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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
31 December 1880
Source of text:
DAR 258: 666
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Sends diagrams [missing] showing worm action at two sites.
Discusses Chinese lions at Fontainebleau; considers their appearance may indicate an ancient knowledge of some sort of evolutionary connection between lions and toads.
Signs a certificate sent to him by CD [see 12954].
Sends CD a ticket to his lecture on 25 February, in which he will propose that the mode by which the excitable parts of plants influence other parts at a distance is essentially the same as in the excitable structure of animals, contrary to the views of Hermann Munk and Julius Sachs.
Interested in chapters 6 and 7 of Movement in plants.
Sending a Royal Society certificate of candidacy for his son Francis.
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