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To G. H. Darwin   12 October [1873]

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Asks GHD whether he can tell him what inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to the horizon in order to let vertical rain rebound off as much as possible.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  12 Oct [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9096

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  • 14 May 1877 ( Calendar no.  10960; also printed in ML 2: 361–2). There are a few references to movements brought about by water in Movement in plants (pp.  126, 128, 363), but evidently CD came to no firm conclusions. An anonymous article headed ‘The graver magazines’ in the Spectator , 11  …
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