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To Francis Darwin   25 June [1879]

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Suggests experiments to test the response of radicles to light. Considers an alternative term for heliotropism.

Will be curious to have FD’s spiral theory about circumnutation explained to him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  25 June [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 56
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12122

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  • letter from Francis Darwin, [after 16 June 1879] and n. 4. Francis’s notes, dated 29 and 30 April, and 7, 12, and 13 September, on the application of caustic to mustard radicles, are in DAR 209.7: 71. On CD’s use of gold-beater’s skin, see letter to ? , 23

From Charles Moore   15 May 1879

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Sends an ammonite from the Upper Lias, which has Balanus-like bodies on surface. He wants CD’s interpretation. Discusses possible function of aptychi, siphuncular tube, and operculum in ammonites.

Author:  Charles Moore
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 May 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 233
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12055

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  • letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 and n. 12; see also Living Cirripedia (1851) , pp. 281–93, and Living Cirripedia (1854) , pp. 23– …
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