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To M. T. Masters   [after 25 November 1880]

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Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  [after 25 Nov 1880]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12859

From M. T. Masters   25 November 1880

Summary

Praise for Movement in plants.

He thinks G. A. Chatin, whom CD quotes [p. 389], is mistaken about movement of conifer leaves. Cites his own paper ["Relations between morphology and physiology in the leaves of certain conifers", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 17 (1880): 547–52].

Author:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 171: 87
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12858
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