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To E. J. Loomis   4 April 1881

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

April 4th 1881

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged for your kind letter of March 19th— But your information is not new to me, as I read with great interest your first & second published notice on the case.1 It seems to me a very strange one, & different from any other known to me.—

I remain Dear Sir | with much respect. | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
Loomis had sent observations on the spontaneous movements of the fern Asplenium trichomanes (maidenhair spleenwort); see letter from E. J. Loomis, [19 March 1881]. Short pieces by Loomis on these movements were communicated by Asa Gray to the Botanical Gazette 5 (1880): 27 and 43. CD had cited the case in Movement in plants, pp. 257–8 n.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.2 published] interl

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