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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Date:

[before 15 July 1874]

Source of text:

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 38–9)

Summary:

Suggests experiments to try [with Nepenthes]. Asks JDH to test whether cabbage seeds and peas exposed to the ferment germinate.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders

Date:

15 July 1874

Source of text:

American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)

Summary:

Discusses effect of atropine solution on eye,

and effect of phosphate of ammonia solution on gland of Drosera.

Would like to see work by T. W. Engelmann and possibly one by Dr De Ruyter.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project