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
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13155,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13155.xml
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