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Sends correction to p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877].

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Would be honoured to have Cross and self fertilisation translated into French by EH; he has written to his French publisher, Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald.

EH’s notes will add interest and he would like to read them.

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Supervising French translation of Movement in plants. Why does not CD consider spontaneous movements of flower parts, which EMH sees also as circumnutation?

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CD grateful to EH for making his works known in France.

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Asks EH to make a small correction in his translation [of Cross and self-fertilisation].

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Sends photograph.

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Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.

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Thinks EH’s translation of Cross and self-fertilisation [1877] is excellent.

Would like him to do Forms of flowers, but Reinwald is afraid to have it translated in the present political state of France.

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Has read and greatly admires CD’s latest book, Cross and self-fertilisation; seeks permission to translate it into French and to add some annotations. [EMH’s translation was published in 1877.]

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Édouard Heckel will translate Movement in plants.

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Has no objection to Édouard Heckel’s preface to the French translation of Movement in Plants.

Sends some additions for the French translation of Earthworms.

Wouls like a copy of the French translation of Movement in Plants sent to Gaston de Saporta, Charles Frédéric Martins and Charles Victor Naudin.

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Concerning French translation of Earthworms

and Movement in plants.

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Asks advice on size of printing for Movement in plants. Expects it to sell a few copies for some years. Asks price of paper and of printing of 250 copies. Sends instructions for the index.

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Second edition of Edmond Barbier’s revised translation of Origin selling out; third one to be published.

A new edition of Variation, virtually retranslated by Barbier, is in press.

Second edition of Descent selling out.

CD’s botanical books are losing money.

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Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.

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Annual report on sale of Reinwald editions of CD’s works.

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Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.

Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.

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Forms of flowers, translated by Édouard Heckel, is published.

Cross and self-fertilisation has only sold 450–500 copies.

Origin sells regularly; he looks forward to a cheaper edition.

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Pleased CD is satisfied with translation of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Sends £20 royalties for Insectivorous plants (700 sold).

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Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.