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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 146
Summary:

Will prepare experiments with the fatty acids on digestion of gluten. Has found it is digested slowly, but entirely, with pepsin and hydrochloric acid.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448)
Summary:

Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.

Describes his holiday in Southampton.

Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
3 Sept 1874
Source of text:
Nevill 1910, pp. 107–8
Summary:

Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].

Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.

Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6
Summary:

Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.

Also discusses space and colour perception.

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