H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.

CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.

Movements in Oxalis.

Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.

Heliotropic movements. Is giving up experiments until the spring.

Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].

Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].

Thanks for second edition of Duchartre.

Thanks for seeds and for kindness to Frank Darwin.

Wants a Cassia identified

and several plants and seeds for experimental purposes.

Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.

Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.

Asks for identification of an Oxalis flower.

Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.

Has been writing life of Erasmus Darwin.

Wants plants with heliotropic aerial roots. Has proved root apex governs nature of flexure in upper part of root.

Sleep in Crotalaria.

Report of John Ball’s lecture to Geographical Society: Alpine flora is direct descendant of Palaeozoic flora ["On the origin of the flora of the European Alps", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1: 564–88].

Thanks for plants

and case of sleeping Crotalaria.

"Bloom" for the present has "gone to the dogs".

Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.

Structure of some "very curious" tendrils.

Has failed with his experiments on aerial roots.

Wants a plant that shows interesting sleep movements identified.