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From:
Thomas Fowell Buxton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 September [1878?]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 402-403
Summary:
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.
Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.
Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.
Has forwarded what he believes to be a new species of Solanum.
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