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To Daniel Oliver 16 November [1860]
Summary
One thirty-thousandth of a grain of human hair inflects a single Drosera hair. Astonished by his results so he is not publishing until next summer. [Not published until 1875, Insectivorous plants. See ch. 2 for observations on inflection.]
Wants to study effects of acids on live Dionaea. Oliver should do their anatomy. Corresponding with chemical physiologists about carbonate of ammonia on roots.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 16 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 26 (EH 88206010) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2985 |
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
