RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Draft fragment of Insectivorous plants. CUL-DAR60.2.78. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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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Whether these are really at all analogous to the convulsions of animals subjected to carbonic acid is very doubtful; for such are known to suffer from convulsions which are believed Baron (Brown— believes, as stated in Journal of Anat. and Phys. Nov. 1872. p. 197) to be that such convulsions are directly due to the gas, and not as I imagine to be the case with the movements of Drosera from the subsequent access of oxygen owing to the … exclusion or oxygen.)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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