To Edward Frankland 20 May [1874]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 20th
My dear Prof. Frankland
I thank you much for sending me the sewage water & the Oleic Acid, both of which are treaures to me. From what I can as yet see I doubt whether the former will act.1
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
See letter to Edward Frankland, 14 May [1874]; CD was attempting to determine the sensitivity of the leaves of Drosera.
Summary
Thanks for the sewage water and the oleic acid. The former does not seem to act.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9462A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Frankland
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- MY 20 74
- Source of text
- The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9462A,” accessed on 26 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9462A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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