From John Price [27 July 1874]1
My dear Darwin
You will, I think, have recd at least one consignment of Utricularia minor from Delamere; but I have some, in very good order, (not in flower though) awaiting your orders.2 U. vulgaris once astonished me by giving out from one (query 2?) of its utricles an incredible amount of gas, in a string of minute bubbles, for hours together. I soon found the Bladders were not floats; & their structure bespeaks some higher function.
Thanks for your letter & 1000 for your Book of which I have read some already!!!3 I never thot. Red grouse were made for our Islands.4 My friend Anderson, finding Scutellaria minor says it bears the same relation to the galericulata that P. lusitanica does to P. vulgaris!5 A good hit, for a non-savant, n’est-ce pas? I am very glad you take rest even when you much want it.6 But, dear aud Cholly, try prevention à propos, I saw Eucalyptus globulus at Oulton, alongside of Castor Oil;7 & “I laafed, I did”.
Yours very truly | John Price
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin 6th ed.: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Has some Utricularia minor for CD. Has found the bladders on U. vulgaris are not floats.
Thanks CD for book [Descent, 2d ed.].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9522
- From
- John Price
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 58.1: 143
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9522,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9522.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22