Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation
and for information about Mussaenda.
Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.
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Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation
and for information about Mussaenda.
Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.
Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.
Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
"Frank and I are working very hard on ""bloom"" and sleep" [movements]. Asks for succulent species for experiment.
Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.
Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.
Describes experiments on sensitivity of plant leaves to water.
Frank [Darwin] has found that Drosera leaves fed with meat contain more starch.
Thanks for the plants.
Is doubtful whether he will make out anything about "bloom".
Thanks R. I. Lynch for his MS on Averrhoa.
Would like specimen of Cassia mimosoides.
Offers books to R. I. Lynch in return for services rendered.
Discusses plants sent for experiments and "bloom" on leaves of Trifolium.
Sends enclosure for R. I. Lynch.
Requests plants that show movement, and any with "bloom" living near the sea.
Thanks for plants.
Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.
WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.
Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.
Thanks for letter about Trifolium
and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.
Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].
Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.
Wants a Euphorbia to test for leaf movements.
Thanks for Euphorbia.
Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.
Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.
Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.
Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]