To Daniel Oliver 12 [October 1860]
Summary
Requests DO apply carbonate of ammonia to sensitive hair of Dionaea and measure reaction time. Wants to compare Drosera and Dionaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 12 [Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 16 (EH 88206000) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2946 |
To Daniel Oliver 12 [October 1860]
Summary
Wants to amend request [see 2946] if DO wants to try carbonate of ammonia experiment. Put third drop on midrib of leaf [of Dionaea] or inside upper side.
Sorry DO already has Origin. Would he like Journal of Travels [Journal of researches]?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 12 [Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Journal of researches (1860) REF COLLECTION K SMITH WOODWARD DAR) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2946A |
To John Murray 12 October [1860]
Summary
Lyell tells CD Origin still sells "pretty well", which pleases and surprises him. If a new edition should be called for, he has a good many corrections and a historical preface for it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.82–83) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2947 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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