5o8 'POWER OF MOVEMENT IN PLANTS.' [1881. 



which I felt when I saw in a book about beetles the impres- 

 sive words " captured by C. Darwin." Captured sounded so 

 grand compared with caught. This seemed to me glory- 

 enough for any man ! I do not know in the least what made 

 the Times glorify me,* for it has sometimes pitched into me 

 ferociously. 



I should very much like to see you again, but you would 

 find a visit here very dull, for we feel very old and have no 

 amusement, and lead a solitary life. But we intend in a few 

 weeks to spend a few days in London, and then if you have 

 anything else to do in London, you would perhaps come and 

 lunch with us. \ 



Believe me, my dear Sarah, 



Yours gratefully and affectionately, 



Charles Darwin. 



[The following letter was called forth by the publication 

 of a volume devoted to the criticism of the ' Power of 

 Movement in Plants ' by an accomplished botanist. Dr. Julius 

 Wiesner, Professor of Botany in the University of Vienna :] 



C. Darwin to Jtdiiis Wiesner. 



Down, October 25th, 1881. 



My dear Sir, — I have now finished your book, J and have 

 understood the whole except a very few passages. In the 

 first place, let me thank you cordially for the manner in which 

 you have everywhere treated me. You have shown how a 

 man may differ from another in the most decided manner, 

 and yet express his difference with the most perfect courtesy. 

 Not a few English and German naturalists might learn a 

 useful lesson from your example; for the coarse language 



* The following is the opening sentence of the leading article : — " Of 

 all our living men of science none have laboured longer and to more splen- 

 did purpose than Mr. Darwin." 



f My father had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Haliburton at his brother's 

 house in Queen Anne Street. 



X ' Das Bewegungsvermogen der Pflanzen.' Vienna, 188 1. 



