Thanks HWC and the Birmingham Philosophical Society for their address in his honour.
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Thanks HWC and the Birmingham Philosophical Society for their address in his honour.
Thanks JLC for his letter, pedigree, and MS of the history of the Darwin family.
Going to London today to speak to T. H. Farrer about funds for potato breeding experiments. "I have told Farrer I would subscribe £50."
[Letter written as a postscript to 11406.] CD has reread his letter of 7 Mar 1878 about the value of James Torbitt’s work on the potato disease and has nothing to withdraw. Emphasises Torbitt’s need for immediate financial help.
Is in town and will call on Sunday morning.
The Colonel [J. L. Chester] is pleased [see 12509].
Jos[iah Wedgwood III] is dying.
Thanks for LW’s work [Studien über die Stammesgeschichte der Ammoniten (1880)].
Encloses check [cheque!?] for £50. James Caird will guarantee £75 and T. H. Farrer £25. Above gentlemen think JT should get report on his experiments from independent agriculturists.
P.S. to letter posted that morning. James Caird cannot pledge £75. Erasmus Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood will subscribe. May write letter to the Times. Asks for report on experiments.
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.
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.
Thanks for copy of TLB’s Pharmacology [1880].
Sends funds for potato experiments. Asks for information on progress.
Queries how much land has been used to cultivate potato varieties, and how many seedlings have been raised in any one year.
Asks about possible erratum in JT’s account of experiments.
Thanks for sending article on inheritance.
Asks for additional information about JT’s potato experiments.
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.
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.
Regrets delay of photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin].