Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker 23 October [1873]
Darwin, Charles Robert
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'><i>Neptunia</i> is evidently a hopeless case.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Good news that fluid of <i>Nepenthes</i> is acid.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>No discovery ever gave him more pleasure than proving a true act of digestion in <i>Drosera</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has become profoundly interested in <i>Desmodium</i>. Asks whether Frank [Darwin] can look over the whole dried collection of the genus.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has JDH any seed of <i>Lathyrus nissolia</i>?</p>