My dear Price

I received yesterday from home a redirected little box, & from a word written inside I think that you must have sent it. It contained a sp. of Utricularia & has proved a treasure to me.²

By good chance I found a simple microscope here with a few tools, so that I could look at some details, enough to show me that with some important difference, there is essential similarity.³ I opened by chance 5 of the largest bladders & all contained dead Entomostraca,⁴—24, 20, 15, 10 & 7 respectively.— What slaughter! Very many thanks. I have put spec. in spirits for future more careful observations.

[Now] Thursday we go for 3 weeks to my son’s house Bassett, Southampton.⁵

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin