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Thanks for his election to the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Halle. Will send photograph as requested.
Lack of success in breeding horses in Bengal is related to damp climate. Encloses letter from F. G. Ravenhill concerning an unpublished report by the Stud Commission on animal breeds in Bengal.
Tells arrangements for their journey to Coniston.
Sends an address by Dr Erasmus Darwin [to the Derby Philosophical Society].
Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.
Thanks ADeB for sending specimens of Utricularia to Francis [Darwin]. Urges him to publish his observations, because Utricularia differs widely from Drosera. CD has been unable to detect any evidence of true digestion in Utricularia.
Thanks for JF’s book [Darwinism and other essays (1879)].
Last minute checking of some quotations has delayed his translation [of Erasmus Darwin].
Thanks for present and letter.
Wishes a good trip to the lakes and sends love to family members.
Experiments to determine mechanism of tendril curvature; importance of variations in cell turgidity. Contraction in roots caused by increased turgor.
CD elected honorary member of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Hopes CD will read and comment on his lecture ["Origin of flora of the Alps", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1879)]. Disgrees with CD; JB maintains that the high antiquity of existing plant genera and families explains wide differences in their distribution.
His experiments on nutrition of Utricularia are not sufficiently exact or complete to allow them to be published. He will resume experimentation and report to CD.
Crossbreeding experiments with geese.
Thanks for letter.
Comments on growth and movement of plants.
Coniston is most beautiful, but CD finds "there are too many human beings for my taste".