From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 59, DAR 209.8: 151
Summary:
Has been investigating nutational movements of climbing plants; comments on the opinions of Julius von Wiesner and Julius Sachs. Remarks on the sleep movements of certain plants and the mechanism of tendril curvature. Is experimenting with Porlieria.
Has visited K. G. Semper’s laboratory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project