To Joseph Lister 7 October 1878
Summary
Suggests that benzoic acid would be a deadly poison to bacteria and their allies.
Is puzzled about the use of borax as a disinfectant because in his experiments Drosera were not in the least injured by boracic acid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Lister |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | Godlee 1917, p. 387 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11719A |
To F. J. Cohn 3 January 1878
Summary
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. Cohn, 31 December 1877 ), and he reproduced figures from some of Koch’s photographs in his ‘Lectures on the infective processes of disease’ ( Burdon Sanderson …
- … J. Cohn, 31 December 1877 . Cohn had sent CD the third and last issue of the second volume of Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen (Contributions to the biology of plants), a journal that he edited. It contained an article by Robert Koch , ‘Verfahren zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren und Photographiren der Bacterien’ (Method for examining, preserving and photographing bacteria; Koch 1877 ). It is not known when John Scott Burdon Sanderson …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Lister, Joseph | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Lister, Joseph | (1) |
