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Writing on vegetable physiology.
Nothing in CD’s life has ever interested him more than the fertilisation of such plants as Primula and Lythrum.
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Drosera species vary in form depending upon conditions. Send specimens
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.
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Cannot explain the peculiarities of the blood corpuscles of the Camelidae; maybe similarity between camels and ostriches arises from adaptation rather than common ancestry.
Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
Thanks him for plant specimens.
Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.
Sends fruit of date-palm which has not been impregnated by pollen from a male.
Has read Origin, which "puts everything straight".
Sends an example of natural selection: survival of water-buffalo eating Indian corn submerged by flooding might depend on how long animal could keep nose under water. Encloses measurements of this behaviour.
Forwards a copy of the Student’s Magazine, which contains the first of a series of articles on CD and his work.
Doubts that "the same well-characterized species should be produced in two distinct countries, or at two distinct times".
Neither he nor [Francis Darwin] intends publishing on inheritance.
They are working on physiology of plants [Movement in plants], but will not print for a year.
Thinks JVC’s new journal [Zoologische Anzeiger] will be of great use to students of zoology.
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