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Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.

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Observations on insectivorous plants.

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Thanks WCM for plant.

Mentions "your new room" at Down.

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Thinks most of the experimental onions have died. Suspects the red and white were distinct species. If GJR is not "sick of the whole job" he might try with radishes or carrots.

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Discusses animal intelligence.

Advises GJR on acquiring monkey.

Sends book by Delboeuf [La psychologie (1876)].

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Sends geese to CD.

Crossbreeding of Chinese and common geese; believes they may be same species.

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The geese have arrived. Does not think FBG’s view that the two forms are domestic varieties will hold good. Many ornithologists put them in different genera, and the wild type of each is known.

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Thanks for letter and book [J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

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Thanks CD for his subscription to the bust in honour of Theodor Schwann.

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Has forwarded what he believes to be a new species of Solanum.

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Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.

Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.

Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.

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He has been working hard at Kew for two days.

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Sends photographs showing expressions in a young boy.

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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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Requests support for his appointment as Superintendent of Epping Forest.

Working on a book [Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel, edited and extended by A. R. Wallace (1879)].

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Will be interested to read BP’s work on history [of evolution?].

A learned Jew in Poland [Napthali Lewy?] has published a volume showing that evolution is an ancient belief.

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Supports Epping Forest appointment.

Continues work on vegetable physiology.

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Apologises for his error over the Solanum.

Thanks CD for his good wishes; JT believes he will increase yield and disease-resistance by his crossing and selection.

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Drosera species vary in form depending upon conditions. Send specimens

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Writing on vegetable physiology.

Nothing in CD’s life has ever interested him more than the fertilisation of such plants as Primula and Lythrum.