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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.531)
Summary:

CD’s gardener says not to sow onion seeds until middle of March. Should he risk sowing them at once?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 87
Summary:

Believes letter from CD endorsed by JDH will virtually guarantee Government or private support for Torbitt’s experiments. Queries experimental procedure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 88
Summary:

Caird agrees that there will be no difficulty in getting finances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Anton Schobloch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 34
Summary:

Asks CD to explain why there are hermaphrodites.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Anton Stecker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 249
Summary:

Intends to translate Origin and Descent into Bohemian to be published at Prague; asks CD’s permission to do so.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Jones Agnew Bristow
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
11 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 304
Summary:

Reports on the standing of James Torbitt: "the opinion of the Public is that he is rich and highly respectable".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
11 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 93
Summary:

Has returned letter to Caird and dispatched corrected letter to Hooker [11406] [concerning potato experiments].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Miller (James) Grant
Date:
11 Mar 1878
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (12 December 2017)
Summary:

The strongest argument for the existence of God is the intuitive feeling that there must have been an intelligent beginner of the universe; "but then comes the doubt and difficulty whether such intuitions are trustworthy". CD is forced to leave the problem insoluble. "No man who does his duty has anything to fear, and may hope for whatever he earnestly desires."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310)
Summary:

Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
11 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 100
Summary:

T. H. Farrer and James Caird think it would be less trouble to get subscription from rich agriculturists than from Government. CD thinks it utopian to hope to raise variety of potatoes from seed; must be propagated from tubers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 105–6
Summary:

Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.

Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
12 Mar 1878
Source of text:
Viscount Boyd of Merton (private collection)
Summary:

Sends FS some specimens of harvesting ants along with the observations of their habits made by Mary Treat. If the facts are new, he believes that Mrs Treat would be gratified by their being mentioned before the Entomological Society. [See 11422.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Stecker
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 250
Summary:

Will publish Origin first

and then Descent.

AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 41
Summary:

Sends MS of his paper, "On the coloration of flowers and fruits", filling a gap in CD’s theory relating to these structures, and asks for CD’s comments.

Plans a book on colour sense.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 94
Summary:

Hooker approves of Torbitt’s plan [concerning potato experiments]. Torbitt, wine and spirit merchant in Belfast, highly respectable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anton Stecker
Date:
13 Mar 1878
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Authorises publication of a Bohemian edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 198
Summary:

Thanks CD for specimens of, and curious facts on, the "harvesting ant".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 436
Summary:

CD gives his opinion on how the physiological laboratory at Kew should be equipped. It would be a pity if the laboratory were not supplied with as many good instruments as their funds could provide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 139
Summary:

Talk of a subscription to help JT’s experiments. Progress of experiment; loss of fungus-resistance in varieties as they age.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project