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To F. M. Balfour   4 September 1880

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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
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