From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 24 (EH 88206008)
Summary:
DO’s candidacy for Professorship of Botany [at University College, London].
Henrietta’s health is better.
Paper in Botanische Zeitung [T. Nitschke, "Über die Reizbarkeit der Blätter von Drosera rotundifolia", 18: 229–34, 237–45, 245–50] missed leading point that plants close longer over animal substances. Carbonate of ammonia works on Lemna and Euphorbia roots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project