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Movements of flower-stalks of Oxalis.

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Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.

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Wants Impatiens seeds, in order to observe movements of cotyledons.

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CD hopes his book [Movement in plants] will be worth the effort WTT-D has put into getting plants for him; fears he has achieved little.

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Sends specimens of Commelyna.

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Movements in Oxalis.

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

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Heliotropic movements. Is giving up experiments until the spring.

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

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Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].

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Thanks for second edition of Duchartre.

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Thanks for seeds and for kindness to Frank Darwin.

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Wants a Cassia identified

and several plants and seeds for experimental purposes.

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Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.

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Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.

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Asks for identification of an Oxalis flower.

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Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.

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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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Thanks for plants

and case of sleeping Crotalaria.

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