From W. E. Darwin [19? July 1874]

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9554.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22, vol. 24-Supplement.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9554,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 9 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9554

Summary

WED encloses a letter from H. M. Wilkinson about Utricularia and sundew.

H. M. Wilkinson has examined bladders of Utricularia; doubts that they absorb or digest insects.

H. M. Wilkinson describes dragonfly trapped by sundew [Drosera].

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-9554
From: William Erasmus Darwin
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: [19? July 1874]
Sent from: Southampton
Source of text: Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 53); DAR 58.1: 135–6
Physical description: 4pp encl 4pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22, vol. 24-Supplement.