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DCP-LETT-12523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 [Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 101; DAR 177: 340
Summary:

Describes subscription for Torbitt [to continue potato experiments]. Would dislike writing to any paper, but Hensleigh [Wedgwood] and Erasmus [Darwin] advise CD to write to the Times.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12524

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 141
Summary:

Writes of the weather,

his reading of Huxley’s Crayfish [1880],

and domestic matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12526

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 2; DAR 164: 98
Summary:

Encloses note and cheque from James Caird [for Torbitt].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12527

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 99
Summary:

Agrees that CD should write to the Times [about Torbitt’s potato experiments].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12528

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
9 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 46
Summary:

Thanks THF for his contribution; now has £170 to permit Torbitt to carry on his experiments. Describes the scale of the experiments and his belief in their value.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 169
Summary:

Thanks for copy of TLB’s Pharmacology [1880].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12530

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 114
Summary:

Sends funds for potato experiments. Asks for information on progress.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12530F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
11 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (9 November 2016)
Summary:

Queries how much land has been used to cultivate potato varieties, and how many seedlings have been raised in any one year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12532

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 202
Summary:

Sends seeds of Megarrhiza and gives details of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12533

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 3
Summary:

Encloses letter from James Caird, who has entire confidence in CD’s appropriation of the money [collected for Torbitt’s experiments].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12534

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 163
Summary:

Hopes to finish his report tomorrow; last year’s crosses were failures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12535

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
12 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 115
Summary:

Asks about possible erratum in JT’s account of experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12536

From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 172: 67
Summary:

Sends pheasant tail coverts, which he believes are unusual in pattern, resembling those of a peacock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whitaker
Date:
16 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for sending article on inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12537F

From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

Sends details of Netter 1879 (Abraham Netter. 1879. De l’intuition dans les découvertes et inventions. Strasbourg: Treuttel & Wurtz.)

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12538

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

DCP-LETT-12538A

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

DCP-LETT-12539

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

DCP-LETT-12540

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

DCP-LETT-12541

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
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