Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Virchow’s conduct is shameful.
There is a hyacinth growing upside down in Hankinson’s garden. Sends picture of it. Leslie Stephen knows of no worthwhile sources of information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Thanks FG for an extract [about Dr Erasmus Darwin?].
Will see CD in Worthing next week.
Has had an account of his experiments published. Sends CD some specimens of seedlings and tubers.
Thanks EAW for assistance. Describes plans for writing preliminary sketch [for Ernst Krause’s Erasmus Darwin].
Relates more family history and anecdotes concerning Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Forwards a letter [missing] from her cousin relating to Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Thanks his cousin for lending two letters [to be used in Ernst Krause’s biography of Erasmus Darwin, their grandfather].