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DCP-LETT-2956

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2957

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
20 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Richard John Levy and Sally Waldman Sweet collection: box 2, folder 12)
Summary:

Thanks for fact about ducks in Ceylon. Asks for more information.

Pleased by GHKT’s sentence [about Origin].

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