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DCP-LETT-9368

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Mar 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-16)
Summary:

Sends his MS on Dionaea and hopes it may be useful for JSBS’s lecture ["On the mechanism of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 7 (1874): 332–5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9381

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
31 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-5)
Summary:

Thanks for the careful experiments, particularly on organic acids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9441

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
5 May [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-4)
Summary:

Thanks for the acid digestion experiments, which can be printed as they are. CD trying Drosera on dentine and enamel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9459

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
14 May 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-17)
Summary:

Discusses digestion by insectivorous plants, asks JSBS to try same experiments using pepsin as the digestive agent to see how the results compare with CD’s observations on digestive power of Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9473

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
27 May [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-3)
Summary:

Thanks JSBS for his work. CD concludes the ferment of Drosera must differ from pepsin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
12 June 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-18)
Summary:

JSBS’s article in Nature ["Venus’s fly-trap", 10 (1874): 105–7, 127–8] could not have been better done.

Has found another plant, Pinguicula, which can catch and digest flies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
21 June [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-2)
Summary:

Thanks for fibrin. Drosera and Pinguicula dissolve it thoroughly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9605

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-25); DAR 147: 415 (copy)
Summary:

Reports difficulties in experiments on digestion of fibro-cartilage. Asks about JSBS’s experiments with artificial digestive fluids.

JSBS must read Hooker’s address at Belfast [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 103–16] to see what a magnificent digester Nepenthes is.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9669

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-19)
Summary:

Has been testing the digestive powers of Drosera; wants to know whether a group of substances that elicit similar responses are related.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Oct 1874
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-20)
Summary:

Discusses the powers of digestion of Drosera and why certain substances produce less excitement in the plant than others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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