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Has failed with his experiments on aerial roots.

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Thanks for plants

and case of sleeping Crotalaria.

"Bloom" for the present has "gone to the dogs".

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Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.

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Has been writing life of Erasmus Darwin.

Wants plants with heliotropic aerial roots. Has proved root apex governs nature of flexure in upper part of root.

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Sleep in Crotalaria.

Report of John Ball’s lecture to Geographical Society: Alpine flora is direct descendant of Palaeozoic flora ["On the origin of the flora of the European Alps", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1: 564–88].

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Movements in Oxalis.

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Asks for identification of an Oxalis flower.

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Wants some apheliotropic plants for experiments.

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Wants cryptogam identified; has been observing its movements.

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Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.

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H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.

CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.

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Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.

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Thanks for second edition of Duchartre.

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Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].

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Wants a plant identified;

would like some cotton seeds.

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Wants a plant that shows interesting sleep movements identified.

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Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.

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Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].

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Heliotropic movements. Is giving up experiments until the spring.

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Thanks for seeds and for kindness to Frank Darwin.