From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 111
Summary:
On crossing Aegilops.
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:
John Simon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 166
Summary:
Has sent CD a paper partly relating to Dr Creighton’s curious observations ["Some points of science and practice concerning cancer", Br. Med. J. (1878) pt 1: 219–24].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 500
Summary:
Asks CD’s opinion on number of copies to be printed of Cross and self-fertilisation [2d ed.]. Now that it is revised, they will stereotype.
Type of Forms of flowers stands, awaiting CD’s corrections, before stereotyping and printing of more copies.
RC regrets delay in supply of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 176
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his memoir on the fenland [Geology of the fenland (1877)].
Outlines the results of his recent researches into the geological history of man, the development of Palaeolithic culture, the occurrence of Palaeolithic remains in the boulder-clays of eastern England, and their relation to glacial and inter-glacial periods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 86
Summary:
CD’s quest for Government support for potato experiments by James Torbitt.
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
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 112
Summary:
Fertilisation of wheat.
Would like to borrow Wilhelm Rimpau’s papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 46
Summary:
He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 103–4
Summary:
Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Michels
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 177
Summary:
Describes a post-mortem dissection of a chimpanzee’s brain. The several doctors who observed it were struck by its resemblance to the human brain.
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:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 177
Summary:
Thanks CD for his expression of interest in SBJS’s work. His researches on the age and divisions of the Palaeolithic period will be published soon by the Geological Survey [On the manufacture of gun-flints, the methods of excavating for flint, the age of Palaeolithic man, etc. (1879)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Miller (James) Grant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 89
Summary:
As a believer in the existence of God from the evidence of nature, he is somewhat staggered by CD’s and Tyndall’s books. Asks CD to tell him whether the doctrine of descent of man destroys the evidence of the existence of a God looked at through natural phenomena.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 138
Summary:
Problems of continuing with his crossing experiments; financial help from CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 87
Summary:
Believes letter from CD endorsed by JDH will virtually guarantee Government or private support for Torbitt’s experiments. Queries experimental procedure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 88
Summary:
Caird agrees that there will be no difficulty in getting finances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Schobloch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 34
Summary:
Asks CD to explain why there are hermaphrodites.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Stecker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 249
Summary:
Intends to translate Origin and Descent into Bohemian to be published at Prague; asks CD’s permission to do so.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 105–6
Summary:
Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.
Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
