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To C.Darwin.) Pen-y-bryn, St.Peter's Road, Croydon.

Nov. 21st. 1880.

My dear Darwin

Many thanks for your new book containing your wonderful series of experiments & observations on the movements of plants. I have read the introduction and conclusion, which shows me the importance of the research as indicating the common basis of the infinitely varied habits and mode of growth of plants. The whole subject becomes thus much simplified, though the nature of the basic vitality which lends to such wonderful results remains as mysterious as ever. Yours very faithfully Alfred R. Wallace

To C.Darwin.) Pen-y-bryn, St.Peter’s Road, Croydon. Nov. 21st. 1880.

My dear Darwin

Many thanks for your new book¹ containing your wonderful series of experiments & observations on the movements of plants. I have read the introduction and conclusion, which shows me the importance of the research as indicating the common basics of the infinitely varied habits and made of growth of plants. The whole subject becomes thus much simplified, though the nature of the basic vitality which leads to such wonderful results remains as mysterious as ever.

Yours very faithfully | Alfred. R. Wallace [signature]

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Pen-y-bryn, St. Peter's Road, Croydon. November 21, 1880.

My dear Darwin, — Many thanks for your new book containing your wonderful series of experiments and observations on the movements of plants. I have read the introduction and conclusion, which shows me the importance of the research as indicating the common basis of the infinitely varied habits and mode of growth of plants. The whole subject becomes thus much simplified, though the nature of the basic vitality which leads to such wonderful results remains as mysterious as ever. —Yours very faithfully, | ALFRED R. WALLACE.