Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.
Are measuring glasses accurate?
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Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.
Are measuring glasses accurate?
Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.
Thanks for loan of measure.
Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].
Orders a very small pot of "purest & best Extract of Hyosciamus for experimental purposes".
Orders some salts for plant experiments.
Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].
Orders enema.
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
Asks about possible animal substances in samples of Belladonna and Digitalis.
Thanks for information about the Atropia.
Requests litmus paper and gum.
Orders list of chemical salts. Ashamed to order from Hopkins and Williams because they charge him such an extremely low rate.
Orders salts of various metals; thinks chlorides (where soluble) would be better than nitrates.
Requests chemicals for Drosera experiments. Lists 12 acids tried so far.
Requests 6 2oz bottles with corks. Folic acid produces remarkable effect. Orders hydriodic acid.
Requests hydrated magnesia.
Orders two bottles of chlorodyne and bottles and corks of various sizes.
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".