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From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 268
Summary:

Drosera plants grown with insects excluded have developed normally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 269
Summary:

Sending specimens of Drosera grown without insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 270
Summary:

Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 271
Summary:

Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cross
Date:
6 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is much interested in a change in Drosera reported by GC, but "rather doubts" exclusion of insects can have caused it; would like to see the plant and suggests sending it to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project