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IV Dear Frank, My father, who was the wisest man I ever knew, thought it the duty of every man, young & old, to keep an account of his money; & I very unwillingly obeyed him; for I was not always so bothersome an old fellow as I daresay I appear to you. . . . My dear Father, I have sent cheque to a repeated bill from Griffin. A thermometer has come from Kew, For which I have also paid. I go on maundering about the pulvinus, & from what I have seen roughly in the petioles of the Cotyledons of oxalis, I conclude that a pulvinus must be developed from ordinary cells. I have tried watering Porliera out of doors, I gave four small cans full in the day & next morning it was wide open though for several days before it had been shut. The pot-plant is very unhealthy I am afraid As its leaves are dropping off at the stalk. I was very glad to find that Sachs is dead against all the people that find the Descendenz theory in Ray, Lamarck, Goethe &c.; Sachs says that he believes some ferns of the family Marratiaceae sleep . . . Dear F, I have finished the long chapter on Sleeping Plants & sent it to Mr Norman to copy & diagrams to Mr Cooper. I am now looking over piles of notes on Heliotropism. I am more perplexed than ever about life of Dr. D: Hen thinks it very dull, & wants it much shortened & otherwise arranged. Erasmus likes it. Your mother wants parts shortened. I shall take it on Aug. 1st to the Lakes & finish it there. I am tired— Ever yours C. Darwin
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Apr 9, 2014
Apr 9, 2014 at 12:54 PM UTC
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IV Dear Frank, My father, who was the wisest man I ever knew, thought it the duty of every man, young & old, to keep an account of his money; & I very unwillingly obeyed him; for I was not always so bothersome an old fellow as I daresay I appear to you. . . . My dear Father, I have sent cheque to a repeated bill from Griffin. A thermometer has come from Kew, For which I have also paid. I go on maundering about the pulvinus, & from what I have seen roughly in the petioles of the Cotyledons of oxalis, I conclude that a pulvinus must be developed from ordinary cells. I have tried watering Porliera out of doors, I gave four small cans full in the day & next morning it was wide open though for several days before it had been shut. The pot-plant is very unhealthy I am afraid As its leaves are dropping off at the stalk. I was very glad to find that Sachs is dead against all the people that find the Descendenz theory in Ray, Lamarck, Goethe &c.; Sachs says that he believes some ferns of the family Marratiaceae sleep . . . Dear F, I have finished the long chapter on Sleeping Plants & sent it to Mr Norman to copy & diagrams to Mr Cooper. I am now looking over piles of notes on Heliotropism. I am more perplexed than ever about life of Dr. D: Hen thinks it very dull, & wants it much shortened & otherwise arranged. Erasmus likes it. Your mother wants parts shortened. I shall take it on Aug. 1st to the Lakes & finish it there. I am tired— Ever yours C. Darwin
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Apr 9, 2014
Apr 9, 2014 at 12:54 PM UTC
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