Observations on insectivorous plants.
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Observations on insectivorous plants.
Sends geese to CD.
Crossbreeding of Chinese and common geese; believes they may be same species.
Thanks for letter and book [J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].
Thanks CD for his subscription to the bust in honour of Theodor Schwann.
Has forwarded what he believes to be a new species of Solanum.
He has been working hard at Kew for two days.
Sends photographs showing expressions in a young boy.
Requests support for his appointment as Superintendent of Epping Forest.
Working on a book [Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel, edited and extended by A. R. Wallace (1879)].
Apologises for his error over the Solanum.
Thanks CD for his good wishes; JT believes he will increase yield and disease-resistance by his crossing and selection.
Drosera species vary in form depending upon conditions. Send specimens
Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".
Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.
Sends fruit of date-palm which has not been impregnated by pollen from a male.
Has read Origin, which "puts everything straight".
Sends an example of natural selection: survival of water-buffalo eating Indian corn submerged by flooding might depend on how long animal could keep nose under water. Encloses measurements of this behaviour.
Thanks for CD’s support for [Epping Forest] appointment. Doubts about the proposed management.
Forwards a copy of the Student’s Magazine, which contains the first of a series of articles on CD and his work.
Thanks CD for his efforts to get HM’s book, Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873], translated into English. [See Fertilisation of flowers, translated by D’Arcy W. Thompson, preface by C. Darwin (1883).]
Will soon return to his observations on insects in general and bees in particular.