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DCP-LETT-12786

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 27
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Movement in plants; CD’s discovery of a "nervous system without nerves" will have important bearing on origins of animal nervous system.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12838

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 142–5
Summary:

Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.

Praise for Wallace’s Island life

and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.

Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12840F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 83)
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants and says he is enjoying it. Is pleased that a full article appeared in the Times. Will go to Beaulieu soon for worm casts. His gardener calls worms “our civil engineers”. Promised to tell Frank how to make plants bend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5297

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 November 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 104: 142-5
Summary:

Island life. Expresses amazement that ARW should be a Spiritualist.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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