From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
12 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 115
Summary:
Asks about possible erratum in JT’s account of experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whitaker
Date:
16 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks for sending article on inheritance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
17 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 116
Summary:
Asks for additional information about JT’s potato experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Summary:
Asks AG to confirm whether Ipomoea leptophylla "makes a great tuber as big as a mangel-wurzel".
Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
20 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 117
Summary:
Thanks for letter and documents [about potato experiments]. Will send testimonial letter to James Caird to be circulated among possible financial supporters of JT’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36204)
Summary:
Regrets delay of photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Caird
Date:
24 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 52: E7a, E9–14, E16v
Summary:
Encloses a statement regarding the progress of Torbitt’s potato experiments, and discusses the handling of the fund CD holds for Torbitt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130)
Summary:
Thanks for Megarrhiza seeds and information. Has been greatly interested by Megarrhiza germination.
Samuel Butler has attacked CD over Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
28 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 118
Summary:
"[James] Caird seems satisfied with what I have said of your method and the results hitherto attained." Can now promise to send £90 in the autumn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
29 Mar 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-12)
Summary:
Grieves with CWF at the approaching death of his father, W. D. Fox. Remembers how they breakfasted together every day at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
30 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 119
Summary:
Encloses letter about JT’s potato experiments sent to T. H. Farrer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Heinrich Schneider
Date:
3 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Alfred S. Posamentier (private collection)
Summary:
CD thanks the author for the copy of Der thierische Wille.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8973)
Summary:
Thanks for interesting letter; is sure it would be worth while to test fertility of illegitimate offspring of heterostyled plants.
Would welcome any information on occurrence of bloom-covered leaves on dry plains.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 [Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 156
Summary:
Discusses a book
and the "splendid news about the elections".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Faulds
Date:
7 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Faulds [1912?], pp. 22–3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Apr 1880
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/24)
Summary:
Encloses letter [see 12488] and circular from Henry Faulds [regarding thumb impressions]. Anthropology Institute may care about it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
9 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:
[Copy erroneously dated March.]
Has forwarded ESM’s letter to Nature ["Omori shell mounds", Collected papers 2: 222–3].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
9 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
Nature , 15 April 1880, p. 561
Summary:
Forwards a letter from E. S. Morse on Omori shell mounds refuting F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of Morse’s memoir ["The shell mounds of Omori", Mem. Sci. Dep. Univ. Tokyo 1 (1879) pt 1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
10 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-13)
Summary:
Condolences upon the death of CWF’s father, William Darwin Fox.
[Wrongly dated March by CD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 340)
Summary:
Sorry he missed THH’s lecture ["The coming of age of The origin of species", Royal Institution, 9 Apr 1880]. Has read press notices and heard from his children of its great success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project