From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 5
Summary:
Sends FD £5 for the loan of his microscope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends FD £5 for the loan of his microscope.
Would welcome JSBS visit to discuss Drosera. Nitrogenous fluids can act as ferments only if they act merely by exciting molecular movement in adjoining molecules.
Glass and cotton excite movement and cause cell contents to change visibly. Huxley coming to see this phenomenon.
Studied effect of poisons 12 or 15 years ago to see whether the action was similar to that on nervous tissue.
Is tired of inaction and so is leaving for Egypt and the East.
Confirms previous observations on ants [see 8788].