RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1872]. M. S. 1872 / draft of Insectivorous plants. CUL-DAR56.149. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR 54-61 contain material for Darwin's book Insectivorous plants (1875).
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M. S. 1872
to be any difference in their degree of tenderness.
It is certain that the secretion has does not action act on the thick chitinous covering of beetles as I know by trial; nor this could this have been expected. Nevertheless from the power of exosmose, as the secretion is very dense, exosmose, fluid matter would almost certainly pass out, [4 words in pencil illeg] owing to exosmose of the insects thus bathed, at least through the thinner parts of their chitinous external coverings.) especially especially in the case [text excised]
[in margin:] Hair — Gum — Cutting
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