From:
Louis Grenier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 475
Summary:
Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.
Encloses a letter to be forwarded to CD [see 10212].
Thanks CD for his authorisation for the résumé which LG will read to the Société Botanique de Lyon.
Insectivorous plants has made a sensation in France. Some are for, some against. Some doubt that a plant could absorb and assimilate the matter dissolved by the secretions. Asks CD if N. B. Ward’s method of culture might be used to answer the question definitively.