From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 10
Summary:
Lists observations he would like FD to make on the dried species of Desmodium at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Lists observations he would like FD to make on the dried species of Desmodium at Kew.
Wants FD to look at the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium. CD has "a wild hypothesis that the little leaflets may be tendrils reconverted into leaflets".
Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller’s microscope in Paris.
Observations on the leaves of Desmodium. Most are trifoliate; none has tendrils. Gives some comments from Hooker.