To A. S. Wilson 16 April 1881
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April 16. 1881
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for the extract from the Gardeners Chronicle. I think that you have done good service in explaining the Russian case, though no doubt it is hydra-headed and will again some day re-appear. It is a capital instance of one var. gradually beating out another.1 With respect to the so-called cotyledons of the Gramineæ, I did not know enough to form any independent judgment, so thought that I had better simply follow Sachs, though I did so with some misgiving.—2 I am sorry that I do not remember where I put Mr. Henslow’s note: I did not throw it away, but have no clue where to look for it.—3 I believe that Mr. Henslow is a very obliging man and would, I dare say, give you the desired information.
Pray believe me, my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Movement in plants: The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.
Sachs, Julius. 1875a. Text-book of botany: morphological and physiological. Translated and annotated by Alfred W. Bennett, assisted by W. T. Thiselton-Dyer. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Wilson, Alexander Stephen. 1881. Kubanka and Saxonka wheat. Gardeners’ Chronicle, 2 April 1881, pp. 430–2.
Summary
Obliged for extract from Gardeners’ Chronicle about Russian wheat. "It is a capital instance of one var. gradually beating out another."
Cannot remember where he put G. Henslow’s note [on the cotyledon of grass embryos].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13121
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alexander Stephen Wilson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 148: 372
- Physical description
- C 1p
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13121,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13121.xml