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Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.
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Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".
Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.
Sleeping plants.
Is pleased FD’s climbing work goes well.
Thanks him for information on heliotropism.
Discusses sleep movements
and his observations on the sensitivity of radicle tips.
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Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.
Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.
Invites CD and Mrs Darwin to stay at his home if they plan to attend the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences, 16–21 August, and the seventh session of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 22–9 August.
CD elected corresponding member in the botanical section of the Académie des Sciences, Paris. [See 11653.]
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Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.
On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.