From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after 4 Dec 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 70
Summary:
Thanks for information about the Atropia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks for information about the Atropia.
Requests chemicals for Drosera experiments. Lists 12 acids tried so far.
Requests 6 2oz bottles with corks. Folic acid produces remarkable effect. Orders hydriodic acid.
Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.
Sends CD a measure with capacity of 20 oz or 34.65925 cubic inches.
Sends CD description of preparation of extract of belladonna.
Informs CD that he has forwarded some oils and opium.