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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:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 45
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 146
Summary:

Has forwarded what he believes to be a new species of Solanum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 September 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project