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DCP-LETT-9527F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
[1–3 July 1874]
Source of text:
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 274
Summary:

Cobra poison is a stimulant to protoplasm. Poison acts very differently on cilia and protoplasm of Drosera.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
4 July [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 104
Summary:

Suggests experiment involving cobra poison on white corpuscles. Thanks for offer of Crotalus poison.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9534

From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 110
Summary:

Will do experiments CD suggests.

Is sending his book on the poisonous snakes of India [The Thanatophidia of India (1872)].

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DCP-LETT-9559

From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 111
Summary:

Is glad CD approves of his book;

has not yet done any more experiments on snake poison.

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