From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 22
Summary:
Thanks for Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus paper.
Dislikes the word "protoplasm", because improved microscopes will uncover more fundamental substances. Also "plasma" merely hides the ignorance of modern chemists.
Expects waxy, glaucous-leaved plants to be most frequent in dry temperate climates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project