Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
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Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.
CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.
Describes his observations on Utricularia montana.
Asks JDH to cut a bit of root from old Utricularia and bring it with him to Down.
Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.
Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Comments on digestive action of pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Photograph of Rubens’ picture has not arrived.
JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].
Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.
Colour of calyces.
Returns copy of Botanische Zeitung.
Responds to comments on Drosera.
Queries about species of Utricularia.
The Aldrovanda has arrived. Has examined the leaves. It is an aquatic Dionaea which has acquired some structures identical to those of Utricularia!