Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
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Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
Would like specimen of Cassia mimosoides.
Offers books to R. I. Lynch in return for services rendered.
Discusses plants sent for experiments and "bloom" on leaves of Trifolium.
Sends enclosure for R. I. Lynch.
Much obliged for account of cleistogamic flowers.
Sends thanks for a newspaper abstract; will be pleased to see the paper [probably "Economy as a phonetic force", Trans. Am. Philological Assoc.8 (1877): 123–34] when printed.
Sends his own ["Biographical sketch of an infant"], saying it is of little value, the observations having been made before recent advances in philology.
Statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works.
Thanks CD for permission to quote his comments; mentions some of his conclusions with regard to the early speech of children.
Thanks for [newspaper] account of American Philological Association meeting.
Sends paper on Greek plants.
Will be interested in reading AdeC’s paper on Smilax. The transition from hermaphroditic to unisexual condition is a perplexing problem.
CD agrees that there is much justice in AdeC’s criticism of his use of the terms "object", "end", and "purpose" but thinks "those who believe that organs have been gradually modified by natural selection for a special purpose, may I think use the above terms correctly though no conscious being has intervened".
CD and Francis are hard at work on the function of "bloom" but CD doubts that the experiments will tell them much.
Does AdeC have a decided opinion on whether plants with glaucous leaves are more frequent in hot or dry than in cold or wet countries?
Francis has been getting "striking" results from feeding meat to Drosera.
Praises unbroken series of CD’s and Francis [Darwin]’s botanical works.
Confirms FD’s Dipsacus observations. Problem of interpreting microscopic filaments as protoplasm or as inorganic and osmotic artifacts.
Requests plants that show movement, and any with "bloom" living near the sea.
Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].
CD sends his thanks for LN’s book [Der Ursprung der Sprache] and for the obliging words on the title page.
Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].
Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.
Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus
and his own experiments on Drosera.
Comments on JC’s paper ["On the tidal retardation argument for the age of the earth", Rep. BAAS (1876): 88–9].
Obliged for essay on plants of Greece.
Comments on GJR’s paper in Nature.
Information on plants requested by CD.