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To Williams & Norgate [before 4 September 1880]
Summary
Requests a list of books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | [before 4 Sept 1880] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12390F |
To F. M. Balfour 4 September 1880
Summary
Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.
In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.
Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12706 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Addressee
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
