Movements in Oxalis.

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.

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.

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.

Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.

Wants cryptogam identified; has been observing its movements.

Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.

Wants a plant identified;

would like some cotton seeds.

Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.

Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.

Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.