RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1874. Tea / Tea-leaves boiled for 1 hour distilled water clean vessel / Proof sheet of Expression, p. 107.CUL-DAR57.123. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. 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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Tea   (1874)

May 6'    8O 3' A.m — { Tea-leaves boiled for 1 hour    distilled water    clean vessel.

2 stick with Pins    very strong

May 8th    8O 15    No effect on all 5 leaves.

   9    8O 15.    no effect on all 5 leaves.

 3 sticks Paper-Heads — diluted with distilled water but still strong.

    5O 30'    no clear inflection

May 7th    7O 45 A m — no proper inflection in any of 5 leaves — perhaps a trace in some in sub-marginals

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[Proof sheet of Expression, p. 107.]


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