From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 227, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 179)
Summary:
On THH’s Lectures to working men.
Work by Ferdinand J. Cohn on the contractile tissue of plants ["Über contractile Gewebe im Pflanzenreich" Abh. Schlesischen Ges. Vaterl. Cult. 1 (1861)] seems important. CD has come to the conclusion that there must be some substance in plants analogous to the supposed diffused nervous matter in lower animals.
[Part of P.S. missing from original.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project