From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 326–7
Summary:
The Acacia must be Belt’s "Bulls’ horns".
The complexity of Utricularia has driven Frank and CD almost mad. Suspects it is necrophagous, i.e., it cannot digest, but absorbs decaying animal matter.
Foster is certainly in error. Every insect that Drosera catches causes aggregation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
