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From Edward Cresy 27 April 1863
Summary
CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Sending up-to-date railway map of southern region.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4130 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, [15 April 1863] , in DAR 251: 2232. …
- … on 7 April 1863 when Cresy visited Down House for lunch (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … Darwin competed unsuccessfully for an entrance scholarship at St John’s College, Cambridge ( DNB ). See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, [15 April 1863] , …
From Edward Cresy 30 May 1865
Summary
Impressed by Fritz Müller’s argument for natural selection in air-breathing apparatus of crustaceans ["The Darwinian hypothesis supported by observations on Crustacea", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 15 (1865): 410–16].
Plans to visit CD.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4842 |
From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin and Henrietta Emma Darwin . George Howard Darwin was an undergraduate at Cambridge. He matriculated at Trinity College in October 1864 ( Alum. Cantab. ). William Carpmael was a civil engineer who worked with Cresy and whose son, Ernest, was an undergraduate at Cambridge at this time. Ernest matriculated at St John’s College in October 1863 ( …
To Edward Cresy 13 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks for maps.
George [Darwin] failed at St John’s [College, Cambridge] and will stay another year at school.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 13 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 323 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4164 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin had entered a scholarship examination at St John’s College, Cambridge ( DNB ). See letter from Edward Cresy, 27 April 1863 and n. 7. George was a pupil at Clapham Grammar School, Surrey ( DNB ). Horace Darwin accompanied his parents to Hartfield Grove, Hartfield, Sussex, and Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey, between 27 April and 13 May 1863; the ill health of Horace and CD had prompted the trip (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 April [1863] , and Emma Darwin’ …
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| letter | (4) |
Author
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
