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To W. W. Baxter   [after 4 December 1872]

Summary

Thanks for information about the Atropia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter
Date:  [after 4 Dec 1872]
Classmark:  DAR 249: 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8659F

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To W. W. Baxter?   10 November [1872–4]

Summary

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

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter
Date:  10 Nov [1872-4]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13774

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  • … 1872–4] . See letter to W.  W.  Baxter? , 8 November [1872–4] . On CD’s health, see J.   …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W.  W.  Baxter? , 8 November [ …

To W. W. Baxter   2 [December 1872]

Summary

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

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter
Date:  2 [Dec 1872]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8592

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  • … relationship between this letter and the letter from W.  W.  Baxter, 4 December 1872 . CD …

From W. W. Baxter   4 December 1872

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Summary

Sends CD description of preparation of extract of belladonna.

Author:  William Walmisley Baxter
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Dec 1872
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 21–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8659

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  • … See letter to W.  W.  Baxter, 2 [December 1872] . Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade) …
  • W.  Baxter C.  Darwin Esq re . P.S.  I do not find albumen in our Ext. Belladonna Top of letter : ‘ …

To W. W. Baxter   16 July [1872?]

Summary

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

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter
Date:  16 July [1872?]
Classmark:  Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7280

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  • … see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to W. W. Baxter, 22 January 1861) . The experiments …

To J. D. Hooker   4 October [1872]

Summary

Is sending Drosera back

and "the curious Kerguelen book".

"Drosera has almost been the death of me."

Hopes the accursed man [Ayrton] does not give JDH any more trouble.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 Oct [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 229–30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8542

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  • … Journal’ (Appendix II) and letter from W.  W.  Baxter, [after 23 August 1872? ] , n.  1). …

To W. W. Baxter   17 September [1872?]

Summary

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

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter
Date:  17 Sept [1872?]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8523

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  • letter was written after the resumption of CD’s work on Drosera on 23 August 1872 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)), and from the relationship between this letter and the letter to W.  W.  Baxter, …
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