Discusses plants sent for experiments and "bloom" on leaves of Trifolium.

Sends enclosure for R. I. Lynch.

Would like specimen of Cassia mimosoides.

Offers books to R. I. Lynch in return for services rendered.

Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.

Thanks for letter about Trifolium

and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.

Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].

Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.

Wants a Euphorbia to test for leaf movements.

Thanks for Euphorbia.

Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.

Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.

Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.

Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]

Thanks for WTT-D’s help.

Burying action of seeds.

"Bloom" on ferns.

Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.

Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.

Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.

Letter from Gaston de Saporta.

Germination of onion.

Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.

Review of Forms of flowers [Nature 17 (1878): 445–7].

CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.

Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.

Germination of Cactaceae; CD wants seeds. Site of action of growth-stimuli.

Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.

Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.

Working hard on plant movements.