To F. J. Cohn 31 March [1876]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
March 31
My dear Sir
It is a great pleasure to me to receive a letter from you whom I have so long honoured.1 I am much obliged for Dr Fraustadt’s paper on Dionæa and I beg you to thank him for it. As I read German very slowly I will wait until I receive the plates which you kindly say that you will send me.2 I am glad that the structure of all insectivorous plants will now be thoroughly investigated.3 Perhaps Dr Fraustadt may like to hear that a paper by Mr Bennett has appeared in the Monthly Microscopical Journal Jan 1. 1876 on certain absorptive glands which he describes as embedded in the tissues of Drosera and Pinguicula.4
Should you ever make any further observations on what I have called the process of aggregation in Drosera &c, I hope that you will be so kind as to send me your paper, as I should very much wish to know what you decide5 | With much respect | my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bennett, Alfred William. 1875. The absorptive glands of carnivorous plants. [Read 1 December 1875.] Monthly Microscopical Journal 15 (1876): 1–5.
Fraustadt, Alexander. 1876. Anatomie der vegetativen Organe von Dionaea muscipula Ell. (Inaugural dissertation, Breslau University.) Breslau: R. Nischkowsky. [Reprinted in: Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 2 (1876–7): 27–64.]
Summary
Thanks FJC for paper by Alexander Fraustadt ["Vegetative Organe von Dionaea", Ell. Beitr. Biol. Pfl. 2 (1877): 27–64].
Mentions paper by A. W. Bennett ["Glands of carnivorous plants", Mon. Microsc. J. 15 (1876): 1–5].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10436
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ferdinand Julius Cohn
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Stuart Opotowsky (private collection)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10436,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10436.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24