From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
27 [July 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.445)
Summary:
Discusses Utricularia sent by JP.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discusses Utricularia sent by JP.
Thanks JP for note.
Sends instructions for mailing Utricularia plants to Down in his absence.
Working on plant physiology; has not strength to discuss difficult subject with anyone.
Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.
Recommends cutting plant stems under water.
Kind of JP to send notes on horses, but will not write on subject again.
Erasmus Darwin has not left his house for three years.
Thanks JP for congratulations on LL.D. [awarded by Cambridge University].
Comments on Rudolf Virchow’s book [Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat (1877)].
On his discovery of ova of Flustra.
"Pray do not call me Dr Darwin."