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Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.

Has some articles that might interest FD.

Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.

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Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.

Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.

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Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].

Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].

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Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.

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Sends an article for FD.

Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.

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Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.

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Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.

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Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.

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Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.

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Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]

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Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.

Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].

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Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.

On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.