Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.
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Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.
Congratulates JWJ on marriage.
Thanks for essay by Neumayr [see 11569].
Comments on paper by Edmund Mojsisovics ["Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Anneliden", Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-naturwiss. Cl. 76 (1877) Abt. 1: 7–20].
CD’s health better than a few years ago.
Is frustrated to see, from a paragraph in Nature [18 (1878): 242], that Charles Lagrange has got hold of the same sort of ideas as he has.
Erasmus is unwell.
Discusses methods of fertilising potatoes.
Sleep of Porlieria hygrometrica seems independent of light.
Will have lots of time for oats. W. F. P. Pfeffer’s point is that there is no growth in sleepers with joints. A. F. Batalin says there is a slight growth.
[Dated Saturday 28th by FD.]
The results of WHD’s long series of investigations of effects of steadily and slowly altered environment on putrefactive organisms "palpably demonstrate [CD’s] great doctrine".
Will dispatch the best twisted stems he can find.
Considers the role of the pulvinus in leaf movement.
Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.