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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 130
Summary:

Are plants that arise from vegetative propagation individuals or merely parts of the original parent plant?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 91
Summary:

Obliged for Belfast Journal.

Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 131
Summary:

Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.

Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
4 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 92
Summary:

Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.

Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:

Requests permission to publish CD’s previous letter [10440].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
6 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:

JT may publish CD’s letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:

Believes publishing CD’s letter will enable JT to suppress the potato disease several years sooner.

Returns CD’s answer to JT’s question "What is an individual?", and repeats his request for permission to publish it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 104
Summary:

JT may publish enclosed [letter by CD?], but it is not worth publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 132
Summary:

JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.

Seeking financial backing for his research.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter , 22 April 1876, p. 2
Summary:

Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 133
Summary:

Sends some potato plants and tubers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 134
Summary:

JT’s crossing experiments on potatoes. Attempts to develop resistance to Peronospora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
21 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 94
Summary:

Does not think that publishing his letters as advertisement [for potato experiments] would help JT’s cause, so CD cannot give permission.

Regrets that he has neither the time nor health to undertake crossing experiments with JT’s specimens. Discusses crossing varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 135
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s assistance and his advice on crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
House of Commons
Date:
6 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 136
Summary:

Exposes means whereby considerable amounts of whisky are being produced duty-free.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Henry Edward John Stanley, 3d Baron Stanley and 2d Baron Eddisbury
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
29 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 245
Summary:

Reports on potatoes grown from Torbitt’s seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 52: E2, DAR 178: 137
Summary:

Wants CD to forward to Chancellor of Exchequer a letter which explains the progress he has made in his potato crossing. Wants to print a CD letter to arouse public interest in the work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
26 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 96
Summary:

Comments on letter on potato experiments JT intends to publish. Will talk with T. H. Farrer concerning JT’s work. Could he undertake work if aided by moderate grant or subscription?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 484
Summary:

Thanks for letter. Prepared to continue experiments if aided. Thinks of distributing new [potato] varieties. Believes seeds should be planted this spring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project