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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 |
From F. M. Balfour 13 September 1880
Summary
Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].
Has met Horace Darwin and wife;
climbed Matterhorn.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12712 |
From F. M. Balfour [22 November 1880]
Summary
Thanks for copy of Movement in plants; CD’s discovery of a "nervous system without nerves" will have important bearing on origins of animal nervous system.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12786 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Balfour, F. M. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
