Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
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Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.
Thanks MT for her article ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7]. Does not understand why he failed to detect movement [in Utricularia], but it appears from her observations that the valve is sensitive.
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.