From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
30 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 95
Summary:
Makes suggestions regarding statement on potato experiments to be published in Daily News.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Showing 61–63 of 63 items
Makes suggestions regarding statement on potato experiments to be published in Daily News.
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
In his Monographiae phanerogamarum [vol. 1 (1878)] he discusses transitional forms of dioecism in three genera of Smilax.
Criticises CD’s use of the words "purpose" and "end", but acknowledges that in English they can mean both cause and effect.
THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].