Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.
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Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.
First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.
The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.
Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.
Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.
Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].
Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.
Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].
Errata slip forInsectivorous plants
CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Akademie.
Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.
Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.
Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.
Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".
Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.
No summary available.
Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].
Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.
No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.
His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.
Gives extracts from her father’s diary concerning the amputation and regrowth of her sister’s extra finger.
Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.
Asks permission to translate Expression.
The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.
Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.