Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.
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Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Will not sign a petition, for he feels vivisection is essential to the progress of physiology.
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.
Thanks CHB for his anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
Will send carriage to station on 18th.
Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.
Is sorry that LW’s circumstances interfere with his scientific work. Does not think any English scientific society can help.
Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].
Has read Hume with great pleasure, but found parts very stiff reading.
George Darwin has visited Anthony Rich.
Thanks GdeS for his photograph; sends his own. Glad to hear GdeS’s work [Le monde des plantes (1879)] is popular in France.