RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. I placed with a needle atoms of the dry carbonate. CUL-DAR61.90. 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: 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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( I placed with a needle atoms of say the dry carbonate on several slightly glands; which & these were instantly blackened become black, & secreted copiously; but the tentacles, except in two instances, were not inflected.
It appeared that the gland was killed so quickly that no motor influence was could be sent to the basal & bending portion of the tentacles, & after for in some of the cases, after after five or six hours, their whole length whole tentacles were seen to be [illeg] in some of these cases was seen to be blackened & destroyed destroyed. Killed.) Strong solution
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