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DCP-LETT-12390F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[before 4 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

Requests a list of books.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12706

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
4 Sept 1880
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2)
Summary:

Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.

In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.

Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12707

From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 34–5
Summary:

Observations on earthworms.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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