From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 28 July [1873]1
49, Queen Anne Street. | W.
July 28
My dear Sir
I write a single line to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter.2 I will not attempt to answer it by this post for it so happens that my time has been so occupied since I received it that I could do so properly.
I may however just mention that Dr Osler has made some comparative observations on the behaviour of colourless blood corpuscles in solutions of sodium and potassium salts of the same strength. He finds that in the latter the amœboid movements continue nearly as long as in the former.3
I am, my dear Sir | very faithfully yours | J S B Sanderson
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cooper, Barry. 2005. Osler’s role in defining the third corpuscle, or ‘blood plates’. Proceedings of the Baylor University Medical Center 18: 376–8.
Osler, William. 1874. An account of certain organisms occurring in the liquor sanguinis. [Read 18 June 1874.] Proceedings of the Royal Society. 22: 391–8.
Summary
A hasty answer to CD’s letter [8987] of 25 July. Mentions Dr Osler’s observations on behaviour of colourless blood corpuscles in solutions of sodium and potassium salts of same strength.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8988
- From
- John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 49
- Source of text
- DAR 58.1: 28–9
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8988,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8988.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21