To J. D. Hooker [1 March 1878]
Summary
CD again asks JDH to support Torbitt’s project to breed disease-resistant potatoes. He has also sought support of Farrer, Duke of Richmond, and James Caird.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Mar 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 451–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11386 |
To James Torbitt 1 March 1878
Summary
T. H. Farrer has talked to James Caird. He believes Royal Agricultural Society will cultivate JT’s seeds. CD pledges £100 for JT’s own experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 1 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11387 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 or 4 March 1878]
Summary
His attempts to obtain a Government grant for Torbitt seem hopeless.
CD is suffering from constant swimming of the head.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 or 4 Mar 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 453–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11390 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 March 1878
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.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 103–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11391 |
From John Michels 2 March 1878
Summary
Describes a post-mortem dissection of a chimpanzee’s brain. The several doctors who observed it were struck by its resemblance to the human brain.
Author: | John Michels |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11393 |
To S. B. J. Skertchly 2 March 1878
Summary
Thanks for letter. Comments on SBJS’s research on Palaeolithic flint tools.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly |
Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 480 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11394 |
From S. B. J. Skertchly 4 March 1878
Summary
Thanks CD for his expression of interest in SBJS’s work. His researches on the age and divisions of the Palaeolithic period will be published soon by the Geological Survey [On the manufacture of gun-flints, the methods of excavating for flint, the age of Palaeolithic man, etc. (1879)].
Author: | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11395 |
From James Caird 4 March 1878
Summary
Returns CD’s letter [11389] of which he has kept a copy.
Author: | James Caird |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11396 |
To W. H. Flower [4 March 1878]
Summary
Has been poorly.
Comments on goose with abnormal wing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | [4 Mar 1878] |
Classmark: | John Innes Foundation Historical Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11398 |
To James Torbitt 4 March 1878
Summary
No use in thinking about Royal Agricultural Society. William Carruthers, botanist of Society, thinks attempt hopeless. T. H. Farrer and James Caird are thinking of application to Government. Makes suggestions about experiments [on potatoes].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 4 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11399 |
To A. S. Wilson 6 March 1878
Summary
Thanks for essays by ASW ["Experiments with turnip seeds", Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 13 (1876–9): 25–39, and a short notice, "Experiments in singling turnips"] and Aegilops seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 6 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 362 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11402 |
From James Torbitt 6 March 1878
Summary
Problems of continuing with his crossing experiments; financial help from CD.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11403 |
From James Grant 6 March 1878
Summary
As a believer in the existence of God from the evidence of nature, he is somewhat staggered by CD’s and Tyndall’s books. Asks CD to tell him whether the doctrine of descent of man destroys the evidence of the existence of a God looked at through natural phenomena.
Author: | James Miller (James) Grant |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11404 |
To G. J. Romanes 7 March 1878
Summary
CD’s gardener says not to sow onion seeds until middle of March. Should he risk sowing them at once?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 7 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.531) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11405 |
From Anton Schobloch 9 March 1878
Author: | Anton Schobloch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11408 |
From Anton Stecker 9 March 1878
Summary
Intends to translate Origin and Descent into Bohemian to be published at Prague; asks CD’s permission to do so.
Author: | Anton Stecker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 249 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11411 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1878]
Summary
Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Mar [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11412F |
To James Torbitt 11 March [1878]
Summary
T. H. Farrer and James Caird think it would be less trouble to get subscription from rich agriculturists than from Government. CD thinks it utopian to hope to raise variety of potatoes from seed; must be propagated from tubers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 11 Mar [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11413 |
To James Grant 11 March 1878
Summary
The strongest argument for the existence of God is the intuitive feeling that there must have been an intelligent beginner of the universe; "but then comes the doubt and difficulty whether such intuitions are trustworthy". CD is forced to leave the problem insoluble. "No man who does his duty has anything to fear, and may hope for whatever he earnestly desires."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Miller (James) Grant |
Date: | 11 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (12 December 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11416 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 March 1878
Summary
Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.
Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 105–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11417 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Torbitt, James | (7) |
Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Allen, Grant | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Farrer, T. H. | (9) |
Torbitt, James | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Farrer, T. H. | (13) |
Torbitt, James | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Grant, James | (3) |
Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
Skertchly, S. B. J. | (3) |
Wilson, A. S. | (3) |
Allen, Grant | (2) |
Caird, James | (2) |
Hacon, W. M. | (2) |
Moschkau, Alfred | (2) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (2) |
Stecker, Anton | (2) |
Darwin, Sara | (1) |
Flower, W. H. | (1) |
Franklin Society | (1) |
Howell, J. W. | (1) |
Lynch, R. I. | (1) |
Michels, John | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Nash, Wallis | (1) |
Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Schobloch, Anton | (1) |
Sedgwick, Sara | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Wedgwood, Sophy | (1) |
Yeo, G. F. | (1) |