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Germination of Cactaceae; CD wants seeds. Site of action of growth-stimuli.

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Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.

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Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.

Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.

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Thanks for seeds and plants.

News of Francis and Horace Darwin.

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Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".

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Did not know cabbage contained so much nitrogen.

Pinguicula more excited by seeds than Drosera. Asks for information about Pinguicula.

Asks name of weed.

Asks to borrow Utricularia plant.

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Wishes to identify a species of Cassia whose movements interest him.

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Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.

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CD hopes his book [Movement in plants] will be worth the effort WTT-D has put into getting plants for him; fears he has achieved little.

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Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.

Working hard on plant movements.

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Wants some plants for observation and for experimentation on their powers of movement.

Asks WTT-D to make observations on plants with sensitive stamens or pistil.

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Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.

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Progress of his and Frank Darwin’s work; "all natural science seems now to depend on section-cutting".

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Letter from Gaston de Saporta.

Germination of onion.

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Information on plants requested by CD.

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Wants a plant that shows interesting sleep movements identified.

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Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.

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Cancelled: part of 11847

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Thanks WTT-D for his comments on and praise of his book [Forms of flowers].

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Must stop work on "bloom" and leaf movements if he is ever to get anything published on Drosera, etc.

Sends thanks for seeds. Encloses memorandum in case WTT-D wishes to communicate information to Royal Horticultural Society. Has not time to prepare article.

Discusses condition of plants borrowed from Kew.