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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:
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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 107–8
Summary:

Has been consulting with Mrs Lyell about the possibility of publishing Lyell’s letters. Asks CD’s opinion on the matter.

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