RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1874.05.27-31. Phosphate of Amm / Draft of Insectivorous plants / Proof sheet of Expression. CUL-DAR57.41-49. 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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May 27 1874 Phosphate of Amm.

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(We thus see that the nine salts of ammonia which have been tried are all potent, though in different degrees, in causing the tentacle & sometimes the laminæ of the leaf leaves to become inflected. Of these salts those which have been were observed all caused the purple fluid within the cells of the tentacle to undergo segregation, though at very different rates. In the various nitrogenous organic & nitrogenous fluids formerly specified all not in the same manner cause evidence inflection desegregation whilst other organic & non-nitrogenous fluids to produce no such effect, we may reasonably suspect that it is the nitrogen in the salts of ammonia which acts, is efficient. On the other hand, nevertheless, as we shall immediately see, solution of other salts which do not contain any nitrogen, likewise cause inflection, whist equally strong solution of other salts produce no such effect.

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May 28/74/ Phos of Ammonia

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May 28th 74. Franklands distilled water 30 minims

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May 30th 1874 Phosphate of ammonia

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May 31 74

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[Proof sheet of Expression, published, p. 269.]

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May 29th 1874 Phosphate of ammon

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May 29th 1874 Water, (Frankland) 30 minims

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Phosh May 30 1874 Phosphate of Ammonia

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