To T. H. Huxley 10 November [1860]
Summary
On the prospectus of Natural History Review. Suggests it might offer information on whether subjects that correspondents may wish to investigate have been done already.
Henrietta still very seriously ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2979 |
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 |
To J. S. Henslow 10 November [1860]
Summary
The stone hatchets are a great muddle. Would like a copy of Jacques Boucher [de Crèvecoeur] de Perthes’s book [Antiquités Celtiques et antédiluviennes (1847–64)].
Is studying action of carbonate of ammonia on Drosera. Asks if this has been done.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A83–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2981 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
