Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].
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Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].
Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].
Sends his book [On protoplasm (1874)], which defends CD’s theory.
Suggests why the lips are closed and the teeth clenched in the expression of determination: it originated as a means of protecting jaw-bone and teeth against a strong blow.
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).
Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.
CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.
Hooker has told her of CD’s work on insectivorous plants. Offers plants, but her Dionaea plants are too small now.
Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.
Describes his holiday in Southampton.
Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.
Will prepare experiments with the fatty acids on digestion of gluten. Has found it is digested slowly, but entirely, with pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.
Also discusses space and colour perception.
Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].
Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.
Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.
Observations of effect of pepsin and hydrochloric acid on urea indicate that it is not digested [by Drosera].
Sends Pinguicula vulgaris leaves with seeds on them, together with his observations on proportion of leaves with insects on them.
Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.
Thanks for the Pinguicula leaves, from which he has picked off sixteen seeds.
Offers Utricularia montana and gives instructions for growing Drosera.
Wishes to visit CD at Down when she comes to London.
Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.
CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.
Observations on flotation of Utricularia vulgaris.
Returns a Drosera, from which he cut a piece for microscopic examination.
Utricularia montana just arrived.