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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker   22 October 1881

Darwin, Charles Robert

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Visiting his son Horace.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking <i>Euphorbia</i> root cells react differently.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Intrigued by <i>Dischidia rafflesiana</i>, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of <i>Movement in plants</i> "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [<i>Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen</i> (1881)].</p>

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