Thanks for Euphorbia.
Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.
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Thanks for Euphorbia.
Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.
Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.
Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.
Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]
Thanks for WTT-D’s help.
Burying action of seeds.
"Bloom" on ferns.
Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.
Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.
Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.
Letter from Gaston de Saporta.
Germination of onion.
Has just arrived in Cambridge; his father has changed his mind. Asks to see JSH.
Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.
Review of Forms of flowers [Nature 17 (1878): 445–7].
Germination of Cactaceae; CD wants seeds. Site of action of growth-stimuli.
CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.
Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.
Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.
Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.
Working hard on plant movements.
Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.
Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.
Thanks for seeds and plants.
News of Francis and Horace Darwin.
Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.
Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.
Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.
Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.
Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.
Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.
Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.
Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.
CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.
Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.