From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
17 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 116
Summary:
Asks for additional information about JT’s potato experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/2)
Summary:
A letter of resignation from the Down Schools Committee. He will send a cheque for balance in hand when he is informed as to whom it is to be sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
20 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 117
Summary:
Thanks for letter and documents [about potato experiments]. Will send testimonial letter to James Caird to be circulated among possible financial supporters of JT’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 200
Summary:
Wishes to see some small appointment found for A. R. Wallace, whose present labours are trying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Summary:
Asks AG to confirm whether Ipomoea leptophylla "makes a great tuber as big as a mangel-wurzel".
Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B57
Summary:
German edition of Erasmus Darwin delayed because Murray has not sent phototypes and galvanographs.
Two of CD’s articles from Nature to appear in April Kosmos ["Sexual colours in butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2, Kosmos 7 (1880): 72–4;
"Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20, Kosmos 7 (1880): 77–8].
Moritz Wagner will begin a series criticising natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36204)
Summary:
Regrets delay of photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sylvester Morse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 247; Nature , 15 April 1880, pp. 561–2
Summary:
Offended by F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of his Omori mound paper. Asks CD to have it reviewed elsewhere and encloses a letter to Nature he wants CD to forward. [See 12571.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130)
Summary:
Thanks for Megarrhiza seeds and information. Has been greatly interested by Megarrhiza germination.
Samuel Butler has attacked CD over Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Caird
Date:
24 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 52: E7a, E9–14, E16v
Summary:
Encloses a statement regarding the progress of Torbitt’s potato experiments, and discusses the handling of the fund CD holds for Torbitt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 4
Summary:
Is impressed by the scale of Torbitt’s experiments. Discusses financial assistance. If Torbitt’s work succeeds, they will be amply repaid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Christopher Columbus Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 12
Summary:
Informs CD that the letter CCG received from him has been framed to be hung in the Kentucky State House.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
28 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 118
Summary:
"[James] Caird seems satisfied with what I have said of your method and the results hitherto attained." Can now promise to send £90 in the autumn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
29 Mar 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-12)
Summary:
Grieves with CWF at the approaching death of his father, W. D. Fox. Remembers how they breakfasted together every day at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
30 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 119
Summary:
Encloses letter about JT’s potato experiments sent to T. H. Farrer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Warren de la Rue
To:
David Gill
Date:
22 March 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/99, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
an unknown recipient
Date:
13 March 1880
Source of text:
MM/25/9, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 March 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 59, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Gwyn Jeffreys
Date:
8 March 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/17 f.81, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
March 1880
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Author
Addressee
- Bailey, Frederick3
- Brunton, T. L.1
- Caird, James1
- Chester, J. L.1
- Crosskey, H. W.1
- Darwin, C. R.25
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Farrer, T. H.3
- Fox, C. W.1
- Gill, David1
- Gray, Asa3
- Hector, James1
- Hodge, W. B.1
- Hooker, Joseph2
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Jeffreys, John Gwyn1
- Krause, Ernst1
- Krauss, Ferdinand von1
- Litchfield, H. E.4
- McLachlan, Robert2
- Meldola, Raphael1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von8
- Ober, Frederick Albion1
- Owen, Richard1
- Ramsay, Edward2
- Royal Society of London1
- Torbitt, James10
- Wallace, Alfred Russel4
- Whitaker, William1
- Wilson, Charles Algernon ("Algernon", "Ally", "Naturae Amator")1
- Würtenberger, Leopold1
- an unknown recipient1
- FEWER