60 GEOEGE JOHN EOMANES 1876- 



by section, and the fact that stimulus (tentacular) 

 waves very often continue to pass after the contractile 

 ones have been thus blocked. 



I am sorry I made the ungallant mistake about 

 Miss Lawless, but I had no means of knowing. If I 

 had known I should not have written the letter, be- 

 cause I am almost sure the movements of the Medusa 

 were accidental, and my pointing out this source of 

 error may be discouraging to a lady observer. 



I remember thinking you were too diffident about 

 the bloom, but I suppose that is the advantage of 

 experience ; it keeps one from forming too high hopes 

 at the first. 



The rest of your letter contains glorious news. 

 Cohn, I suppose, is about the best man in Europe to 

 take up the subject, and although I cannot conceive 

 what else he can do than Frank has done already, it 

 is no doubt most desirable that his opinion should be 

 formed by working at the problems himself. 



The other item about the effects of feeding Drosera 

 is really most important, and in particular about the 

 starch. I have heard the doubts you allude to 

 expressed in several quarters, but this will set them 

 all at rest. It was just the one thing required to cap 

 the work on insectivorous plants. What capital work 

 Frank is doing ! 



I have nothing in the way of ' boasting ' to set 

 off against it. The year has been a very bad one for 

 jelly-fish, so that sometimes I have not been able 

 to work at them for several days at a time. The most 

 important new observation is perhaps the following. 



Suppose a portion of Aurelia to be cut into the 



