From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 20 (EH 88206004)
Summary:
Will take Natural History Review, but cannot write for it.
Has mass of notes on irritability in orchids,
but he ought to work on Variation.
Drosera was an interlude while away from home. Expectations for effect of carbonate of ammonia on Dionaea. The important phenomenon in Drosera is the segregation of the red fluid within the leaf, not action of carbonate of ammonia on the red fluid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project