From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 60–1
Summary:
Sends cartilage from cat’s ear, the elastic fibres of which will probably resist digestion [by Drosera]. Is preparing fibro-cartilage, which he expects will be digested easily. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 104.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project