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From:
Alfred Swaine Taylor
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
10 Dec 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 14–15
Summary:

CD may be interested in a reference to a method of detecting 1/195000 of a grain of sodium chloride.

Also, on Drosera, suggests it would be interesting to try substances such as gun-cotton, in which nitrogen is in very different states from a salt of ammonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
12 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 319
Summary:

Asks him to thank A. S. Taylor for note.

Describes experiments on Drosera.

Discusses reviews of the Origin. By far the best is by Asa Gray.

Discusses plans for new edition of Origin.

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Darwin Correspondence Project