Informs RLT of J. D. Hooker’s work on Nepenthes ["Nepenthaceae, Cytinaceae", in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by A. P. de Candolle (1873), 17: 90–116].
Has asked JDH to try secretions of pitchers that had caught no insects.
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Informs RLT of J. D. Hooker’s work on Nepenthes ["Nepenthaceae, Cytinaceae", in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by A. P. de Candolle (1873), 17: 90–116].
Has asked JDH to try secretions of pitchers that had caught no insects.
Insectivorous plants to be published in two or three days.
Climbing plants and 2d ed. of Variation will be published early in November.
Has no strength for corrections for the new printing of Origin, though many are desired.
Pleased that JVC will translate Insectivorous plants.
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Very glad about sales [of Insectivorous plants]. CD had hard work to persuade Murray to increase printing to 1250 copies, but owns he thought that number would last for eternity. U. S. publication and French, German, and Russian translations in the offing.
Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.
Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
Is very interested in JJW’s report on a purple laburnum grafted onto yellow stock which then produces yellow flowers. CD requests racemes to examine.
Enquires about fairy rings.
Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.
Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]
and for his trouble about the gooseberry.
Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.
Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.
Alludes to Pangenesis.
Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.
Acknowledges with thanks "Mr Fitzgerald’s magnificent work" [R. D. Fitzgerald’s Australian orchids, part 1 (1875)]. [See 10069.]
JJW is to think no more about mistake [regarding Cytisus graft].
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.
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
Asks about FH’s research on maize. Suggests experiments.
Thanks for KLR’s latest work (Rütimeyer 1875).