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To Daniel Oliver 16 November [1860]
Summary
One thirty-thousandth of a grain of human hair inflects a single Drosera hair. Astonished by his results so he is not publishing until next summer. [Not published until 1875, Insectivorous plants. See ch. 2 for observations on inflection.]
Wants to study effects of acids on live Dionaea. Oliver should do their anatomy. Corresponding with chemical physiologists about carbonate of ammonia on roots.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 16 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 26 (EH 88206010) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2985 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 November [1860]
Summary
Thanks THH for his lecture ["On the study of zoology", Lay sermons, addresses and reviews (1870), pp. 104–31]. Best exposé and classification of the higher objects of natural history he has ever read. On reading and observation.
Henrietta’s lack of improvement.
R. McDonnell’s work on rays and electric organs of fishes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 16 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 145) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2986 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Addressee
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
