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From Alphonse de Candolle 18 January [1881]
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Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13017 |
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- … Ferdinand von Mueller ’s Eucalyptographia included tables showing the number and distribution of stomata on leaves of different species of Eucalyptus ( Mueller 1879–84 , sections on E. pachyphylla and E. phoenicea ). CD had compared the tip of the radicle, or embryonic root, to the brain of an animal ( Movement in plants , p. 573). Candolle may have discussed the matter with Francis Darwin on his visit to Down on 27 September 1880 (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter …
