RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].06.09. Sulphate of Quinine / Proof sheet of Expression, p. 165. CUL-DAR60.1.87. 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).


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Sulphate of Quinine June 9th 8° 25

1/2 dr of stronger solution filtered in 3 watch glasses

8° 38' some inflection in No 12 (9° 5' added water 1/2 dr)

(11° 30' 3° glands all whitish no more inflection)

2° 30' 2d leaf a good deal inflected

Jun 10th 8° A m. same state glands all mud-coloured examined 8° 30' Lava flaccid, tentacles pale — reddish mud-coloured tent mostly almost colourless — some masses of fu still purplish aggregation down to bases — curved chain & aggregation of minute spheres usual character

no trace of movement of Protoplasm

[sketch] some many elongated mass & spheres — granular

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[Proof sheet of Expression, p. 165.]


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