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Sends a "guess" about Mimosa leaf structure as an answer to one of CD’s questions.

Has found a Passiflora princeps.

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Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?

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Observations on Passiflora.

Hildebrand on geraniums.

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What does Torbitt propose to do with CD’s £100; does he want another £100 now or soon?

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Has sent F. Müller "a long screed" about the Passiflora.

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Counted 40 worm-holes after rain; four or five in the wall.

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Caird agrees that there will be no difficulty in getting finances.

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Suggests Torbitt make a report on his progress so far.

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Agrees that CD should write to the Times [about Torbitt’s potato experiments].

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Potatoes [from Torbitt experiment] sent him for eating were very poor. Those for seed produced abundantly, but have not resisted disease better than other kinds that Payne [his gardener] has grown.

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Thanks CD for lesson that it is wrong to call any plant which lives and thrives "degraded".

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On death of his wife. Botany a solace.

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Hopes affairs will enable him to get back to flowers.

Huxley’s letter [about the fund raised for him] was noble. Would like to have seen CD’s to him.

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Agrees that it is wise to delay [publishing?] on Passiflora.

Puts queries he wants CD to send [to Fritz Müller] on bees visiting flowers in winter.

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Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.

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Encloses note and cheque from James Caird [for Torbitt].

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Encloses letter from James Caird, who has entire confidence in CD’s appropriation of the money [collected for Torbitt’s experiments].

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Is confirmed about the bending of the fly orchid pollinia. [See "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 141.]

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Thanks CD for advice to watch the action and not only the structure [of plants].