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To Asa Gray 25 June 1874
Summary
Remarks on his work on Pinguicula. Notes its digestive power; it absorbs nutritious matter from leaves and seeds as well as insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 25 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (108) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9511 |
To Joseph Fayrer [before 25 June 1874]
Summary
Sends observations of poison acting on glands of Drosera. Poison acts as a stimulant to protoplasm. Very remarkable that poison acts so differently on the cilia and protoplasm of Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [before 25 June 1874] |
| Classmark: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 273–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9512F |
To John Ralfs [after 25 June 1874]
Summary
Wants particularly to know whether seeds or leaves of other plants are ever found adhering to the leaves of Pinguicula. Observations would perhaps best be made in a month or two.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Ralfs |
| Date: | [after 25 June 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 59.1: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9514F |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Addressee
| Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Ralfs, John | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Ralfs, John | (1) |
