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To S. H. Vines   4 February 1882

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

Feb 4th 1882

My dear Mr. Vines

In two or three days I shall put together my notes about the action of C. of Ammonia on roots, & tell you this as it would vex me much not to use any information which you might be willing to communicate to me.1 But the probability is great that your multifarious work has prevented you from making any observations, & in this case do not let me add to the trouble which I have already caused you by answering this note. I will understand silence to mean that you have nothing to communicate.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
Vines had hoped to make observations on the granular cells in roots that resulted from the application of carbonate of ammonia (ammonium carbonate; (NH4)2CO3); see Correspondence vol. 29, letter from S. H. Vines, 24 November [1881]. CD’s paper, ‘Action of carbonate of ammonia on roots’, was read at the Linnean Society on 16 March 1882.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.6 note.] interl above point

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13661A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13661A