To H. N. Ridley 16 April [1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
April. 16th
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you for so kindly sending me the Saxifrage, & am glad to hear about the gnats.—2 In my book on Insectivorous Plants, I have shown that the glands in this genus certainly possess some power of absorption.—3
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Thanks for Saxifraga. CD had shown in Insectivorous plants [pp. 345–7] that this genus had some powers of absorption.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10931
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Nicholas Ridley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–81: f. 43)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10931,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10931.xml