To J. T. Smith 4 January 1860
Summary
Remembers reading Smith’s memoir in Geological Transactions on the anomalous nature of Ventriuculidae. Asks for a copy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joshua Toulmin Smith |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Sieveking MSS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2637F |
From Joshua Toulmin Smith 6 January 1860
Summary
Sends a copy of his Ventriculidae [of the Chalk (1848)]. This group, he feels, is well represented by CD’s plate of graduating species [Origin, ch. 4].
| Author: | Joshua Toulmin Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 32.ii (EH 88206084) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2642 |
From Alfred Swaine Taylor to Edward Cresy 10 December 1860
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.
| Author: | Alfred Swaine Taylor |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3015 |
To [the Royal College of Surgeons of England] 28 December [1860]
Summary
Asks whether, during the past year, Richard Owen’s edition of John Hunter’s new work has been published [Memoranda on vegetation (Hunter 1860), or Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology (Hunter 1861)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal College of Surgeons of England |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Donald R. Markey (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3035F |
From Edward Cresy 10 November 1860
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".
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 7, 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2980 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (2) |
| Smith, J. T. | (2) |
| Royal College of Surgeons of England | (1) |
| Taylor, A. S. | (1) |
