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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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Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.

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Asks what position the sub-peduncles assume when the main flower peduncle of Oxalis is tied so as to be horizontal.

Asks whether FD can find some plants at Kew for CD to trace epinastic and hyponastic movements.

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Hopes to get another species of Desmodium from Mr Rollisson.

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Notes and replies to queries on worm-castings and worm activity on a rubble-covered road.

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Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.

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Returns book [W. O. Focke, Pflanzen-Mischlinge]. It was of great use.

Suggests experiment involving light stimulation of plants.

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CD interested by FM’s facts on movement of plants; has sent some to Nature ["Movement of leaves", Collected papers 2: 228–9]. Greatly admires FM’s work. Suggests an experiment to investigate movement in Phyllanthus.

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Can the correspondent get some pamphlets written by [K. G. W. Stenzel?].

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Supports idea to translate C. K. Sprengel, but opposes publishing it together with H. Müller because this would raise price of Müller’s useful book.

Confirms JDH’s observation that only tip of cabbage radicle shows geotropism.

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Thanks AdeC for interesting letter. CD has been annoyed by the multitude of new terms lately invented in all branches of biology in Germany. What AdeC says about the word "purpose" made CD vow not to use it again, but it is difficult to cure oneself of a vicious habit and difficult to avoid for anyone who tries to make out the use of a structure.

Francis will write about the diagram [see 13642].

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CD is familiar with EJL’s work [on Asplenium movements]; finds Asplenium an unusual case.

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Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].

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Sends the name of a plant: Cotyledon stolonifera.

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FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.

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Thanks for Movement in plants, which confirms HV’s unpublished conclusions concerning gravity and the horizontal bending of radicles.

[CD note forwards letter to Francis Darwin.]

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Wants Impatiens seeds, in order to observe movements of cotyledons.

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Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.

Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.

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