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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Taylor, Facts and fallacies connected with the research for arsenic and antimony. CUL-DAR60.1.69. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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).

Alfred Taylor. 1860. Facts and fallacies connected with the research for arsenic and antimony; with suggestions for a method of separating these poisons from organic matter. Guy's Hospital Reports ser. 3, 6: 201-71.

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Facts & Fallacies connected with the Research for Arsenic &c by Dr Al. Taylor F.R.S.

p 12 1/4000 part of grain of arsenic admits of detection by precipitation on copper

p 16 1/2000 of gr of tartarised antimony can be ~~[illeg]~~ detected.— (Put footnote)

[Insectivorous plants, p. 171: "With respect to ordinary chemical tests, I gather from Dr. Alfred Taylor's work on 'Poisons' that about 1/4000 of a grain of arsenic, 1/4400 of a grain of prussic acid, 1/1400 of iodine, and 1/2000 of tartarised antimony, can be detected; but the power of detection depends much on the solutions under trial not being extremely weak."]

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