RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. n.d. Abstract of Miller, Elements of Chemistry / Draft of Expression, Chapter XII. CUL-DAR60.2.36. 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).

Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds in part to Expression, p. 306.


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Sodium is intermediate in properties between lithium & potassium; and its atomic weight is the mean between those of Potassium & lithium

"In like manner the atomic weight of Rubidium is intermediate between those of Potassium and Cæsium" and

Miller pp 337 & 448

[Penciled lines illeg or erased]

[Insectivorous plants, pp. 187-8: "It seems opposed to the rule of the preponderant influence of the base that the nitrate of lithium causes moderately rapid inflection, whereas the acetate causes none; but this metal is closely allied to sodium and potassium,* which act so differently; therefore we might expect that its action would be intermediate.

* Miller's 'Elements of Chemistry,' 3rd edit. pp. 337, 448."]

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Chap XII

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of horror and agony. The photograph

(Pl. VII. fig. 2) likewise exhibits horror


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