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To William Preyer   27 November 1880

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Will send copy of Movement in plants.

Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:  27 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 147: 270
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12867

From William Preyer   25 November 1880

Summary

Sends his book [Naturwissenschaftliche Thatsachen und Probleme. Populäre Vorträge (1880)].

Anxious to receive Movement in plants because CD’s methods may be applicable to his experiments on the earliest movements of animal embryos.

Author:  William Thierry (William) Preyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12857

From William Preyer   2 December 1880

Summary

CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.

Author:  William Thierry (William) Preyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12883
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