From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 113
Summary:
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest work [Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest work [Insectivorous plants].
Sends a copy of his book [The royal tiger of Bengal (1875)].
Is trying to get some cobra poison for CD.
Sends CD some cobra poison for his experiments.
Action of cobra poison.
Reports on results of experiments on effect of cobra poison on animal cilia and muscle.
Will do experiments CD suggests.
Is sending his book on the poisonous snakes of India [The Thanatophidia of India (1872)].
Is glad CD approves of his book;
has not yet done any more experiments on snake poison.
Encloses results of experiments on influence of snake poison on ciliary action and vegetable protoplasm.