Instructions to sow some seeds
and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.
Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.
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Instructions to sow some seeds
and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.
Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.
Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.
Thanks FBG for his offer [of geese for breeding experiments] but cannot undertake anything. Suggests FBG or any friend cross half-bred birds for a few generations; it would be a valuable contribution to science.
Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].
Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].
Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.
Has changed his mind and would like some of FBG’s hybrids to breed from. Feels he should not lose the chance of perhaps recording the fertility of hybrids of two distinct species.
Is gratified by EV’s "spirited and able defence" in the article printed in La France [26 April 1878].
Heliotropic responses in aerial roots and tendrils.
Sends seeds received from Fritz Müller.
Has been reading WTT-D’s lecture ["Plant-distribution as a field for geographical research", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. 22: 412–45].
Sends address of Fritz Müller.
Thanks him for ["Beiträge zur Geschichte der Bestäubungstheorie", in Program der Königlichen Gewerbeschule zu Elberfeld, 1877/78 (1879)]. Agrees with appreciation of Carl Sprengel’s work. Rejoices how highly GWJB appreciates Hermann Müller.
Heliotropism in roots.
Francis Darwin’s work on "bloom" and its relation to stomata.
Movements of flower-stalks of Oxalis.
Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.
TW’s account of the Ourang is very curious. CD hopes to see the primate whenever he goes to London, but he is leaving home for three weeks.
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.