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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
6 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962)
Summary:

Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
[after 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (24 September 1963)
Summary:

Thanks for sending "wonderful speciment of Darlingtonia".

"I will not forget your obliging offer of giving me information with respect to California about which I may be curious."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project