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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
20 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 820
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Thanks CD for his authorisation for the résumé which LG will read to the Société Botanique de Lyon.
Insectivorous plants has made a sensation in France. Some are for, some against. Some doubt that a plant could absorb and assimilate the matter dissolved by the secretions. Asks CD if N. B. Ward’s method of culture might be used to answer the question definitively.