646 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1874, 
reclaim your work from Bennett, who began to ap- 
propriate it, etc., ete. 
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 ahs 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.” ! 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. 
