To J. D. Hooker 23 October [1873]
Summary
Neptunia is evidently a hopeless case.
Good news that fluid of Nepenthes is acid.
No discovery ever gave him more pleasure than proving a true act of digestion in Drosera.
Has become profoundly interested in Desmodium. Asks whether Frank [Darwin] can look over the whole dried collection of the genus.
Has JDH any seed of Lathyrus nissolia?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 282–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9108 |
From W. S. Wade 23 October 1873
Summary
Further details on inheritance of an eyelid abnormality.
| Author: | William Swift Wade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9109 |
To Francis Darwin 23 October [1873]
Summary
Wants FD to look at the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium. CD has "a wild hypothesis that the little leaflets may be tendrils reconverted into leaflets".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9110 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Wade, W. S. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wade, W. S. | (1) |
