To George Henslow 16 April [1866]1
Down Bromley Kent
April 16
My dear Mr. Henslow
I received yesterday the Botanische Zeitung Nor 10 for March 9 1866 with paper by Dr. Hildebrand of Bonn, who describes carefully what you showed me in Indigofera!2 & it seems that the irritability had been described by De Candolle & Treviranus,—who, however, mistook the proportion—3 Hildebrand also describes analogous movement in Medicago & to certain extent in Cytisus.—4
I am sorry for this. Dr H. also sends me long paper with good engravings on Salvia5—but not yet read— All these are in German— In Haste
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Henslow, George. 1865. Note on the structure of Medicago sativa, as apparently affording facilities for the intercrossing of distinct flowers. [Read 16 November 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 327–9.
Summary
F. Hildebrand, in his recent article [Bot. Ztg. 10 (1866): 73–8], describes what GH showed CD about Indigofera’s irritability.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5058
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Henslow
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London, C451: Opuscula
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5058,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5058.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14