Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.
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Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.
Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.
Sleeping plants.
Is pleased FD’s climbing work goes well.
Thanks him for information on heliotropism.
Discusses sleep movements
and his observations on the sensitivity of radicle tips.
Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
Invites CD and Mrs Darwin to stay at his home if they plan to attend the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences, 16–21 August, and the seventh session of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 22–9 August.
CD elected corresponding member in the botanical section of the Académie des Sciences, Paris. [See 11653.]
Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.
On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.
CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
Congratulations on CD’s long-overdue election to the French Academy of Sciences.
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.
The secretary of the Comision de Propaganda of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Madrid, asks CD to send list of his publications to the Society.
Discourses on the rights of animals.
Instructs FD to plant some Oxalis seeds.
Wishes to trace the movement of an old cotyledon. Asks him to examine and compare the pulvinus of a species which moves its cotyledon greatly with one of a species that moves it only moderately.
Are the tendrils ready for heliotropic experiment yet?
Gives results of recently completed survey of islands in the Seychelle group mentioned in Coral reefs, 2d ed., pp. 243–4.
CD made an honorary member of the Royal Society for Medical and Natural Sciences of Brussels.
Sends a copy of a letter from Herbert Blakeway of Illinois, which accompanied a pig’s head with wattles.
Discusses the Castle Martin breed of Bos, the history of which shows parallels with the Himalayan rabbits.
Instructions to sow some seeds
and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.
Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.