RECORD: Darwin, C. R. September. 4 sticks with white paper Heads 2 gr of isinglass to 1 oz of water. CUL-DAR60.1.106. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. 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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Sept 16 11.20 4 sticks with white paper Heads 2 gr of isinglass to 1 oz of water (at 4.10, two leaves much inflected & a third somewhat)
Sept 17th 8.50 (22 h) 2 leaves [illeg], 2 [illeg] inflected; [illeg] acid)
18th 10.5 some consider inflection in one leaf hardly any in the 3 others added [2 words illeg]
18th 10.10 — [illeg], a trace of inflection in 2 or the 4 leaves, added meat) 18th 2.30 all well closed over meat, showing how much more powerful.) Sept 19th 8 Lamina & all [2 words illeg] inflected)
X (add 4 & this [2 words illeg] total number of [words illeg]) add pure gelatine far less efficient
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