RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1929.11.09. Typed copy of Darwin's letter to Mary Treat (1 June 1876). CUL-DAR262.5.7. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR262.5 contains Darwin's letters to Mary Treat and letters from Lawrence Jones to Buckston Browne. (Typed copies) 1872-1929.

This typed copy of the letter was sent by Lawrence J Jones to Buckston Browne in 1929. See CUL-DAR262.5.2.

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June 1. 76

Down, Beckenham, Kent.

Railway Station Orpington. S.E.R.

My dear Madam

I have received your kind letter and the article which I have read with the greatest interest. It certainly appears from your exact observations that the valve was sensitive, and I hope it may be so from homologising with Pinguicula; but I cannot understand why I could never with all my pains excite any movement. It is pretty clear I am quite wrong about the head acting like a wedge.— The indraught of the living larvae is astonishing.— I do not at all understand the German account of the development of the utricles and I suspect that the German did not look to young enough utricles.

I am not well and am staying away from my home for rest, so pray excuse brevity.

Wishing you success of every kind in your admirable work.

I remain

Dear Madam

Yours very faithfully

Charles Darwin

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