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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:
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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 232
Summary:

Forwards carbonate of ammonia and gelatine free of chlorine.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Date:
3 May 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.491)
Summary:

Thanks AWvH for his work on Justus Liebig [The life-work of Liebig (1876)].

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