Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
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Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].
Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
Forwards letters.
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?
Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]
Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.
Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.