The progress of the Fuegians is wonderful.
Sympathises with the "lamentable state" BJS and his family have been in.
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The progress of the Fuegians is wonderful.
Sympathises with the "lamentable state" BJS and his family have been in.
Does not feel he knows enough of FBW to offer his opinion as a testimonial.
CD’s little biography [Erasmus Darwin] has turned out very dull.
May FG’s tour turn out pleasant.
Has given his reasons for believing that twisting of stem is related to circumnutation in Climbing plants.
Tells results of experiments on movement of cotyledons and radicles.
Is getting aerial heliotropic roots from Kew.
CD will attend to ELK’s suggestions, but there is plenty of time, because Dallas translates slowly and Murray will not publish the book before November.
Asks for directions on how to behave at ceremony conferring the Baly Medal.
Thanks for plants
and case of sleeping Crotalaria.
"Bloom" for the present has "gone to the dogs".
Shares RM’s misgivings about Fritz Müller’s mutually protecting mimics. Would expect bird’s response to distasteful caterpillars to be instinctive. Believes J. J. Weir or Thomas Belt may have investigated the point.
Thanks for a copy of Theorie der Gärung.
Thinks there is no particular interest in the abnormality in question.
Also CD has looked at several flowers and believes WDC may be mistaken in believing there is a rudimentary anther cell.
Movement in plants: Philodendron and Dendrobium.
Will go to London on Thursday to receive Baly Medal. Laura Forster has offered them her house in London.
Comments in jocular vein on GHD’s "Darwin discoveries" about their ancestors.
Emma says CD needs a change and rest.
Thanks her for loan of her house [Abinger Hammer].
Movement of radicles.
Suggests experiments to test the response of radicles to light. Considers an alternative term for heliotropism.
Will be curious to have FD’s spiral theory about circumnutation explained to him.
Believes that the response of root tips to being "blinded" with foil is much more interesting than response to cauterisation.
Wishes to call on THF to discuss the situation with regard to Horace Darwin [who wishes to marry THF’s daughter, Emma Cecilia (Ida)].
Sir Robert Christison says Dr Darwin not the first to recommend alcohol for fever.
Thanks JP for his kindness, but unfortunately the [unspecified] case is of no use to him.
Discusses the movements of radicles. His observations show that sensitivity to touch resides in the root tip and he believes that sensitivity to gravity governing geotropic responses is also in the root tip. Would much like to convert Julius von Sachs to his ideas on radicle movement.