From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 26 May [1874]1
49, Queen Anne Street. | W.
May 26
Dear Mr Darwin
I have just been reading over your last letter (of May 14)2 and find that there are several questions still to answer and that I have very carelessly neglected one or two matters that ought to have been immediately attended to. I have no excuse to make that is worth setting forward & therefore shall not attempt any.
I may mention provisionally that artificial gastric juice dissolves bone entirely and that gluten & fibrin are completely dissolved both in Hydrochloric acid and in the propionic & butyric acids at ordinary temperatures.3
I have noted down all the matters to be attended to & I think I may say positively that all will be completed in a couple of days
Very truly yours | J B Sanderson
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Sends CD provisional information that artificial gastric juice dissolves bone entirely and that gluten and fibrin are completely dissolved in hydrochloric, propionic, and butyric acids. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 118–19.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9470
- From
- John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 49
- Source of text
- DAR 58.1: 54–5
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9470,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9470.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
