A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.
Cites a misprint in Orchids.
Asks how long Forms of flowers will be, and publication date.
Sends a list of errata in Forms of flowers.
A misprint in Variation.
Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".
Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.
Will be happy to translate CD’s new book [Movement in plants]. Asks how large the book will be.
Some sheets [of Movement in plants] are missing. Is delighted with its "lesson of methods of observation patience and thought".
Discusses Ernst Krause’s publication of an extract from Earthworms translated into German in the journal Kosmos.
Koch [of Schweizerbart, publisher of CD’s works in Germany and also publisher of Kosmos] has asked JVC to translate Earthworms and send one chapter of it to Kosmos for advance separate publication. He thinks a chapter on the practical work of the earthworms would be most interesting to the general reader.
Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.