Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.
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Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.
Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.
Sends his autograph
and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would be pleased to see DN at Down.
Thanks RDF for a part of his book [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)]; suggests further observations RDF could make and defends some of his own conclusions.
Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.
Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.
Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.
The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.
Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].
Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.
Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
Errata for Insectivorous plants, 3d printing.
Asks about FH’s research on maize. Suggests experiments.
Thanks for KLR’s latest work (Rütimeyer 1875).
Comments on GJR’s experiments.
Errata slip forInsectivorous plants
Sorry he was out when CD called.
Is obliged to be given a second and improved edition of GKMvS’s excellent lectures.
Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].