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DCP-LETT-9427F

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.2: 65–70
Summary:

Purpose of experiments was to determine digestive activity of liquids containing pepsin. Gives required amounts of hydrochloric, propionic, butyric and valerianic acids. Describes experiment and gives results. Also experimented on digestive activity of butyric acid at greater temperatures than the termperature of the body.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9429

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 128
Summary:

Asks CD’s support for his application for the Chair of Geology at Oxford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9430

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 210
Summary:

Bullfinches’ instinctive capacity for removing nectaries from cowslips.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9428

From:
Cecil James Monro
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 230
Summary:

Sends cherry blossoms damaged by birds in response to CD’s letter in Nature ["Flowers of the primrose", Collected papers 2: 183–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9431

From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 43
Summary:

Further particulars on pea-fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9432

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 255
Summary:

Thanks for recent edition of CD’s Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9433

From:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 139
Summary:

Observations on early shedding of tears and shrugging of shoulders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9435

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 211
Summary:

Variation in bullfinches’ instinctive ability to remove nectaries and ovaries from cowslips.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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