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To W. H. Dallinger [after 10 January 1876]
Summary
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 |
From W. H. Dallinger 10 January 1876
Summary
Has confirmed CD’s observations on Drosera.
Asks whether CD agrees that it is "no longer a fact" that the bladders of Utricularia vulgaris enable the plant to become lighter for fecundation and heavier when that act is accomplished. Plans to undertake further observations, under very high-powered microscopes, of mechanism of digestion.
| Author: | William Henry Dallinger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10352 |
Author
| Dallinger, W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Dallinger, W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
