To T. L. Brunton   3 December 1873

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.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-9168

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet

Date

3 Dec 1873

Sent from

Down

Source of text

American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)

Physical description

4pp

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21.

• Brunton, T. L.
• Darwin, C. R.