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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[19 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 315
Summary:

Obliged for note of 16th.

Failed to enclose letter from Hofmann.

Will be glad to read A. S. Taylor’s work [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)].

Daughter Henrietta still weak.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
13 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 4
Summary:

Has not himself experimented with delicacy of tests but sends several illustrations of what other authorities have done. Reference to James Marsh’s test for arsenic and that of Ashley Paston Price for iodine.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
14 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 314
Summary:

Discusses letter from A. W. v. Hofmann concerning solution of iodine in water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
27 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 5
Summary:

Is enclosing Alfred Swaine Taylor’s book On poisons (1848). Reports on his own experiment with the starch test in dissolving iodine in different measures of water.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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