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To Jeffries Wyman 8 October [1865]
Summary
Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.
Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?
Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912 |
From Jeffries Wyman 22 September 1865
Summary
Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.
| Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4897 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Wyman, Jeffries | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Wyman, Jeffries | (1) |
