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DCP-LETT-12128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
28 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 59
Summary:

Discusses the movements of radicles. His observations show that sensitivity to touch resides in the root tip and he believes that sensitivity to gravity governing geotropic responses is also in the root tip. Would much like to convert Julius von Sachs to his ideas on radicle movement.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12128F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
30 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 49
Summary:

Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Alfred Pitman; Royal College of Physicians
Date:
17 June 1879
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D11)
Summary:

Asks for directions on how to behave at ceremony conferring the Baly Medal.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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