From Mary Treat 13 December 1872
Summary
Drosera filiformis captures only small insects [but see 8989].
Writes of her experiments with butterflies.
CD’s theory steadily gains ground in the U. S., despite Agassiz.
Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 23–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8676 |
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- … From Mary Treat 13 December 1872 …
- … 2010 , p. 327. See letter to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 , and Correspondence vol. 19, …
- … Mary) Davis/Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat Vineland, N.J. 13 Dec 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and this volume, letter to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 . The sex of bees was generally …
To Mary Treat 5 January 1872
Summary
Praises MT’s observations and asks her to repeat experiments on the the relation of sexes of butterflies to the nutrition of the larvae.
Is glad she will publish her observations on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
Date: | 5 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | Amy Nagashima (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8146 |
To Asa Gray 8 January 1873
Summary
Has received, through AG, a letter on Dionaea [from W. M. Canby] which has greatly interested him. CD asks AG to question his correspondent on whether it catches large or small insects.
Mary Treat will observe Drosera filiformis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (102) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8728 |
To Mary Treat 1 January 1873
Summary
Asks for certain observations to be made on Drosera and Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
Date: | 1 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Amy Nagashima (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8719 |
From Mary Treat 28 July 1873
Summary
Reports in detail on her experiments with Drosera. Finds she was mistaken in thinking D. filiformis captured only small insects.
Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 30–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8989 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 June 1873
Summary
Thanks for Dionaea.
George Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1873): viii–xxix]. Admires it greatly.
CD’s recent work leads him to a different theory [from GB’s] on the separation of the sexes of plants.
Huxley has been at Down working with CD on Drosera – very helpful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 263–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8956 |
From Francis Darwin 14 August [1873]
Summary
Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9009F |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 24 June 1873
Summary
Wishes JSBS to look over an abstract of his Drosera experiments and to answer some questions on it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 June 1873 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8948 |
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- … Mary Treat, 1 January 1873 , and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 January [1873] . In a letter to Nature , 19 June 1873, pp. 141–3, Burdon Sanderson reported on some of the experiments that had previously been undertaken by Henry Charlton Bastian to advance a theory of spontaneous generation (see Bastian 1872 ). …
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