Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
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Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.
Sends Linnean papers.
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.
Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.
Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
Asks about constituents of burnt soil.
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
Explains how they look after Drosera plants.
Encloses his father’s autograph.