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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
12 February 1878
Source of text:
DAR 258: 865
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.
Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.
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.]
Will publish Origin first
and then Descent.
AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.