From S. H. Vines 6 February 1882
Christs College— | Cambridge—
Feb. 6. 1882—
My dear Dr. Darwin—
I am sorry to say that I have really to contribute on the “aggregation” in the cells of roots— I made a few observations, just to get an idea of the appearances, but my time has been so fully occupied that I have not been able to go fully into the matter—1 Moreover it occurred to me that the time of year was not at all favourable for observations of this kind, unless, of course, the plants were grown in warmth— These reasons combined led me to postpone the matter till the summer—
I have been working very hard at the new edition of Sachs, and I am glad to say that the first two books of it are now in the press—so that only the Physiology remains to be done, a sufficiently arduous undertaking even by itself—2 To make the new edition of any value, much has to be added and altered, and it is a serious and anxious matter to do this, especially as the book covers such a wide range of topics— However, I console myself by thinking that the result will be at least better than nothing—
Yours very faithfully | Sydney H. Vines.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Sachs, Julius. 1874b. Lehrbuch der Botanik nach dem gegenwärtigen Stand der Wissenschaft. 4th edition. Leipzig: W. Engelmann.
Sachs, Julius. 1882b. Text-book of botany: morphological and physiological. Edited, with an appendix, by Sydney H. Vines. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Summary
On aggregation of protoplasm in root cells.
Is preparing new edition of Sachs [Text-book of botany, morphological and physical, ed. S. H. Vines, 2d ed. (1882)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13666
- From
- Sydney Howard Vines
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Christ’s College, Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 180: 7
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13666,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13666.xml