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From:
James Caird
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 2
Summary:

Concerns [James] Torbitt’s potato plants and the question of their trial by the Experimental Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society and a request to the Government for the needed expense. THF and CD to set a date for consultation with the botanist [William] Carruthers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 1a
Summary:

Returns CD’s letter [11389] of which he has kept a copy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 1
Summary:

Success of James Torbitt’s potato experiments so far does not warrant an application for Government aid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project