"Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A[cid]."
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"Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A[cid]."
Fears all the seeds are dead. Will try with less vapour of formic acid.
Observations on bees’ biting holes in Lathyrus.
Suggests an experiment FD could carry out with Drosera.
CD is working on Mimosa, and "everything has turned out as perversely as possible".
Pollination and floral structure of Lathyrus. Asks where bees bite through the flowers.
Asks FD to bring any book that gives the affinities of the various earths, alkalis and metals.
Asks for details about microscope parts.
Wants FD to ask Hooker for species of Desmodium; CD believes he has found new movements.
Also ask whether Hooker has Drosophyllum.
Lists observations he would like FD to make on the dried species of Desmodium at Kew.
Wants FD to look at the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium. CD has "a wild hypothesis that the little leaflets may be tendrils reconverted into leaflets".
Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Asks FD to make out [Hermann] Hoffmann’s conclusions about the fertilisation of Phaseolus multiflorus [in Untersuchungen zur Bestimmung des Werthes von Species und Varietät (1869)].
Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.
Has been examining Utricularia minor. Same essential structure but catches smaller Entomostraca. One bladder had 24, another 20, and another 15 Entomostraca. "What slaughter! We must make out the functions of the beast––".
Sends a chapter [of Insectivorous plants]. Never was there anything so dull, but later chapters will be better. Please correct an error on p. 86.
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.