"Earthworms are hermaphrodite, but two must unite & both produce eggs.–– I have seen hundreds coupled, early in the morning & occasionally during the night.––"
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"Earthworms are hermaphrodite, but two must unite & both produce eggs.–– I have seen hundreds coupled, early in the morning & occasionally during the night.––"
Sends manuscript by Baron de Villa Franca on the apparent grafting of sugar canes.
CD will be glad to keep the proof of the medal.
He is decidedly better again.
Requests snake poison for experiment.
Apologises for not having answered CD’s letters of 19 December [13564] and 4 January [13599] sooner.
Gives the results of his crossing experiments with Pontederia (Eichhornia) crassipes and P. azurea. Has also begun experiments on Heteranthera reniformis.
Thanks CD for sending three parts of the first volume of Bentham and Hooker’s Genera plantarum.
Has forwarded some plants of Nitella opaca. Has observed their struggle for existence for several years in the gravel-pit pools at Mitcham.
Is trying to get some cobra poison for CD.
Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].
Thanks HG for specimen of Mitella.
CD has tried effects of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll grains, but his observations are hardly trustworthy. He finds stooping over the microscope affects his heart.
Edmond Perrier of Paris would be pleased to receive earthworms collected in Venezuela.
CD fears that he exaggerated the importance of worms in forming ledges on hillsides [see Earthworms, p. 278 ff.].
Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.
Very anxious that WTVD’s essay [on Syrian street dogs, see 13710] should be published. Has sent it to Zoological Society with a few introductory remarks [see 13753].
Thanks for his Catalogue of the Chilean plants.
Sends signature.
Solicits CD’s subscription to the Rolleston Memorial Fund, which will be used for a post-graduate prize at Oxford and Cambridge.
Sends his birth date.
Cannot contribute article to new journal [Field Naturalist and Scientific Student]. Writes only to communicate new facts.
Adds to his previous subscription for the Rolleston Memorial Fund.
Hopes HNM’s position at Oxford is satisfactory.
Thanks CD for contribution to Rolleston Fund
and for congratulations on his Professorship at Oxford.
Sends fact about earthworms.