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DCP-LETT-9524

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[early July 1871]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.

Are measuring glasses accurate?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7900

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26)
Summary:

Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
14 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Breckenridge Long Box 224 – Autograph Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for loan of measure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8165

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Jan [1872-4]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
16 July [1872?]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Summary:

Orders a very small pot of "purest & best Extract of Hyosciamus for experimental purposes".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8510

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
4 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Orders some salts for plant experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.410)
Summary:

Orders enema.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13774

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8592

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
2 [Dec 1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks about possible animal substances in samples of Belladonna and Digitalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8659F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after 4 Dec 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 70
Summary:

Thanks for information about the Atropia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 May [1873]
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1)
Summary:

Requests litmus paper and gum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
4 Sept 1873
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (August 2015)
Summary:

Orders list of chemical salts. Ashamed to order from Hopkins and Williams because they charge him such an extremely low rate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
5 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.431)
Summary:

Orders salts of various metals; thinks chlorides (where soluble) would be better than nitrates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9046

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 6 (EH 88206058)
Summary:

Requests chemicals for Drosera experiments. Lists 12 acids tried so far.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9061F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
21 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 136
Summary:

Requests 6 2oz bottles with corks. Folic acid produces remarkable effect. Orders hydriodic acid.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13772G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 Dec [1873-5]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/2)
Summary:

Requests hydrated magnesia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
27 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders two bottles of chlorodyne and bottles and corks of various sizes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
6 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962)
Summary:

Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".

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