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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."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 7, 9
Summary:

Explains discrepancies in weights and measures caused by changes since 1836 in apothecaries’ measures.

EC has found that a discrepancy in A. W. von Hofmann’s experiments with iodine solutions resulted from an error in Hofmann’s use of decimals.

Reports S. P. Woodward’s opinion of the Origin: "a very sad book, it unsettles all one’s religious principles and the worst of it is so much of it is true".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 239
Summary:

Comments on presentation copy of Orchids: bee Ophrys self-fertilisation; origin of nectar; odour of orchids. Book gives strong cases for special creationists.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 240
Summary:

Walter White [Asst.-Sec. and Librarian, Royal Society] has introduced EC to Richard Kippist of the Linnean Society, who has made little progress toward accepting Origin.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 161: 241
Summary:

CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Sending up-to-date railway map of southern region.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 242
Summary:

Requests letter of introduction to Asa Gray.

Went to Linnean Society to hear CD’s Lythrum paper read [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 243
Summary:

Impressed by Fritz Müller’s argument for natural selection in air-breathing apparatus of crustaceans ["The Darwinian hypothesis supported by observations on Crustacea", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 15 (1865): 410–16].

Plans to visit CD.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 244
Summary:

Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.

Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 245
Summary:

Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].

Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 246
Summary:

How did CD handle his sons’ expenses at Cambridge?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 248
Summary:

Returns Hooker’s paper [unidentified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 249
Summary:

Sends references to books by Charles Lebrun.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 250
Summary:

Congratulations on George’s being Second Wrangler at Cambridge.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 251
Summary:

Thanks for loan of Variation. "The Saturday Sadducees" do not believe there are a hundred people who understand the argument. EC fancies he does.

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