RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1861-1862]. Draft of Orchids, folio 192. Sanders-3.2017Lot96. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN4
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. The (325 x 200 mm) manuscript sold again, at Bonham's, on 21 November 2023, Lot 47 for $64,000. The scans are from Bonham's. Reproduced with the kind permission of a private collection, USA (11.2023). The same private collection holds:
[c. 1858]. Notes on Huber, Recherches sur les Moeurs des Fourmis Indigènes (1810). Text & image PC-USA-OriginAnts
1858. Draft leaf of Origin. Text & image PC-USA-OriginMS270
1858-59. Draft leaf of Origin. Text & image PC-USA-OriginMS324
1859.11.11. Letter to Adam Sedgwick on sending Origin. Text & image PC-USA-SedgwickOrigin
[1859].12.24. Letter to T. H. Huxley on a manuscript on the evolution of pigeons. Text & image PC-USA-HuxleyPigeons
[1861-62]. Draft of Orchids, folio 192. Text & image Sanders-3.2017Lot96.
1870. Draft leaf of Descent. Text & image PC-USA-DescentMS10
1871. Receipt for Murray's payment for Descent. Text & image PC-USA-DescentReceipt
1871. Draft leaf of Expression. Text & image CUL-DAR185.143
1871. Draft leaf of Expression. Text & image CUL-DAR185.144
1868.02.09. Letter to Asa Gray on Variation. Text & image PC-USA-GrayVariation
The text of the draft corresponds to Orchids, pp. 278-9.
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systems from superfluous or injurious substances should be utilised for purposes of the highest utility importance. To give an example in strong strong contrast with flowers & honey, the larvæ of certain beetles (Cassidæ, &c.) instinctively use their own excrement to make an nest & admirable little habitations case for their eggs umbrella-like protection for their tender bodies.)
In Cypripedium the large slipper-like labellum seems well adapted to hold & collect hold nectar; but I have have found no such collection in the four previously named species examined by me; & nor does C. calceolus has none ever secrete any according to Kurr.*(a). Yet I have observed in the The labellum, however, in these four species, is studded with hairs; & I have almost always noticed on their tips of their hairs little drops of slightly viscid fluid, which if sweet could certainly suffice to attract insects. & This viscid fluid when dryed forms a brittle crust, but I could not perceive that it was crystallised. any traces of crystallization.)
(It may be remembered that in the first chapter I gave abundant evidence was given proving that nectar is never found in several species of Orchis within the spur-like nectary, but that the between the two coats membranes there is an abundant supply of fluid. In all the
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* Bedeutung der Nektarien 1833. s. 29.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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