From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
27 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 380
Summary:
Comments on experiments of touching seeds with acid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Comments on experiments of touching seeds with acid.
He has added carbolic acid to the seed germination experiments and sends more results on the effect of formic acid. Formic acid inhibits mildew on dough but not on seeds.
Mildew never grows in ants’ nests.
Sends an account, from the Mishnah, of grain stored by ants.