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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
13 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 323
Summary:
Thanks for maps.
George [Darwin] failed at St John’s [College, Cambridge] and will stay another year at school.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
7 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 324
Summary:
May his son George call for advice on his career?
CD has been ill for past four months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 325
Summary:
Discusses income provided for sons at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
29 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 326
Summary:
Thanks for note about George Darwin’s gaining Second Wrangler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
