Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
Sends specimens of Byblis, Roridula, and Utricularia for CD’s examination.
Suggests an explanation for difference in excitability of Drosera leaves to meat and albumen on the one hand and, on the other, fibrin, areolar tissue, gelatin, and fibrous basis of bone.
Announces arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at Canterbury, New Zealand.
CD responds [to 9667] with description of his own effort to study Aldrovanda and his observations on the structure of Dionaea.
His admiration for FJC’s earlier studies of the Venus’s fly-trap.
He urges FJC to proceed promptly with publication of his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 1, Heft 3 (1875): 71–92].