RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].09.09-10.07. Carbolic Acid. CUL-DAR55.32b. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 54-61 contain material for Darwin's book Insectivorous plants (1875).


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Carbolic Acid

Oct 7 9° 20' 2 red leaves in 1 dr of Carbolic 1 gr to 1 oz of water

(11° 15' 0) (2° 30' 0)

(4° some inflection on one leaf)

8th (9° 10' Both leaves closely inflected put into pure water [illeg] quantity of viscid matter

Sept 9 8° still quite closed & I believe dead)

― 10 8 ° do do evidently dead— glands most of glands pale


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