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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
26 June [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-08)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Duncan Hague
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1873
Source of text:
Nature , 24 July 1873, p. 244
Summary:

Confirms previous observations on ants [see 8788].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 68
Summary:

Is tired of inaction and so is leaving for Egypt and the East.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project