From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 176
Summary:
Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 19
Summary:
A founding member of the Royal Agricultural Society sends information on the specificity of sheep varieties to soil types.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 114
Summary:
Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 179, 180
Summary:
Sleep movements in Oxalis acetosella.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Fawcett
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 February 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M7, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[28 February 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 191
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edinburgh University
Date:
28 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (July 1994)
Summary:
CD has read several papers by E. Perceval Wright and has a high opinion of his abilities and great zeal for natural science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Perceval Wright
Date:
28 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00525)
Summary:
Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project