Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.
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Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.
CD declines an invitation to be a trustee [of British Museum] because his strength is insufficient to permit regular attendance at meetings.
Wants seeds of heterostyled plants to test fertility of illegitimate seedlings.
Offers £100 to FM to replace books lost in flooding.
Movement of plants to shake off water: FM’s invaluable observations.
Inquires about "bloom" on leaves.
Fertilisation of Melastomataceae, roles of the two sets of anthers.
Will order Progress and poverty. Comments on ARW’s political interests and his own absorption in W. Graham’s The creed of science.
His sojourn at Ullswater: "life has become very wearisome to me".
Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.
Has sent FM’s account of Pandanus and Oxalis to Nature ["Leaves injured at night by free radiation", Nature 24 (1881): 459].
Is crossing heterostyled plants.
Hopes to get his notes on bloom together.
Is in Cambridge with his son, resting
and reading F. M. Balfour’s Comparative embryology [1880–1].
Sent FM a copy of Earthworms.
Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.
Bonney is an "objector general".
CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.
Is experimenting with effect of ammonium carbonate on chlorophyll and roots, but finds the results confusing.
Julius von Wiesner has published a book reinterpreting CD’s observations in Movement in plants [see 13422].
Waxy secretion or "bloom" on leaves.
FM’s article on Crotalaria.
Statement about a beetle-hunting worm is new to CD.
On F. M. Balfour.
Effects of ammonium carbonate on roots.
FM’s Pontederia case is very curious.
Thanks HG for kind offer. CD is not well enough to examine the Utricularia, but will try to look at the Nitella.
Thanks HG for specimen of Mitella.
CD has tried effects of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll grains, but his observations are hardly trustworthy. He finds stooping over the microscope affects his heart.
Invites FG to visit.
Has finished the last proof of his monograph [Fossil Lepadidae] and returns WH’s specimens. Has named two new species from the collection.
Will return all but two volumes; requests four titles, including Pepys’s Diaries, but not the first volume.
Thanks PHG for information about the bald-pate pigeon.
Will write to Richard Hill.
Can PHG remember any facts relevant to transport of animals and plants to distant islands?
Reports long preparation of work on how species and varieties differ. Agreement with Wallace’s conclusions as reported in Annals and Magazine of Natural History and in his letter to CD of 10 0ct [1856]. On distinction between domestic varieties and those in "a state of nature".
On mating of jaguars and leopards, the breeding of poultry, pigeons, etc.
Requests help for his experimenting on means of distribution of organic beings on oceanic islands.