To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 29 March 1873
Summary
Reports that he has not received JSBS’s book on histology and physiology [Sanderson ed., Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873)], which Edward Emmanuel Klein told CD’s son was to be sent. He asks for information so that he may thank Dr Klein. [Klein and Michael Foster were co-authors with JSBS.]
He has returned the Gazette to Dr T. L. Brunton. [See 8825.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 406 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8829A |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 24 June 1873
Summary
Wishes JSBS to look over an abstract of his Drosera experiments and to answer some questions on it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 June 1873 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8948 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 25 June 1873
Summary
Informs CD of the effects of certain salts and other chemicals on animals.
Comments on CD’s results with Drosera. Suggests some experiments.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 116–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8949 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 26 June [1873]
Summary
Would welcome JSBS visit to discuss Drosera. Nitrogenous fluids can act as ferments only if they act merely by exciting molecular movement in adjoining molecules.
Glass and cotton excite movement and cause cell contents to change visibly. Huxley coming to see this phenomenon.
Studied effect of poisons 12 or 15 years ago to see whether the action was similar to that on nervous tissue.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 June [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-08) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8952 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 25 July 1873
Summary
Describes his recent work on Drosera digestion of organic materials, e.g., albumen and gelatin. Edward Frankland has given CD a rough test for pepsin. Some plant extracts cause as much inflection as meat. Has found some reversible inflection with heat and perhaps some heat rigor. Has measured the extreme sensitivity of Drosera with very dilute solution of ammonium phosphate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 July 1873 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8987 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 28 July [1873]
Summary
A hasty answer to CD’s letter [8987] of 25 July. Mentions Dr Osler’s observations on behaviour of colourless blood corpuscles in solutions of sodium and potassium salts of same strength.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 July [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8988 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 August [1873]
Summary
Answers CD’s questions of 25 July [8987] about temperatures at which cold-blooded animals are killed.
Doubts heat rigor was induced in Drosera. Gives his view of the relation of excitability to increase in temperature.
Suggests experiment to show that electrical changes in plant are the same as in animal muscle and nerve [see Insectivorous plants, p. 318].
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 34–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9008 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 15 August 1873
Summary
Thinks it would be worth while testing for electrical changes in the leaves of insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9013 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 27 August 1873
Summary
CD can provide leaves of Dionaea if JSBS wishes to investigate electric currents in them.
His experiments show that the digestive action of Drosera seems like that of true digestion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 27 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.6103 ff.101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9029 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 9 September [1873]
Summary
Pleased JSBS has decided to work on Drosera; sends plants. Does not know whether thermo-electric pile could detect temperature change when leaves close.
CD’s experiment with very weak hydrochloric acid repeated with success: the plants digest albumen more quickly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9047 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JSBS for telegraphing his results, which seem very remarkable; feels he should now try Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9055 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 September [1873]
Summary
Very pleased at JSBS’s discovery ["On the electrical phenomena which accompany the contractions of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Rep. BAAS 43 (1873): 133].
Asks for pure animal substances [proteins] for Drosera experiments. His other sources have been T. L. Brunton, Edward Frankland, W. A. Miller (now dead), and Hoffmann of Berlin [A. W. von Hofmann?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9056 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 1 October [1873]
Summary
Hears from Frank [Darwin] that Drosera behaves perversely. Suggests that motor influence may move longitudinally away from the excited glands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9081 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 15 November [1873]
Summary
Frankland is sending JSBS organic acids for him to try artificial digestion. CD will send globulin and haemoglobin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9143 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 19 November [1873]
Summary
Sends the very little globulin and haemoglobin he has to be tested with artificial gastric juice. He could get more from Samuel William Moore. Perhaps T. L. Brunton knows about the digestion of chlorophyll by animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 19 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9155 |
From J. S. B. Sanderson [1874]
Summary
Note on the chemical composition of teeth.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9214 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 March 1874
Summary
Sends his MS on Dionaea and hopes it may be useful for JSBS’s lecture ["On the mechanism of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 7 (1874): 332–5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9368 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 23 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for MS which he intends to read while on a week’s holiday.
Sends thanks for Francis Darwin’s offer of help and says that Francis’s experiments on digestion are complete.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9370A |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 30 March [1874]
Summary
Sends results of experiments on digestion. Encloses two sets of notes: "Experiments on the digestibility of certain preparations sent by Mr Darwin" and "Note for Mr Darwin" [marked by CD for insertion in ch. 6 of Insectivorous plants].
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-28); DAR 58.2: 59–64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9378A |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 31 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for the careful experiments, particularly on organic acids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 31 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9381 |
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