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To Williams & Norgate   [November 1874 – May 1880]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | ☞ Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Dear Sir,

Please be so good as to send me following containing the paper by Dassen—p1062

“Tijdschrift vor Naturlijke Geschiedenes en Physiologie 1837 IV”

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The date is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from November 1874 onwards, and by the fact that CD sent the manuscript of Movement in plants to the press in May 1880 (Correspondence vol. 28, letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 28 May 1880).
2
CD referred to Michael Dassen’s paper on leaf movement (Dassen 1837) in Movement in plants, pp. 283 n. and 318 n.

Bibliography

Dassen, Michael. 1837. Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen, die niet door aanzwellingen ontstann. Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie 4: 106–34.

Movement in plants: The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.

Summary

Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11028F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Williams & Norgate
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Ms Caroline Waid (private collection)
Physical description
LS LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11028F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11028F.xml

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