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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
26 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 95
Summary:

James Caird does not think Torbitt’s success justifies application to Government. Torbitt has four acres planted with seedlings. Has sent back CD’s £100. Shall CD insist that he keep it?

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 451–2
Summary:

CD again asks JDH to support Torbitt’s project to breed disease-resistant potatoes. He has also sought support of Farrer, Duke of Richmond, and James Caird.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
1 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 98
Summary:

T. H. Farrer has talked to James Caird. He believes Royal Agricultural Society will cultivate JT’s seeds. CD pledges £100 for JT’s own experiments.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 88
Summary:

Describes James Torbitt’s plan for producing disease-resistant potato varieties. [Letter is an earlier version of 11406.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 or 4 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 453–4
Summary:

His attempts to obtain a Government grant for Torbitt seem hopeless.

CD is suffering from constant swimming of the head.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 103–4
Summary:

Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 150
Summary:

Hopes to visit [Sara and William] later in the year.

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From:
John Michels
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 177
Summary:

Describes a post-mortem dissection of a chimpanzee’s brain. The several doctors who observed it were struck by its resemblance to the human brain.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 480
Summary:

Thanks for letter. Comments on SBJS’s research on Palaeolithic flint tools.

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From:
James Caird
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 2
Summary:

Concerns [James] Torbitt’s potato plants and the question of their trial by the Experimental Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society and a request to the Government for the needed expense. THF and CD to set a date for consultation with the botanist [William] Carruthers.

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From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 177
Summary:

Thanks CD for his expression of interest in SBJS’s work. His researches on the age and divisions of the Palaeolithic period will be published soon by the Geological Survey [On the manufacture of gun-flints, the methods of excavating for flint, the age of Palaeolithic man, etc. (1879)].

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From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 1a
Summary:

Returns CD’s letter [11389] of which he has kept a copy.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[4 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 89
Summary:

Agricultural Society will not do potato experiments. Torbitt telegraphs that seeds to be sown tomorrow. Memorial with a few signatures might get grant from Government. Hooker believes plan the right one.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 99
Summary:

No use in thinking about Royal Agricultural Society. William Carruthers, botanist of Society, thinks attempt hopeless. T. H. Farrer and James Caird are thinking of application to Government. Makes suggestions about experiments [on potatoes].

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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 394
Summary:

Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[after 2 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 1b
Summary:

Forwards letter from James Caird concerning funds for potato experiments. CD will correct his letter to THF [11389] and then forward it to Hooker for his opinion.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
6 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 362
Summary:

Thanks for essays by ASW ["Experiments with turnip seeds", Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 13 (1876–9): 25–39, and a short notice, "Experiments in singling turnips"] and Aegilops seed.

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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 138
Summary:

Problems of continuing with his crossing experiments; financial help from CD.

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From:
James Miller (James) Grant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 89
Summary:

As a believer in the existence of God from the evidence of nature, he is somewhat staggered by CD’s and Tyndall’s books. Asks CD to tell him whether the doctrine of descent of man destroys the evidence of the existence of a God looked at through natural phenomena.

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From:
Anton Schobloch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 34
Summary:

Asks CD to explain why there are hermaphrodites.

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