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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Requests EF’s vote and support in favour of Henry Parker for membership in the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
12 Apr 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Finding that the leaves of Drosera digest all the phosphate of lime out of bones and then remain clasped over the bones for a long time, CD wants to determine whether it is the phosphate of lime or the animal matter in the bones that keeps them clasped. He asks EF to send 2 or 3 grams of pure phosphate of lime for his testing. [See 9411.] Will experiment in the summer using EF’s suggestion that leaves might serve to test weak sewage. Results of Sanderson’s experiments with acids of great use.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
17 Apr 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Thanks for the pure phosphate of lime.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
22 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Requests permission to call briefly to discuss Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
28 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Thanks for letter relating to domesticated bullfinches’ instinctively cutting off cowslips [see 9430]. Suggests observing whether the birds swallow any part of flower or particular parts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
14 May [1874]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Requests sewage water (and oleic acid) for experiments to determine sensitivity of leaves [of Drosera].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
20 May [1874]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Thanks for the sewage water and the oleic acid. The former does not seem to act.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
22 July 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Asks for the specific gravity of common phosphate of ammonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
31 Aug 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Utricularia catch freshwater Crustaceans, which cannot be digested and rot in the bladders. CD is interested to identify any substance produced in the putrefaction before it is resolved into gases and salts of ammonia. He has reason to believe that the plant absorbs such products.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project