From Joseph Fayrer 6 January 1875
Summary
Encloses results of experiments on influence of snake poison on ciliary action and vegetable protoplasm.
| Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 71, 73–82, DAR 164: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9806 |
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- … 03 gramme to 4·6 cubic centimetres of water was prepared. — PM 1·25 The gastrocnemius of a frog was separated and immersed in this solution in a watch glass— it immediately contracted considerably 1·30 The muscle contracts with current at 11 1·45 The muscle has lost its irritability does not respond to the strongest current— Expert 2 d . At the same time, 1·25 the gastrocnemius from the other leg of the same frog immersed in water. Did not immediately contract like that placed in the poisoned solution 1·30 Contracts strongly to current at 15. — …
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| Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
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