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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
1 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 107
Summary:

Has seen newspaper accounts of JT’s potato experiments. T. H. Farrer wants to know whether JT has published any account of them, and how much assistance he needs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
7 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 108
Summary:

Wrote to T. H. Farrer about JT’s potato experiments. Would be calamity if JT were prevented from trying successful fungus-proof variety for a few more years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 109
Summary:

Describes problems of raising money [for potato experiments]. "A Government official in another office remarked to me that it was very difficult for Ministers to decide what to do in such cases as they must be prepared for mere cavillers in the H[ouse] of Commons."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project