From:
Louis Grenier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 475
Summary:
Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.
Thanks CD for his authorisation for the résumé which LG will read to the Société Botanique de Lyon.
Insectivorous plants has made a sensation in France. Some are for, some against. Some doubt that a plant could absorb and assimilate the matter dissolved by the secretions. Asks CD if N. B. Ward’s method of culture might be used to answer the question definitively.