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DCP-LETT-12527

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 99
Summary:

Agrees that CD should write to the Times [about Torbitt’s potato experiments].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12532

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 202
Summary:

Sends seeds of Megarrhiza and gives details of species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12531

From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 105
Summary:

Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Feb 1880 and sends a cheque for balance due to CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12533

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 3
Summary:

Encloses letter from James Caird, who has entire confidence in CD’s appropriation of the money [collected for Torbitt’s experiments].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12534

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 163
Summary:

Hopes to finish his report tomorrow; last year’s crosses were failures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12536

From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 172: 67
Summary:

Sends pheasant tail coverts, which he believes are unusual in pattern, resembling those of a peacock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12381

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 52: E15
Summary:

On the disease-resisting qualities and yield of certain potatoes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12540

From:
Alfred Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 200
Summary:

Wishes to see some small appointment found for A. R. Wallace, whose present labours are trying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12542

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B57
Summary:

German edition of Erasmus Darwin delayed because Murray has not sent phototypes and galvanographs.

Two of CD’s articles from Nature to appear in April Kosmos ["Sexual colours in butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2, Kosmos 7 (1880): 72–4;

"Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20, Kosmos 7 (1880): 77–8].

Moritz Wagner will begin a series criticising natural selection.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12544

From:
Edward Sylvester Morse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 247; Nature , 15 April 1880, pp. 561–2
Summary:

Offended by F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of his Omori mound paper. Asks CD to have it reviewed elsewhere and encloses a letter to Nature he wants CD to forward. [See 12571.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12549

From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 4
Summary:

Is impressed by the scale of Torbitt’s experiments. Discusses financial assistance. If Torbitt’s work succeeds, they will be amply repaid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12551

From:
Christopher Columbus Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 12
Summary:

Informs CD that the letter CCG received from him has been framed to be hung in the Kentucky State House.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12556

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 203
Summary:

Germination and root of Ipomoea.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12557

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 164
Summary:

Is keeping down his expenditure; has some landowners growing potatoes for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12560

From:
S. M. Herzfeld
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 191
Summary:

Impoverished German doctor asks for money.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12558

From:
Jules (Saint Geniez) Rouquette
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 33
Summary:

Sends a poem he has composed in honour of CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12559

From:
Georg Heinrich Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 59
Summary:

Describes studies with Ernst Haeckel

and research on psychology of lower animals.

Sends book [Der thierische Wille (1880)] and describes his views on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13103A

From:
Jules (Saint Geniez) Rouquette
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR pamphlet R339: 2
Summary:

Quote from letter to Rouquette in dedication of an essay to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12562

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 204–6
Summary:

Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12563

From:
S. M. Herzfeld
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 192
Summary:

Thanks for cheque.

Wants to see CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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