To Lawson Tait 17 [July 1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
J. 17th
My dear Sir
I thank you for your extremely kind note.—2 I did not answer, as you told me I might not, your former notes to Abinger, as I was quite worn out.—3 I wish I cd. help you about D. binata, but I hardly know Lady D. Nevill well enough to borrow plants for a third party.—4
You are aware that Dr Hooker has worked hard at Nepenthes & will soon publish: I told him to try the secretion of pitchers which had caught no insects, & it cd. not digest.5 Therefore to get the ferment, it wd be necessary to give some nitrogenous compound, & wd. not this make the separation of the ferment very difficult?—
In Haste | yours sincerely | Ch Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Informs RLT of J. D. Hooker’s work on Nepenthes ["Nepenthaceae, Cytinaceae", in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by A. P. de Candolle (1873), 17: 90–116].
Has asked JDH to try secretions of pitchers that had caught no insects.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10023
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- Sent from
- Abinger Hall Down letterhead
- Source of text
- DAR 221.5: 27
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp (photocopy)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10023,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10023.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
