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From Edward Cresy to Emma Darwin   20 November 1865

Summary

Asks Emma to write to Erasmus [E. A. Darwin] in support of Miss Elizabeth Garrett as Professor of Physiology at Bedford College for girls.

Author:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  20 Nov 1865
Classmark:  DAR 161: 247
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4940

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  • … Cresy, Edward, Jr Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma
  • … From Edward Cresy to Emma Darwin   20 November 1865 …
  • … 247 Edward Cresy, Jr Metropolitan Board of Works 20 Nov 1865 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … Asks Emma to write to Erasmus [E. A. Darwin] in support of Miss Elizabeth Garrett as …
  • Darwin , had served as chairman of the council of the Ladies’ College, Bedford Square (Bedford College) since it was founded in 1849. Emma’ …

From Edward Cresy   18 October 1865

Summary

How did CD handle his sons’ expenses at Cambridge?

Author:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Oct 1865
Classmark:  DAR 161: 246
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4918

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  • … to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n.  12, and Appendix IV. Cresy refers to Emma Darwin and …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin . …

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

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  • … no record of a visit by Cresy in 1865 in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); his last recorded …
  • … directory 1865). Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin . Cresy refers to an abstract (Anon.   …

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

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  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 9 [March] 1864  and n.  23. Cresy refers to Emma Darwin and …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin . George Howard Darwin was an undergraduate at Cambridge. He …

From Edward Cresy   10 September 1865

Summary

Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].

Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.

Author:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Sept 1865
Classmark:  DAR 161: 245
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4892

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  • … Board of Works ( Post Office London directory 1865). Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
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