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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Silliman
Date:
29 March 1851
Source of text:
Boston Public Library MS Ch.I.6.32
Summary:
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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The specimen is not a fish but the larva of some batrachian or frog-like animal. Has sent it to British Museum, which says it resembles the axolotl of Mexico.
Is very interested in JJW’s report on a purple laburnum grafted onto yellow stock which then produces yellow flowers. CD requests racemes to examine.
Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].