Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.
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Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.
Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.
Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.
Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.
He has been working hard at Kew for two days.
Asks what position the sub-peduncles assume when the main flower peduncle of Oxalis is tied so as to be horizontal.
Asks whether FD can find some plants at Kew for CD to trace epinastic and hyponastic movements.
FD reports that CD thinks CH’s observations on limpets worth publishing (Hawkshaw 1878).
Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, Stevenage, is an admirable naturalist, especially concerning limpets.
Instructs FD to make some observations on movement in Trifolium and Impatiens. Sends some seeds to be sown.
Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.
He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?
Suggests experiment to detect salts deposited on surface of leaves.
Wants FD to have another go at horse-chestnut radicles.
Many thnks for the pelargonium letter.
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.
Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.