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Forwards letters.
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.
Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.
Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.
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.]
He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.
Sleep in Porlieria studied.
Oats begin germinating.
Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.
Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.
Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.
More sleepers from green-house.
Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.
Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.
Sleeping plants.
He has been working hard at Kew for two days.
Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.
He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?
Many thnks for the pelargonium letter.
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.