To Francis Darwin [17 August 1878]1
Barlaston.
Saturday,
My dearest F,
Have these precious seeds, sent by Dyer, sown in 3 Pots.2
Would it not be worth while to clean with tepid sponge small cabbage or sea-kale leaf—leave for 2 or 3 days—then cut leaf off & gently submerge for some hours in water & compare stomata,, whether open or shut, on the 2 halves?3
I enclose letter from George; he sent a card this morning (which in your mothers hands disappeared like a flash of lightning, never to be found again) saying that Routh says George is all right in his mathematical view.—4 You are a wicked man never to have told us a word about yourself or Bernard.—5 I like De Vries very much— I hardly ever saw so modest a man.—6
Ever yours | C. D.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin, Francis. 1886. On the relation between the ‘bloom’ on leaves and the distribution of the stomata. [Read 4 February 1886.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 22 (1885–6): 99–116.
Summary
Instructions to sow some seeds
and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.
Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11668
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Sent from
- Barlaston
- Source of text
- DAR 211: 44
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11668,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11668.xml