To [W. W. Baxter?] 11 May [1873]1
Please send me little book of Litmus Paper. & Bottle of Gum with brush, such as I have often had before
C. Darwin
Down, May 11th.—
Footnotes
The correspondent is conjectured from the fact that Baxter was CD’s usual chemist, and he supplied chemicals for CD’s work on Insectivorous plants. The year is established by a note accompanying this letter in which Horace Darwin is said to have attested that the letter had to do with CD’s work on Drosera (sundew). CD did experiments on Drosera with litmus paper and bought some from ‘a druggist’ in 1873 (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Edward Frankland, 7 October [1873]). He started to use the more sensitive litmus paper provided by Edward Frankland from October 1873 (see ibid., letter from Edward Frankland, 10 October 1873).
Summary
Requests litmus paper and gum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8319
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Walmisley Baxter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8319,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8319.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
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