Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
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Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
Discusses EM’s book [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)]. Pleased by EM’s views of geological chronology based on evolution. Thinks distribution of land and sea formerly very different. New genera and families may have been developed on isolated tracks and migrated.
Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.
Working hard on plant movements.
Comments on achenia of Pumilio argyrolepis.
Feels WHK’s views on the origin of tumbling in pigeons are very likely correct.
Thanks for evolution article; would like to know what made Lamarck "change his front" so completely.
Has received interesting essay from August Weismann on sexual selection in daphnoids [“Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden”, Z. Wiss. Zool. (1878)].
Thanks AD-P for his magnificent Atlas; hopes it will find an English publisher. Suggests Longman & Co.
Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.
After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".
Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.
Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.
Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.
GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.
Thanks for bananas.
Will rejoice when Joseph Dalton Hooker is no longer burdened by his Royal Society duties.
Thanks for seeds and plants.
News of Francis and Horace Darwin.
Can send FD twisted branches of some climbing plants if he wishes.
Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.
Thanks JET for his book.
Asks questions related to movement in plants. The cotyledons of Oxalis offer a promising field for study.
Wonders why Julius von Sachs thinks bloom is a protection against insects.
Encloses notes on the cotyledons of Oxalis species.
Congratulates JWJ on marriage.
Thanks for essay by Neumayr [see 11569].
Comments on paper by Edmund Mojsisovics ["Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Anneliden", Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-naturwiss. Cl. 76 (1877) Abt. 1: 7–20].
CD’s health better than a few years ago.
Discusses methods of fertilising potatoes.