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Asks WED to observe whether worms consistently draw acacia leaves into their burrows with a particular end first.

Will soon know whether he will need worm-castings from Beaulieu.

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CD may not mean same thing as WTT-D by absorbent pegs in Abronia.

F. O. Bower’s paper on Welwitschia [germination] [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 21 (1881): 15–30] will appear in January.

Has observed earthworms for CD: they do not draw Robinia leaves into burrows by the petioles.

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Wants information on Fritz Müller’s papers bearing on Weismann’s work.

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CD does "not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation".

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Announces proposal to make CD an Honorary Member of La Scuola Italica.

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Asks GEM to thank La Scuola Italica for the honour conferred upon him.

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References to Fritz Müller’s papers relevant to Weismann’s Studien [in Kosmos (Aug, Sept, and Oct 1877)].

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Will be pleased to have VOK come to Down any day.

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Thanks for Movement in plants.

Describes work [on Pflanzenphysiologie, 2 vols. (1881)].

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Sends his book [Naturwissenschaftliche Thatsachen und Probleme. Populäre Vorträge (1880)].

Anxious to receive Movement in plants because CD’s methods may be applicable to his experiments on the earliest movements of animal embryos.

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Thanks for his great work on prehistoric remains in Portugal and his paper on Tertiary formations.

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Praise for Movement in plants.

He thinks G. A. Chatin, whom CD quotes [p. 389], is mistaken about movement of conifer leaves. Cites his own paper ["Relations between morphology and physiology in the leaves of certain conifers", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 17 (1880): 547–52].

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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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Huxley has persuaded JDH that the Wallace memorial may not be hopeless; JDH still has misgivings about Wallace’s spiritualism but will follow CD’s and Huxley’s decision.

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Observations on worms’ pulling leaves into their burrows.

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Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants. It will be reviewed in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 258–71] by Hermann Müller.

Kosmos will probably cease publication. Publisher has decided to sell.

Fritz Müller has suffered from flood.

Müller’s latest letter contains a polemic against Wagner’s migration theory,

and some interesting observations on Crustacea.

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Is glad that Hooker will sign memorial for Wallace’s pension. Had thought it hopeless because Hooker objected to ARW’s spiritualism and his bet on the sphericity of the globe.

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Thanks to Times review, Murray needs 500 more copies [of Movement in plants].

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Has heard of flood from which Fritz Müller escaped. Has he lost books, microscope, apparatus? Offers £50 or £100.

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Will send copy of Movement in plants.

Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].