To Francis Darwin 16 April [1873]
Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A. I think all my larvæ are dead.1 I suspect the seeds are all dead also!! | C.D.
Ap. 16. Down.
Footnotes
See letter to Francis Darwin, [before 15 April 1873] and n. 3. CD had suggested that six drops of acid should be added to water containing undeveloped spawn.
Summary
"Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A[cid]."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8862
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- AP 16 | 73
- Source of text
- DAR 271.3: 6
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8862,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8862.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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