To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 27 May [1874]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 27th
My dear Dr. Sanderson
Your information is invaluable to me. For Heaven sake do not apologise for delay, for it makes me feel more guilty in having given you such immense trouble. If all fibrous basis of bone is dissolved by artificial gastric juice, & if, as I understand all gluten & all fibrin is dissolved with the fatty acids & pepsin, the ferment of Drosera must differ considerably from pepsin.2
Yours very truly | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Thanks JSBS for his work. CD concludes the ferment of Drosera must differ from pepsin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9473
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-3)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9473,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9473.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
