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DCP-LETT-10352

From:
William Henry Dallinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 162: 33
Summary:

Has confirmed CD’s observations on Drosera.

Asks whether CD agrees that it is "no longer a fact" that the bladders of Utricularia vulgaris enable the plant to become lighter for fecundation and heavier when that act is accomplished. Plans to undertake further observations, under very high-powered microscopes, of mechanism of digestion.

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DCP-LETT-10354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Dallinger
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1876]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS CG/u/3)
Summary:

CD has read all of WHD’s and J. J. Drysdale’s papers [on spontaneous generation, monads, and the origin of life] and finds them the best work on the subject.

The function of bladders in Utricularia is not to float the plant.

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