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Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.

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Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.

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Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

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First proof of errata slip for inclusion in Insectivorous plants 2d thousand.

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Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].

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Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.

Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.

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Errata slip forInsectivorous plants

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Sorry he was out when CD called.

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Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].

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Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.

Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.

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CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Akademie.

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Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.

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Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.

Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".

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Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].

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Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.

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No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.

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His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.

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Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.

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Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.

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Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.

Asks permission to translate Expression.

The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.