From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:
Thanks for pt 4 of Australian orchids [1874–].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks for pt 4 of Australian orchids [1874–].
Suggests that benzoic acid would be a deadly poison to bacteria and their allies.
Is puzzled about the use of borax as a disinfectant because in his experiments Drosera were not in the least injured by boracic acid.