From:
Charles O’Shaughnessy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 173: 40
Summary:
He has confuted Descent.
Enclosures announce his cures of potato blight, epilepsy, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
He has confuted Descent.
Enclosures announce his cures of potato blight, epilepsy, etc.
Has confirmed CD’s observations on Drosera.
Asks whether CD agrees that it is "no longer a fact" that the bladders of Utricularia vulgaris enable the plant to become lighter for fecundation and heavier when that act is accomplished. Plans to undertake further observations, under very high-powered microscopes, of mechanism of digestion.
Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.