RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Dried Human Saliva behaves in exactly same way in flame of Spirit Lamp. CUL-DAR205.11.70. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.11 contains notes on Instinct, change in habit.


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Dried Human Saliva behaves in exactly same way in flame of spirit Lamp. — Has glistening fracture is brittle — of course highly vesicular & small portion presented nearly same appearance as the Swift's nest.— But in water softens more readily.—

 


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