To J. D. Cooper 22 February 1882
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb 22— 1882
My dear Sir
I now send two other drawings to be engraved, and please to attend to the following instructions.1
Both drawings to be reduced to of present scale.
They are to stand as shown by the pencil bounding square They are highly magnified sections, therefore all the lines must be very fine.
You will see that in fig. 1 that some of the cells in the space marked c contain many rounded granules & these must be attended to in the cuts. These are closer together in the long cells marked b.
In the exterior cells marked d, and in the cut-off root-hairs, marked e the granules are to be omitted as I have written down.
The tubes or ducts marked a are crossed by fine transverse lines.
The same remarks apply to fig 2, but here the granules, & small spheres and elongated masses in the cells d and in the root hairs e are to be carefully shown.
The letters a, b, c, d, e are to be engraved in both figs. where now placed The blocks had better be sent to me when drawn; and I particularly beg you to have them done as soon as possible
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
[Enclosure 1]
[Enclosure 2]
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Action of carbonate of ammonia on roots’: The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 March 1882.] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239–61.
Summary
Instructs engraver on illustrations for his paper ["The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants", Collected papers 2: 236–56].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13698
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Davis Cooper
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Princeton University Library (Scheide Autograph Collection 68.5: 11); DAR 28.2: A1a–A1b
- Physical description
- LS(A) 4pp; enc 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13698,” accessed on 12 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13698.xml