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DCP-LETT-4897

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 190
Summary:

Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4912

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
8 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12)
Summary:

Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.

Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?

Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.

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