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To James Torbitt   20 March 1880

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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.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  20 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12539

To Asa Gray   20 March [1880]

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.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  20 Mar [1880]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12541