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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9168 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 December 1873
Summary
A letter from Anton Dohrn declines the proposed fund [that THH and others suggested be raised in England for marine biological station at Naples].
Hooker’s inaugural as President of Royal Society a success.
R. Owen distinguished himself in his way.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 330; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 252) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9169 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Addressee
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
