From Francis Darwin to Édouard Heckel 26 November 18801
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[Signed autograph letter dictated by his father, with indications on the movement of flowers conveyed to Heckel;2 it is the Council of the Royal Society that elects members and it is not customary to recommend someone.3]
Heckel was supervising the translation Movement in plants into French (Heckel trans. 1882; he had asked CD about the movement of corollas, stamens, and pistils in his letter of 23 September 1880.