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DCP-LETT-8976

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 141
Summary:

Believes some flowers fail to produce seed because of the access of too great a quantity of pollen. Asks for CD’s opinion and references.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8977A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
12 July 1873
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Seeks the assistance of a professional chemist in securing a qualitative analysis of the fluid secreted by the glands of Drosera which have the power of dissolving animal matter out of the bodies of insects. [See 8979.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8975

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
12 July [1873]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828)
Summary:

Thanks JLGK for photos of natives of Queensland.

Asks if he can observe whether worms throw up castings in wet weather.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8977

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 218
Summary:

Sends his paper on Ophrys insectifera, translated into German by H. G. Reichenbach [Abh. Kais. Leopold.-Carol. Dtsch. Akad. Naturforsch. 33 (1870) no. 3], which shows the intermediates between O. aranifera and O. apifera. He has since gathered information on variation in Ophrys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8959

From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 114
Summary:

JLGK’s public advocacy of Darwinism brings him into numerous arguments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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