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DCP-LETT-11397

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[4 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 89
Summary:

Agricultural Society will not do potato experiments. Torbitt telegraphs that seeds to be sown tomorrow. Memorial with a few signatures might get grant from Government. Hooker believes plan the right one.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11398

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
[4 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Summary:

Has been poorly.

Comments on goose with abnormal wing.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11399

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 99
Summary:

No use in thinking about Royal Agricultural Society. William Carruthers, botanist of Society, thinks attempt hopeless. T. H. Farrer and James Caird are thinking of application to Government. Makes suggestions about experiments [on potatoes].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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