Thanks for specimen of Dischidia. Will ask Hooker who might dissect it.
Thanks for specimen of Dischidia. Will ask Hooker who might dissect it.
Describes worms blocking their burrows with mulberries.
Informs JBD that his book [Earthworms] profited from JBD’s interesting notice ["On the transfer of subsoil to the surface", Proc. Manchester Lit. & Philos. Soc. 16: 247–8].
Second thousand [of Earthworms] has been exhausted and 3d is being printed. Asks CD to send corrections to the printer.
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Further comments on JW’s Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Discusses heliotropism and sensitivity of root tips. Bewildered by their differences concerning circumnutation.
Has no corrections. Pleased at sale of book [Earthworms].
Urges CD to find God.
On plants CD requested.
Frank should work on Dischidia.
Work on palms.
Overloaded with reading.
Thanks for errata [in Earthworms].
Note on habits of earthworms.
Thanks WP for copy of his Die Seele des Kindes [1882].
Has looked at BJS’s grapes. Can give no explanation of the case.
Earthworms is selling well.
Discussed how to repeat some of their plant experiments while in Cambridge.
Comments on Julius Wiesner’s views on plant movement.
S. H. Vines was very much surprised at the action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of Euphorbia.
Thanks CD for the reference to Audubon’s story. T. M. Brewer is to be trusted, but his account does not suggest why the bird always moved northward.
Thanks CD for letter of 10 September [13326]
and for copy of Nature.
Reports on Lagerstroemia experiments.
Has been making observations on what happens to plants following heavy rain. Sends CD three specimens to show how dirt attaches to the undersides of leaves.
Profuse thanks for plants.
Specifies which euphorbs he wants. Euphorbs’ alternate rows of ammonium carbonate reactive/non-reactive cells are worth more study.
Marine annelids are ingenious builders.
Is glad Fd’AF will find Wallace’s work useful [see 13313].
Has examined the egg-cases of Blatta and suspects the white matter may be cement or plaster. If Fd’AF observes similar cases the fact would be worth publishing as a good instance of skill in protection.
Corrects Werner Hoffmeister, cited in Earthworms, p. 63: earthworms do not block their holes to keep out Scolopendras but to prevent evaporation.