To Francis Darwin   12 May [1881]

30 copies of your Paper “Theory of Growth” have just arrived by Rail.—

Shall I send them to you, or if you will send list we will despatch as many as you like.1

C. Darwin

Down

May 12th

Francis was working in the laboratory of Anton de Bary at the Botanical Institute, Straßburg (Strasbourg). His paper, ‘The theory of the growth of cuttings’ (F. Darwin 1880b), was published on 29 April 1881 in the Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13155,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13155