RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1913. [Letter to Eben Jenks Loomis, 1881]. In Millicent Todd, Eben Jenks Loomis. Cambridge, Mass., p. 20.

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe 5.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Freeman Bibliographical Database, enter its Identifier here. Darwin refers to Loomis's paper: Automatic movement of the frond of Asplenium trichomanes. Botanical Gazette 5: 43. CUL-DAR209.3.327.


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Also, Darwin wrote to my grandfather in regard to his discovery:

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APRIL 4TH, 1881,

DOWN,

 BECKENHAM, KENT.

DEAR SIR,

I am very much obliged for your kind letter of March 19th. But your information is not new to me, as I read with great interest your first and second published notice on the case. It seems to me a very strange one, and different from any other known to me. I remain, dear sir,

With much respect,

Yours faithfully,

CHARLES DARWIN.

 


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