To Francis Darwin [16 June 1881]1
[Glenridding House, Patterdale.]
My dear F.
Some of these seeds wind up into spire very quickly after being dipped in water & some move very slowly.— I am surprised that they can bury themselves in the ground, They all seem a little bowed naturally, before being wetted.— I have thanked Payne.—2
George arrived last night in pretty good trim, but he looks very thin.— He has sent in his paper to R. Soc. which will, I think, interest geologists.3
I have read Wortmann’s article in Bot. Zeitung with much interest.4 He seems to have proved his case well. It is very odd that we could not see Cieselkys case of the roots, not entering water, though I tried them with all temperatures.5 We ought to have had more perseverance.—
yours affectionately | C. Darwin
The essay on Växtformations is on geographical distribution of Plants!!6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Ciesielski, Theophil. 1872. Untersuchungen über die Abwärtskrümmung der Wurzel. Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 1 (1870–5) Heft 2: 1–30.
Darwin, George Howard. 1881b. On the stresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains. [Read 16 June 1881.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 173 (1882): 187–230.
Hult, Ragnar. 1881. Försök till analytisk behandling af växtformationerna. Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 8: 1–155.
Wortmann, Julius. 1881. Ein Beitrag zur Biologie der Mucorineen. Botanische Zeitung, 10 June 1881, pp. 368–74, 17 June 1881, pp. 383–7.
Summary
Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13206
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Sent from
- Patterdale
- Source of text
- DAR 211: 98v
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13206,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13206.xml