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DCP-LETT-11452

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 471–2
Summary:

Studying geotropism.

Experiments using exposure to frost to study nyctitropism are difficult to perform because species vary in frost tolerance.

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DCP-LETT-11455

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gerald Francis Yeo
Date:
29 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 99
Summary:

Wishes to contribute to the memorial for Claude Bernard, but first wants to be assured that, in his experiments, Bernard was not reckless with respect to the suffering of animals.

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DCP-LETT-11457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 96b
Summary:

Thanks THF and James Caird for their assistance. Will send back the £100 to Torbitt.

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DCP-LETT-11458

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
31 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 103
Summary:

Sends £100 to JT. T. H. Farrer and James Caird think they can get another £100 next year [for potato experiments].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11912

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 29 (EH 88205967)
Summary:

Sends W. K. Clifford subscription.

Has been unwell and hardly able to do anything. Has seen Andrew Clark.

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DCP-LETT-11407

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 92; Linnean Society of London (MS 489)
Summary:

If THF and James Caird [Enclosure Commissioner] approve of enclosed letter, CD will send it to Hooker.

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