To Francis Darwin [after 27 May 1881]1
[Down.]
My dear F.
All your corrections in Ch. III. very good & almost all accepted. Thank Heavens that is done.— I send Nature.—2
Caution the man who is going to try Drosera about giving very little animal matter; remind him that naturally the plant gets only what it can get by osmosis through the chitinous skin of insects.—3 I believe hard white of egg is very innocent food. Especially tell him that Van Tieghem objects to your experiments, because you ought to have another set of plants with same sized bits of meat strewed on the ground.4 This seems to me hair-splitting. Van T. seems to hate the whole subject of insectivorous plants.—
I enjoyed surprisingly Richters music— it was wonderful & I wish that you had been here.5 There is something very pleasing in him.—
Yours affect | C. Darwin
Dubba came & listened, sitting on Ettys lap & gaped tremendously.6
(Ch. IV. just arrived.)7
Footnotes
Bibliography
Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.
Richter, Hans. 1882. Hanns Richter bei Darwin. Signale für die musikalische Welt 4: 497–9.
Tieghem, Philippe van. 1884. Traité de botanique. Paris: F. Savy.
Summary
Thanks FD for corrections [for Earthworms].
Discusses experiments on absorption in Drosera.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13181
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 211: 78
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13181,” accessed on 4 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13181.xml