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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
12 July [1873]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828)
Summary:

Thanks JLGK for photos of natives of Queensland.

Asks if he can observe whether worms throw up castings in wet weather.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
12 July 1873
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Seeks the assistance of a professional chemist in securing a qualitative analysis of the fluid secreted by the glands of Drosera which have the power of dissolving animal matter out of the bodies of insects. [See 8979.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project