Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]
and for his trouble about the gooseberry.
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Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]
and for his trouble about the gooseberry.
Asks CD’s opinion of an experiment on Drosera.
Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.
Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.
Alludes to Pangenesis.
Sulivans are coming on Friday. Can JDH come?
Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.
WTT-D and E. R. Lankester wish to visit CD.
Has corrected some references for new edition of Variation.
Acknowledges with thanks "Mr Fitzgerald’s magnificent work" [R. D. Fitzgerald’s Australian orchids, part 1 (1875)]. [See 10069.]
Fairy-rings grow because the fungal spawn radiates outwards then dies off at the centre as it becomes exhausted. The verdure of the grass depends upon the decay of the fungus supplying nitrogenous manure. Rings are formed mainly in upland pastures poor in nitrogenous matter. Gives examples of woodland fungi that form rings.
Thanks CD again for his book [Insectivorous plants];
would like an autograph to put in it.
Would be delighted if ever she could visit Down again.
JJW is to think no more about mistake [regarding Cytisus graft].
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.
Can JDH bring a good book on Corallina or Nullipora of Lamarck?
CD intends writing paper on their propagation.
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.