From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
CD cannot say he cares greatly about his election to the Institut but he does care for the sympathy of his friends.
Will look to Smilax when he returns to Down.
Regrets the insecurity of the identification of fossil leaves.
He has heard that De Bary has cultivated Utricularia with and without aquatic animals and that the plants that have been fed flourished "in a stupendous manner".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project