The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. gelatine / albumen / milk / meat / saliva / urine / mucus. CUL-DAR60.2.40. 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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Gelatine X X X (X?) X X X X

Albumen X X X X X X

X Milk X (X?) X X X X X X X X

Infusion of meat X

Saliva X X X X X X X X

X Urine X X X X X X X X X X X

Mucus X lungs [illeg] XX

(These crosses mean no' of times tried)

"furnished with small & little-branched roots"

The releasing of cinders & vegetable matter shows recognition of

~~Try weak Carb on young leaves~~

Nitrogen — The stimulus for movement is here mechanical not so with fluids—

[40v]

J. B. Lawes Esqr. Dr J. H. Gilbert F.C.S

Rothamsted

St. Albans

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