To W. C. Williamson 21 September [1878]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Sept. 21st
My dear Professor Williamson
The specimens arrived dried up & shrivelled, but I have put them to soak, & I daresay that I shall be able to see their structure tomorrow, sufficiently to gratify my idle curiosity, for I am at work on other subjects.2
Many thanks for your kind offer of the plants: if you have any few seeds left & could spare them, I shd. like to see how the embryo breaks through the ground. In this case please inform me how you sow them, as I have hitherto failed in raising seedling Droseras.3
Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
If I do not hear I shall understand you have no seed.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Calendar: A calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882. With supplement. 2d edition. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994.
Movement in plants: The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.
Summary
Thanks him for plant specimens.
Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11700
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Crawford Williamson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11700,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11700.xml
