From Alfred Martinelli 26 June 1877
106 Albany St. | Regent’s Park | N.W.
26th. June 1877
Sir,
I take the liberty of submitting to you the following circumstance which has come under my notice:
Early last year I planted several beans which flowered in due course, but, owing I think to the poorness of the soil, bore no seeds. As annuals I expected they would have died; to my surprise, however, each formed a tuber at its root; and they have now grown again,—one sending up four shoots.1
The fact that no one to whom I have mentioned this circumstanc⟨e⟩ has been acquainted with it will, I trust, be sufficient excuse for my troubling you.
I have the honour to be, Sir | Your’s faithfully | Alfred Martinelli
Footnotes
Bibliography
Martinelli, Alfred. 1879. On the germination of a seed. Journal of the Queckett Microscopical Club 6 (1879–81): 12–17.
Summary
Reports an annual bean plant that formed a tuber and is now growing in the second year.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11018
- From
- Alfred James Martinelli
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albany St, 106
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 58
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11018,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11018.xml