From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B102
Summary:
Sends a dividend.
Recommends a novel but is sure Emma will not like it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends a dividend.
Recommends a novel but is sure Emma will not like it.
Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.
Thanks for letter about Trifolium
and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.
Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].
Response to Wallace’s article ["The colours of animals and plants", Macmillan’s Mag. (Sept 1877)] on sexual colours and "voluntary" sexual selection.