From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
13 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 6–7)
Summary:
Discusses GJR’s idea of subjecting plants to brief flashes of light.
Hoped to see GJR in London, but was too tired.
Delighted his book Movement in plants has interested GJR.
Asks if GJR has example of dogs calling on each other to go hunting; there is a case half a mile away.
Has heard that Samuel Butler has abused him in his latest book, but he does not intend to look at it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project