RECORD: Darwin, Francis. [ny].06.01. Large stoneware vessel with glass tap. CUL-DAR209.15.60. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR209.15 contains notes and photographs for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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June 1—

Large stoneware vessel with glass tap, holds a bath-can & a half of water

Filled it with 10,000 cc of tank water & added

nitrate of calcium 40 grammes

chloride of potassium 7.5 grammes

sulphate of magnesia 4 grammes

phosphate of potassium 5 grammes

glacial phosphoric acid 5 grammes

Taking all the sa ingredients together the solution of .615 per cent

2nd potfull had 5.5 gr glacial phosphoric & not quite 10,000, ditto 3rd pot


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