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Some papers have arrived for FD.

Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.

Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.

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Sends further chapters of Earthworms for correction.

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News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).

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Sorry to hear CD is unwell. Hopes outing [to Patterdale] will benefit him.

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Discusses possible investments.

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Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.

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Dispatches chapters six and seven [of Earthworms].

Asks for any opinions on V. Hensen and his book, Physiologie der Zeugung [1881], which seems interesting.

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Agrees to sit for portrait. Thinks John Collier is a good artist, an opinion based on his portrait of Hooker.

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Thanks for WTT-D’s attempts to get the Trifolium seeds.

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Would like to visit CD. Has not seen him for 40 years.

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Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.

Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.

Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.

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Suggests CD delay arrangements for his Linnean Society portrait. GJR thinks John Collier would be willing to paint it.

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Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.

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Thanks FD for corrections [for Earthworms].

Discusses experiments on absorption in Drosera.

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Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.