From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 97
Summary:
Suggests Torbitt make a report on his progress so far.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 141
Summary:
Writes of the weather,
his reading of Huxley’s Crayfish [1880],
and domestic matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 2; DAR 164: 98
Summary:
Encloses note and cheque from James Caird [for Torbitt].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 99
Summary:
Agrees that CD should write to the Times [about Torbitt’s potato experiments].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 202
Summary:
Sends seeds of Megarrhiza and gives details of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 105
Summary:
Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Feb 1880 and sends a cheque for balance due to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 3
Summary:
Encloses letter from James Caird, who has entire confidence in CD’s appropriation of the money [collected for Torbitt’s experiments].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 163
Summary:
Hopes to finish his report tomorrow; last year’s crosses were failures.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 172: 67
Summary:
Sends pheasant tail coverts, which he believes are unusual in pattern, resembling those of a peacock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:
Sends details of Netter 1879 (Abraham Netter. 1879. De l’intuition dans les découvertes et inventions. Strasbourg: Treuttel & Wurtz.)
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 52: E15
Summary:
On the disease-resisting qualities and yield of certain potatoes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/2)
Summary:
A letter of resignation from the Down Schools Committee. He will send a cheque for balance in hand when he is informed as to whom it is to be sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 200
Summary:
Wishes to see some small appointment found for A. R. Wallace, whose present labours are trying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B57
Summary:
German edition of Erasmus Darwin delayed because Murray has not sent phototypes and galvanographs.
Two of CD’s articles from Nature to appear in April Kosmos ["Sexual colours in butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2, Kosmos 7 (1880): 72–4;
"Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20, Kosmos 7 (1880): 77–8].
Moritz Wagner will begin a series criticising natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sylvester Morse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 247; Nature , 15 April 1880, pp. 561–2
Summary:
Offended by F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of his Omori mound paper. Asks CD to have it reviewed elsewhere and encloses a letter to Nature he wants CD to forward. [See 12571.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 4
Summary:
Is impressed by the scale of Torbitt’s experiments. Discusses financial assistance. If Torbitt’s work succeeds, they will be amply repaid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Christopher Columbus Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 12
Summary:
Informs CD that the letter CCG received from him has been framed to be hung in the Kentucky State House.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 203
Summary:
Germination and root of Ipomoea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 164
Summary:
Is keeping down his expenditure; has some landowners growing potatoes for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
S. M. Herzfeld
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 191
Summary:
Impoverished German doctor asks for money.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project