To Mary Treat 21 April [1876]
Summary
Congratulations on finding water-lily.
Thanks for Pinguicula specimens.
Asks for reference to her article on Utricularia [see 10508].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10464 |
To Mary Treat 1 June 1876
Summary
Thanks MT for her article ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7]. Does not understand why he failed to detect movement [in Utricularia], but it appears from her observations that the valve is sensitive.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Date: | 1 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | Amy Nagashima (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10523 |
To Mary Treat 5 January 1872
Summary
Praises MT’s observations and asks her to repeat experiments on the the relation of sexes of butterflies to the nutrition of the larvae.
Is glad she will publish her observations on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | Amy Nagashima (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8146 |
To Mary Treat 1 January 1873
Summary
Asks for certain observations to be made on Drosera and Dionaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | Amy Nagashima (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8719 |
To Mary Treat 12 August 1873
Summary
Thanks MT for information on Drosera filiformis [see 8989].
Warns her against publishing statement about Drosera bending towards flies or meat that they have not touched.
Will send his book [Insectivorous plants] when published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9005B |
To Mary Treat 22 June 1874
Summary
Will soon publish on insectivorous plants; asks for a particular observation on Dionaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Date: | 22 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | Amy Nagashima (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9505 |
| Davis, Mary | (6) |
| Treat, Mary | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Davis, Mary | (6) |
| Treat, Mary |
