To Daniel Oliver 20 October [1860]
Summary
Will take Natural History Review, but cannot write for it.
Has mass of notes on irritability in orchids,
but he ought to work on Variation.
Drosera was an interlude while away from home. Expectations for effect of carbonate of ammonia on Dionaea. The important phenomenon in Drosera is the segregation of the red fluid within the leaf, not action of carbonate of ammonia on the red fluid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 20 (EH 88206004) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2956 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 20 October [1860]
Summary
Thanks for fact about ducks in Ceylon. Asks for more information.
Pleased by GHKT’s sentence [about Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Richard John Levy and Sally Waldman Sweet collection: box 2, folder 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2957 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
