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Thanks EBT for gift of Anthropology [1881].

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Encourages HMW’s study of growth of hair on ears. Recommends he publish findings in Nature.

Comments on facts about goatsucker and dorkings.

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Wishes the society and its publications every success.

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Reports splendid cases of "paraheliotropism" which he now believes is one of the commonest movements of plants.

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Wants Monochaetum flowers for examination as he has forgotten the structure and cannot publish until he has repeated his observations and experiments.

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Thanks for Monochaetum flowers; his old notes have now become intelligible.

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

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About Francis Darwin’s application for election to [Royal] Society.

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Earthworm book with printer.

Has sent FM’s observations on paraheliotropism to Nature ["Movement of leaves", Collected papers 2: 228–9].

Plants with differently coloured anthers.

Intends gathering together his notes on "bloom".

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CD gives his opinion on vivisection with the understanding that the whole letter will be published. Worked for Act of Parliament, but disapproves of the one passed. CD convinced English physiologists do not perform cruel experiments.

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Discusses concept of intelligence in his Earthworms manuscript.

Remarks on GJR’s work on echinoderms.

Comments on Wilhelm Roux [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].

Discusses animal instincts, citing Fabre’s description of sand-wasps.

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Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.

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Obliged for extract from Gardeners’ Chronicle about Russian wheat. "It is a capital instance of one var. gradually beating out another."

Cannot remember where he put G. Henslow’s note [on the cotyledon of grass embryos].

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Discusses GJR’s experiments on heliotropism in plants; views of Philippe van Tieghem and Julius von Wiesner. Describes his own experiments.

Mentions his letter on vivisection [to Frithiof Holmgren, see 13115] in the Times [18 Apr 1881].

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Wants Trifolium seed.

Has been rereading WTT-D’s letters on "bloom".

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Vivisection; CD’s exchange with Holmgren.

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Replies to F. P. Cobbe’s letter [Times 19 Apr 1881] accusing CD of having misinformed his Swedish correspondent about the findings of the Royal Commission on vivisection.

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Cannot give lecture.

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CD will not permit publication of his previous letter on vivisection.

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Comments on GJR’s letter in the Times [25 Apr 1881] concerning vivisection. Mentions activity of anti-vivisectionists, G. R. Jesse and F. P. Cobbe.