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Excited with albumen — no effect

May 7th 1874. 8º Am

Six sticks with Black wisp.

atoms of old Albumen moistened with saliva, & surrounding tentacles touched with saliva. (for Glycerine

May 8th 9º. all well inflected put into glycerine

May 9' 8º 50' put on drop of glycerine extract to some Hydrochloric A. 1— to 200 of water & added some of do to mass with the leaves & put on chimney piece. — added angular angular parallelograms of fresh boiled albumen to both.

May 15' not the least effect after 4 days

(3d trial utter failure)

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May 11th 8º A.m. (8 paper Heads) tested on 2 points of each leaf secretion with damp litmus paper — not acid.

(If glass acts on some leaves worth recording, showing cinders too light)

took red-hot cinder out of fire & soaked for 28h in distilled water & then put on fragments.

(July May 12. 8' cinders did not act — put on bits of glass. 8º Am)

May 13'— The glass did not act hardly at all, but there was acid on disc of the few which were a little incurved—

Yet All the bits of glass used which I tried were acid

May 13' 8º 10. dusted with blue glass, particles of, & first ascertained though without much care not acid. 8 or 9 leaves, in 10' much inflection. (Given below as caution)

I have no doubt the explanation of this apparent anomaly, that the 8 cinders though not small did not act at all when placed on disc & the 8 bits (rather large) of glass did acted very slightly & only on few leaves, is due to cold weather & the plates having been taken out very warm greenhouse — give this as caution— Weight also seemed to come into play— ↘

Yet these same leaves when dusted with glass were somewhat inflected in 10 m