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DCP-LETT-2933

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2947B

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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DCP-LETT-2950

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2966A

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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DCP-LETT-2968

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 6, 58.2: 49–52
Summary:

Sends CD passages from A. S. Taylor’s book [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)], citing smallest portions of poisons that are chemically detectable. "Drosera beats the chemists hollow."

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