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To Joseph Fayrer   1 September 1875

Summary

Thanks JF for his book.

At present has no observations he wishes made in India.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:  1 Sept 1875
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 1629 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10145

To Joseph Fayrer   [after 10 January 1881]

Summary

Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:  [after 10 Jan 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 109v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13001

To Joseph Fayrer   30 March 1882

Summary

Requests snake poison for experiment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:  30 Mar 1882
Classmark:  DAR 144: 105
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13750

To Joseph Fayrer   [before 25 June 1874]

Summary

Sends observations of poison acting on glands of Drosera. Poison acts as a stimulant to protoplasm. Very remarkable that poison acts so differently on the cilia and protoplasm of Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:  [before 25 June 1874]
Classmark:  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 273–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9512F

To Joseph Fayrer   [1–3 July 1874]

Summary

Cobra poison is a stimulant to protoplasm. Poison acts very differently on cilia and protoplasm of Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:  [1–3 July 1874]
Classmark:  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 274
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9527F

To Joseph Fayrer   4 July [1874]

Summary

Suggests experiment involving cobra poison on white corpuscles. Thanks for offer of Crotalus poison.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:  4 July [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 144: 104
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9533
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