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Darwin Correspondence Project

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

Footnotes

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).

Bibliography

Darwin, Francis. 1880c. The theory of the growth of cuttings; illustrated by observations on the bramble, Rubus fruticosus. [Read 16 December 1880.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 18 (1881): 406–19.

Summary

Copies of FD’s paper have arrived ["The theory of growth", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18 (1881): 406–19]. Does he want them dispatched?

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13155
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Francis Darwin
Sent from
Down
Postmark
MY 12 81
Source of text
DAR 211: 72
Physical description
ApcS

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13155,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13155.xml

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