Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
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Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
Thanks for plants.
Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.
WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.
Believes in differentiated nerve-tracts [in Medusa] because of experiment in which contractile waves blocked. [See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93.] Did not know author of MS was Miss Lawless. Describes experiment on contractile waves in Aurelia. Also studying starfish.