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Forwards letters.
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.
SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.
Will publish Origin first
and then Descent.
AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.
Suggests movements of sensitive plants may protect against insects.
JIR’s "theory" of sensitive plants published in an anonymous letter he sent to the Field 2½ years ago. Mechanisms for protection against insects in sensitive plants.
Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]
Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.
A report has arrived for FD which CD will forward.
Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Suggests sensitive plants that close at night would be protected from nocturnal-feeding snails. JIR’s brother in India says snails occur there in abundance.