646 TEA VEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1874, 



reclaim your work from Bennett, who began to ap- 

 propriate it, etc., etc. 



It is already leading to discovery. A physician in 

 Carolina, a good observer, already writes me that in 

 S. variolaris, the best of Sarracenias, he thinks he 

 finds the watery liquid anesthetic (??) and the sweet 

 secretion not. But he says there is a line of sweet, a 

 trail, running from the sweet rim down the edge of 

 the wing outside nearly to the ground, which lures up 

 ants (with which Wyman tells me the pitchers are 

 crowded), just like the train of Indian corn which 

 hunters scatter along the ground to lure wild turkeys 

 into the trap ! Does not that beat all ! 



Also my articles here resulted in the discovery re- 

 lated in the paper inclosed. The take-off of Thom- 

 son's germs from another planet is good. 



June 16. 



. . . The gratification I feel in learning (by yours 

 of the 3d) that you are pleased must, I am sure, ex- 

 ceed any satisfaction of yours in regard to my sub- 

 dued and quiet article in "Nature." 1 Lockyer, to my 

 great surprise, applied to me for it, and of course 

 I could not refuse. I think it will generally be re- 

 garded by scientific people as just and moderate. 



Odd that you should not have recognized my hand 

 from the first in the " Insectivorous Plants," writ- 

 ten, in fact, to vindicate your rights. The papers 

 called forth a second hoax, as elaborate as the first, 

 and much better done. I have no idea who wrote 

 them. 



You must, meanwhile, have received the article in 

 the " Nation," reviewing Dr. Hodge's " What is Dar- 

 winism ? ' You see what uphill work I have in 



1 "Life of Charles Darwin," in Nature, June 4, 1874. 



