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From James Paget   12 November 1880

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Sends a copy of his lecture Elemental pathology: an address on elemental pathology delivered in the pathological section of the British Medical Association (Paget 1880).

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1880
Classmark:  Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (Auction 3103T, 6 August 2018)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12809F

To James Paget   14 November 1880

Summary

Surprising thought that diseases of plants should illustrate human pathology.

Will recommend A. B. Frank’s article in a German encyclopedia, on diseases of plants, to Francis Darwin.

Gives JP a good case of regeneration in plants – the radicle of the common bean. That plants have little power of regeneration is not difficult to understand by anyone who believes in Pangenesis, "if such a man exists … There is reason to think that my imaginary gemmules have small power of passing from cell to cell."

Refers to early experiments in which he tried to produce galls in plants by injecting poisons.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  14 Nov 1880
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/31)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12819

From James Paget   3 December 1880

Summary

Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].

Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".

Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12886

To James Paget   13 December 1880

Summary

Perhaps you would like to see a very small “tumour” on a lateral branch of the Silver Fur, caused by an Œstrum, as stated (with references) in my Power of Movement in Plants. These tumours are sometimes almost as big as a child’s head. At what age they emit the upright shoot, I do not know.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  13 Dec 1880
Classmark:  Paget ed. 1901, p. 409 n.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12911
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