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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Has taken OCM to the photographer’s, and is sending photographs to be signed.
Letter of condolence on reading Times report of death of WDF’s daughter.
Writes about [H. R. Hope-]Pinker, who tried to approach CD via the Royal Institution in order to sculpt a bust of him. WS advises against agreeing to sit for him.
Refers to Charles Lagrange, who is working on the same subject as GHD, but in a fundamentally different way.
Rejoices that "Lagrange’s case does not seem very bad".
CD is working hard at dissecting Thalia. Has recovered some handiness with microscope.
Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.
Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.
Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.
Sends drawings of specimens [of Thalia] CD requested.
Thanks GHD for his drawings [of Thalia]. Some parts need attention.
Asks for list of families of sleeping plants. Believes sleep is merely modified circumnutation at a particular time of day.
Porlieria has had no water for some time but shows no sign of flagging.
Describes the response of Thalia flowers to touch.
Writes to say that the point on which he thought GHD’s drawings were mistaken proves to be an error in his own observation.
Enjoyed OCM’s visit.
Sends photographs.
Movement and sensitivity of flower parts; relationship to cross-fertilisation.
Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.
A report has arrived for FD which CD will forward.
Has found examples of small female flowers in Stachys germanica and Ranunculus bulbosus.
Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.
Sends specimens.
Sensitive plants.
Asks TW not to send more information as CD does not expect a new edition of Forms of flowers.
TW’s Stachys case is what he calls gynodioeciousness.
More sleepers from green-house.
Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.
Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.