From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 31 December 1880
Summary
Signs a certificate sent to him by CD [see 12954].
Sends CD a ticket to his lecture on 25 February, in which he will propose that the mode by which the excitable parts of plants influence other parts at a distance is essentially the same as in the excitable structure of animals, contrary to the views of Hermann Munk and Julius Sachs.
Interested in chapters 6 and 7 of Movement in plants.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12958A |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Munk, Hermann. 1876. Die …
- … Francis Darwin ’s certificate of proposal for fellowship of the Royal Society of London . See letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 29 December 1880 and n. 2. Burdon Sanderson’s lecture was part of a series organised by the Royal Institution of Great Britain . Hermann Munk , in his paper ‘Die elektrischen und Bewegungs-Erscheinungen am Blatte der Dionaea muscipula ’ (The electrical and movement phenomena in leaves of Dionaea muscipula ), had concluded that the electromotive effect on the leaf cell was a direct result of the movement of water out of the cell ( Munk 1876 , …
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