To D. F. Nevill 7 September 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Sep 7. 1874
Dear Lady Dorothy Nevill
The Drosera arrived quite safely on Saturday night.1 I fear it did not like its journey, as the glands are rather dry; but I hope in a few days to see them secreting, & I will then make my observations. I have put the plant in a cool hothouse, which I trust is right. I will look in the course of the day & try to discover whether the pot has stood in a saucer of water.
As you were so kind as to offer to aid me, I will mention a plant which it is possible, though very unlikely, you may possess, namely an Epiphytic Utricularia. This plant, when making fresh shoots or leaves, produces minute bladders, but at no other time; & I am most anxious to examine a few of these bladders.2
The Drosera is an extraordinary looking plants & I am grateful to you for the opportunity of observing it.
Your Ladyship’s | truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9627
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.449)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9627,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9627.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
