From John Phillips 14 March 1874
Summary
Will be out of town, so he cannot vote for Henry Parker.
CD ought to come to see his Cetiosaurus, of which he draws a likeness.
| Author: | John Phillips |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9360 |
From Prior Purvis 12 March 1874
Summary
Sends report on an infant with congenital heart disease who died at ten months. Post-mortem showed it had the "heart of a fish": two cavities, one auricle and one ventricle.
| Author: | Prior Purvis |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9355 |
From J. T. Moggridge 7 March 1874
Summary
Sends abstract of Martin Ziegler’s paper on sensitive movements in Drosera ["Sur un fait physiologique observé sur des feuilles de Drosera", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 74 (1872): 1227–9].
JTM’s experiments with formic acid and ants have failed to reveal the secret of the ants, but have taught him a great deal about germination.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9339 |
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- … 10 hours the peas & millet appeared uninjured & grew well but not one of the cress would germinate! Cress appears to be especially susceptible. — Then I have made experiments with living harvesting ants, confining a very large number (about 100) in a corked test tube almost entirely filled with earth on the surface of which various seeds were placed— Here, though the confined air must have been saturated with any exhalations which are given off from the ants bodies, the seeds germinated well & without delay— Neither did seeds appear to be affected after having been confined for 12 …
Author
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Purvis, Prior | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Purvis, Prior | (1) |
