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DCP-LETT-9013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Aug 1873
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-13)
Summary:

Thinks it would be worth while testing for electrical changes in the leaves of insectivorous plants.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9029

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
27 Aug 1873
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.6103 ff.101)
Summary:

CD can provide leaves of Dionaea if JSBS wishes to investigate electric currents in them.

His experiments show that the digestive action of Drosera seems like that of true digestion.

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