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From Mary Treat   3 April 1876

Summary

Encloses Pinguicula specimens.

Believes she has found a new species of water-lily.

Author:  Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Apr 1876
Classmark:  DAR 178: 178
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10439

From Mary Treat   15 May 1876

Summary

Sends her article on Utricularia ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7].

Proposes to write on Sarracenia ["Carnivorous plants of Florida", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 53 (1876): 546–8, 710–14].

Author:  Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 May 1876
Classmark:  DAR 178: 179
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10508

To Mary Treat   21 April [1876]

Summary

Congratulations on finding water-lily.

Thanks for Pinguicula specimens.

Asks for reference to her article on Utricularia [see 10508].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:  21 Apr [1876]
Classmark:  Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10464

To Mary Treat   1 June 1876

Summary

Thanks MT for her article ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7]. Does not understand why he failed to detect movement [in Utricularia], but it appears from her observations that the valve is sensitive.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:  1 June 1876
Classmark:  Amy Nagashima (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10523
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