From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 176
Summary:
Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.
A founding member of the Royal Agricultural Society sends information on the specificity of sheep varieties to soil types.
Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].
Sleep movements in Oxalis acetosella.
No summary available.
No summary available.
CD has read several papers by E. Perceval Wright and has a high opinion of his abilities and great zeal for natural science.
Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.