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DCP-LETT-10749

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Veitch & Sons
Date:
[before 11 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 96
Summary:

Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]

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FVM-77-08-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
11 August 1877
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

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DCP-LETT-11103

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1877
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 57
Summary:

Believes in differentiated nerve-tracts [in Medusa] because of experiment in which contractile waves blocked. [See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93.] Did not know author of MS was Miss Lawless. Describes experiment on contractile waves in Aurelia. Also studying starfish.

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DCP-LETT-11102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 85–6)
Summary:

Thanks for plants.

Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.

WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.

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