Requests orchid specimens for experiment.
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Requests orchid specimens for experiment.
Thanks for WTT-D’s kindness about the orchids.
Thanks for Catasetum and other specimens.
Discusses the death of his daughter-in-law.
Plans to visit Southampton.
Would like Catasetum and Acropera plants.
Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
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.
Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.
Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.
Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.
Has sent Mimosa. The horticultural and physiological Mimosa is M. albida, which has a western distribution, rather than M. sensitiva as it is commonly called in error.
Describes experiments on sensitivity of plant leaves to water.
Frank [Darwin] has found that Drosera leaves fed with meat contain more starch.
Is acquiring some "maritime and glaucous" plants for CD.
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.