From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 150
Summary:
Hopes to visit [Sara and William] later in the year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 451–2
Summary:
CD again asks JDH to support Torbitt’s project to breed disease-resistant potatoes. He has also sought support of Farrer, Duke of Richmond, and James Caird.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
1 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 98
Summary:
T. H. Farrer has talked to James Caird. He believes Royal Agricultural Society will cultivate JT’s seeds. CD pledges £100 for JT’s own experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 88
Summary:
Describes James Torbitt’s plan for producing disease-resistant potato varieties. [Letter is an earlier version of 11406.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 480
Summary:
Thanks for letter. Comments on SBJS’s research on Palaeolithic flint tools.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[after 2 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 1b
Summary:
Forwards letter from James Caird concerning funds for potato experiments. CD will correct his letter to THF [11389] and then forward it to Hooker for his opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 or 4 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 453–4
Summary:
His attempts to obtain a Government grant for Torbitt seem hopeless.
CD is suffering from constant swimming of the head.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 29 (EH 88205967)
Summary:
Sends W. K. Clifford subscription.
Has been unwell and hardly able to do anything. Has seen Andrew Clark.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[4 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 89
Summary:
Agricultural Society will not do potato experiments. Torbitt telegraphs that seeds to be sown tomorrow. Memorial with a few signatures might get grant from Government. Hooker believes plan the right one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 99
Summary:
No use in thinking about Royal Agricultural Society. William Carruthers, botanist of Society, thinks attempt hopeless. T. H. Farrer and James Caird are thinking of application to Government. Makes suggestions about experiments [on potatoes].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
6 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 362
Summary:
Thanks for essays by ASW ["Experiments with turnip seeds", Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 13 (1876–9): 25–39, and a short notice, "Experiments in singling turnips"] and Aegilops seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 92; Linnean Society of London (MS 489)
Summary:
If THF and James Caird [Enclosure Commissioner] approve of enclosed letter, CD will send it to Hooker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
11 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 93
Summary:
Has returned letter to Caird and dispatched corrected letter to Hooker [11406] [concerning potato experiments].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
11 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 100
Summary:
T. H. Farrer and James Caird think it would be less trouble to get subscription from rich agriculturists than from Government. CD thinks it utopian to hope to raise variety of potatoes from seed; must be propagated from tubers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 94
Summary:
Hooker approves of Torbitt’s plan [concerning potato experiments]. Torbitt, wine and spirit merchant in Belfast, highly respectable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 436
Summary:
CD gives his opinion on how the physiological laboratory at Kew should be equipped. It would be a pity if the laboratory were not supplied with as many good instruments as their funds could provide.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
16 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 363
Summary:
Thanks for second lot of Aegilops seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
20 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 102
Summary:
Discusses sterility of potato flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
21 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 102
Summary:
Asks how much aid JT requires [for potato experiments].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood
Date:
24 Mar [1878-80]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 4251: 333)
Summary:
Asks her to observe seedlings of Neottia breaking the surface to see whether the flower stems grow straight up or form arches, and whether they secrete water that softens the surrounding ground.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project