Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
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Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Thanks Howitt for his offer of information from Australia and suggests that Howitt keep detailed notes for a future publication.
Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).
Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.
Describes his holiday in Southampton.
Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.
Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].
Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.
Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.
Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.
Thanks for the Pinguicula leaves, from which he has picked off sixteen seeds.
Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.
CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.
Returns a Drosera, from which he cut a piece for microscopic examination.
Utricularia montana just arrived.
CD has never before seen the Utricularia DN has sent. Hooker had told him about it. Asks that her gardener observe young Utricularia: CD is interested in internal structure of little balls on bladders.
Sends photograph.
Should like to borrow again a volume which he returned in error. Requests The Quarterly Magazine of the High Wycombe Natural History Society for 1867 and 1868 to locate paper on Utricularia.
Stupidly missed Utricularia bladders, which he assumed were with the leaves. Has now found true bladders on roots and has evidence of captive prey. Thinks bladders capture subterranean insects. Thinks the large bladder-like structures are water reservoirs. DN’s plant has given him a most enjoyable day of work.
Describes his observations on Utricularia montana.
Asks JDH to cut a bit of root from old Utricularia and bring it with him to Down.
Thanks for 5th edition of his book [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte.
CD continues with his experiments on the digestive power of plants, which is much like that of mammals.
Is also preparing a revised edition of Descent.
Would welcome hearing more of his ideas about Pangenesis.
Postscript about Anthropogenie, which has just arrived. EH’s astonishing productivity.
"Nature published last Thursday has not yet arrived."
Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]
Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.
Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.
Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.
Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].
Comments on digestive action of pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Photograph of Rubens’ picture has not arrived.