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Statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works.
Sends paper on Greek plants.
Thanks CD for permission to quote his comments; mentions some of his conclusions with regard to the early speech of children.
Thanks for [newspaper] account of American Philological Association meeting.
Praises unbroken series of CD’s and Francis [Darwin]’s botanical works.
Confirms FD’s Dipsacus observations. Problem of interpreting microscopic filaments as protoplasm or as inorganic and osmotic artifacts.
Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].
Comments on JC’s paper ["On the tidal retardation argument for the age of the earth", Rep. BAAS (1876): 88–9].
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Obliged for essay on plants of Greece.
Accepts CD’s offer to publish his letter, confirming Francis Darwin’s observations [see Collected papers 2: 205–7].
H. Hoffmann’s observations on Amanita contractile filaments must be repeated.
Microscopic examination of secretory gland filaments in Dipsacus leafcups. FD’s pseudopod theory of Dipsacus.
Information on plants requested by CD.
Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
Encloses specimens of milk-weed with trapped insects. Indian hemp catches insects in the same way but with less success.
Thanks for Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus paper.
Dislikes the word "protoplasm", because improved microscopes will uncover more fundamental substances. Also "plasma" merely hides the ignorance of modern chemists.
Expects waxy, glaucous-leaved plants to be most frequent in dry temperate climates.
Electrotypes of woodcuts [of Forms of flowers] are ready for Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Murray has printed 1250 copies, instead of 1000 as planned.
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Suggests plant hairs protect them from insects either mechanically or by stinging.
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
CD’s curious observations on Trifolium resupinatum.
Describes a Maranta remarkable for its leaf asymmetry: its leaves are elliptical on one side and oblong on the other.
Counted 40 worm-holes after rain; four or five in the wall.