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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 321
Summary:

Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[12 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 318
Summary:

Thanks for information about the weight of water.

Describes experiments on Drosera.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
15 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

P. T. A. Talandier wants to translate Origin into French. Talandier gave Louis Blanc as a referee. Could Mrs Cresy, who knows Blanc, find out what he thinks of Talandier?

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
20 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 312
Summary:

Thanks EC for help in finding French translator [for Origin].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
25 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Invites EC to visit. Wants to discuss education of his sons.

Daughter [Henrietta] has been very ill for 15 weeks.

Contributor:
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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.

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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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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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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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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 316
Summary:

Thanks for pamphlet by A. S. Taylor.

"… we have had a terrible week with my poor girl [Henrietta] on the point of death".

Discusses experiments involving placing solutions of ammonia and other substances on leaves of plants.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 317
Summary:

Discusses pamphlet by A. S. Taylor

and note by A. W. v. Hofmann concerning iodine solution.

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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".

Contributor:
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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.

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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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 320
Summary:

Thanks for railway map.

Surprised about Richard Owen: "I thought his courage was as indomitable as his malignity."

Sends extract [Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)].

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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.

Contributor:
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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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
15 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 322
Summary:

Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.

Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.

Contributor:
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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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