Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.

Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.

Working hard on plant movements.

Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.

Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.

Thanks for seeds and plants.

News of Francis and Horace Darwin.

Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.

Movement and sensitivity of flower parts; relationship to cross-fertilisation.

Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.

Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".

Heliotropic responses in aerial roots and tendrils.

Sends seeds received from Fritz Müller.

Has been reading WTT-D’s lecture ["Plant-distribution as a field for geographical research", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. 22: 412–45].

Heliotropism in roots.

Francis Darwin’s work on "bloom" and its relation to stomata.

Movements of flower-stalks of Oxalis.

Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.

Wants Impatiens seeds, in order to observe movements of cotyledons.

CD hopes his book [Movement in plants] will be worth the effort WTT-D has put into getting plants for him; fears he has achieved little.

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.