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To Francis Darwin   15 [July 1878]1

M. Marc Micheli has sent you a nor of Bib. Univ. Archives Sc. Phy & Nat. containing long report of Phys. Bot. for 1877.— seems very good & full, with report of your work.— I will keep it for a week to read & then send it you.2

I send Nature see to Thompson on strains & sent last week.3

15th—

AL incomplete?

1
The month and year are established by the reference to the Nature article on strains (see n. 3, below).
2
Micheli’s article, ‘Revue des principales publications de physiologie végétale en 1877’ (Review of the principal publications on plant physiology in 1877; Micheli 1878), was published in Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles, 15 April 1878. Micheli referred to F. Darwin 1878a and 1877b (see Micheli 1878, pp. 41–2, 44–5).
3
An abstract of a paper by George Howard Darwin (G. H. Darwin 1878b) in which George referred to William Thomson’s investigation of the bodily tides of an elastic sphere appeared in Nature, 4 July 1878, pp. 265–6. George’s work focused on calculations of the strains of an elastic solid and the flow of a viscous fluid.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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