Thanks for references for R. L. Tait.
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Thanks for references for R. L. Tait.
Requests orchid specimens for experiment.
Thanks for WTT-D’s kindness about the orchids.
Thanks for Catasetum and other specimens.
Discusses the death of his daughter-in-law.
Plans to visit Southampton.
Would like Catasetum and Acropera plants.
Asks GB to send him flowers of the two forms of Boronia pinnata, as he is republishing his papers on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers].
Sends copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.
Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation
and for information about Mussaenda.
Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.
Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.
Thanks for Saxifraga. CD had shown in Insectivorous plants [pp. 345–7] that this genus had some powers of absorption.
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
Thanks GB for corrections to chapter on cleistogamic flowers [Forms of flowers].
Asks for his opinion on "bloom"-producing plants in different climates.
"Frank and I are working very hard on ""bloom"" and sleep" [movements]. Asks for succulent species for experiment.
Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.
Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.
Describes experiments on sensitivity of plant leaves to water.
Frank [Darwin] has found that Drosera leaves fed with meat contain more starch.
Thanks for the plants.
Is doubtful whether he will make out anything about "bloom".
Thanks R. I. Lynch for his MS on Averrhoa.
Requests plants that show movement, and any with "bloom" living near the sea.
Thanks for plants.
Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.
WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.