From T. L. Brunton 17 October 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for a copy of Earthworms.
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 345 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13408 |
To T. L. Brunton 25 May [1874]
Summary
CD responds to information about residue of milk digested by Drosera. Is obliged for information on strength of acids and albumen and now has little doubt acid had impaired the leaves. Awaits word on pepsin and papaw juice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9468 |
From T. L. Brunton 23 May 1874
Summary
Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.
Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 120–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10512 |
From T. L. Brunton 4 September 1874
Summary
Observations of effect of pepsin and hydrochloric acid on urea indicate that it is not digested [by Drosera].
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 86–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9625 |
To T. L. Brunton 19 November 1881
Summary
Wishes to contribute to subscription to pay legal expenses of David Ferrier [in vivisection prosecution].
Comments on physiological papers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13490 |
To Joseph Fayrer 4 July [1874]
Summary
Suggests experiment involving cobra poison on white corpuscles. Thanks for offer of Crotalus poison.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 4 July [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9533 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter of 11 May 1874 , Thomas Lauder Brunton had evidently mentioned the digestive properties of the juice of the fruit of the papaw ( Carica papaya ). Brunton described the digestive action of the ferment papain (derived from pawpaw fruit) in Brunton 1885 , pp. 777–8. Brunton’s earlier comments on the digestion of pepsin may have been made in his response to the letter to T. L. …
From T. L. Brunton 21 November 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for his offer of assistance to David Ferrier.
Discusses CD’s earthworm book.
Tonsils in man as rudimentary organs.
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 346 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13496 |
From T. L. Brunton 10 January 1881
Summary
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 343 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12999 |
| letter | (8) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (2) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (7) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
