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Observations of leaf movement at Würzburg Botanic Garden.

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Reports observations on day and night movement in Porlieria.

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Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.

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Needs more money to pay his tutoring bills.

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Sends list of bills.

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Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.

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Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.

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Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].

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Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.

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Quickening of heart-beat in fear. A. H. Garrod does not think that this means that the heart is working harder.

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Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.

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Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.

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FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.

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Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.

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Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.

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Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller’s microscope in Paris.

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Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).

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Thanks for the cheque, and also for the offer to pay for him to go on a trip to north America with G. H. Darwin.