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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 February 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 13-15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
No summary available.
Has not been able to complete Bohemian edition of Origin because of trip to Africa.
Is collecting zoological evidence for CD’s theory.
Did not wish to imply that some leaves are insensitive to light, only that he could not measure their sensitivity. Contraction of roots seems common.