From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
26 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 143: 156
Summary:
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 337
Summary:
Offers to experiment on the digestibility of chondrin and chlorophyll by Dionaea for CD.
Has noticed that painters depicting complex expressions give different expressions to the two sides of the face.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Dec 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project