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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:
James Smith Brazier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.99
Summary:

Is grateful for his prompt reply and kind remarks about his own qualifications [i.e., JB's].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project