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To W. H. Dallinger [after 10 January 1876]
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CD has read all of WHD’s and J. J. Drysdale’s papers [on spontaneous generation, monads, and the origin of life] and finds them the best work on the subject.
The function of bladders in Utricularia is not to float the plant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Dallinger |
| Date: | [after 10 Jan 1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS CG/u/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10354 |
To W. H. Dallinger 2 July 1878
Summary
Has no doubt WHD’s experiments on mutation of lower organisms under changed conditions of life will be curious and valuable. The fact of their becoming accustomed to much higher temperatures than those to which they are adapted is very remarkable. It explains the existence of algae in hot springs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Dallinger |
| Date: | 2 July 1878 |
| Classmark: | Dallinger 1887, p. 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11587 |
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| letter | (2) |
Addressee
| Dallinger, W. H. | (2) |
