To Joseph Fayrer 30 March 1882
Down. | Beckenham. Kent.
March 30th 1882.
My dear Sir.
You will perhaps remember that you gave me some years ago a little cobra-poison for experimenting on Drosera—1 Can you redouble your kindness by giving me ever so little of this or any other snake poison? Half a grain & even a quarter of a grain would probably suffice for an experiment which I am anxious to try.—2
If you have none—I suppose that it would not be possible to purchase any in any shop?
Pray excuse me for troubling you & I remain | My dear Sir. | Yours very faithfully— | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll’: The action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies. By Charles Darwin. [Read 6 March 1882.] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 262–84.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Requests snake poison for experiment.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13750
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 144: 105
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13750,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13750.xml
