From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 28
Summary:
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
Wonders if it is possible that the couvade had its origin in an early habit of the male sex to take part in the nourishment of the offspring.
His opinion of the couvade.
Asks whether he might copy two of FJC’s drawings of Aldrovanda. He would like to have a proof of the plate for two woodcuts to be used in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Returning the plants DO had sent him from Kew