My dear Sir

I write merely to thank you for your very kind offer to send me more specimens and seed of Drosophyllum;² but I will not trouble you, for they would be superfluous. Strangely 3 of your plants, after being sickly, have perfectly recovered and are growing vigorously and have produced plenty of seed! They catch abundance of insects; but I cannot make out anything peculiar about their structure or functions. I suppose it is my soil; for they cannot succeed at Kew.³ I am going to give one or two of my plants to Kew and seed. D^r Hooker has made out that the genus is certainly closely allied to Drosera, though having such different habits.⁴ The case of the Lizard is very interesting and shall certainly be quoted, if I ever live to come to embryology.⁵

With my best thanks. Pray believe me | yours sincerely and obliged | Ch. Darwin.