From J. D. Hooker [14 March 1858]
Summary
Summary of JDH’s objections to CD’s survey of floras and conclusion that large genera vary more than small.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 182–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2240 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … of JDH’s objections to CD’s survey of floras and conclusion that large genera vary more …
- … 1810 ). Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) Flora ( Hooker 1855–60 ). Hooker and Thomson 1855. …
- … George. 1858. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the flowering plants and …
- … Reeve. Brown, Robert. 1810. Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen, …
- … always. I quite see in what respect local Floras are much the best suited to your purpose; …
- … out upon the same principles as the general Floras, but the fact that they are not so, and …
- … Richard Taylor. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1855–60. Flora Tasmaniæ. Pt 3 of The botany of the …
- … Ledebour, Karl Friedrich von. 1842–53. Flora Rossica sive enumeratio plantarum in totius …
- … works to record them. Had I been doing the Flora Indica as I should have done with an eye …
- … curious to see the results of Benthams British Flora— He reduces the Rubi to 6 species, I …
- … I shall certainly go over the Tasmanian Flora for your sake, & see whether or no I should …
- … character. thus,—supposing in the VDL Flora I have but one species of Banksia which is …
To Richard Kippist 10 March [1858]
Summary
In great want of two books, which he had borrowed previously: Boreau Flora du Centre de la France and A. E. Fürnrohr, Naturhistorische Topographie von Regensburg, Bd 2 Flora Ratisbonensis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (15 November 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2238 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … of two books, which he had borrowed previously: Boreau Flora du Centre de la France and A. …
- … E. Fürnrohr, Naturhistorische Topographie von Regensburg , Bd 2 Flora Ratisbonensis . …
- … oblige me? The Books are the vol. of Boreau’s Flora du Centre de la France which includes …
- … genus Carex. And Flora Ratisbonensis (Naturhistorische Topog: von Regensburg) Dr. A. …
- … Press. 1985–. Fürnrohr, August Emanuel. 1839. Flora Ratisbonensis, oder Uebersicht der um …
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1858
Summary
Has gone over to CD’s side on the fertilisation of clover in New Zealand by bees.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 120–1; L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 453 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2204 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … George. 1858. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the flowering plants and …
- … Joseph Dalton and Thomson, Thomas. 1855. Flora Indica: being a systematic account of the …
- … Bentham’s late researches into the British Flora have so greatly modified his views of the …
- … in my eyes they invalidate the results of local Floras very materially. He has completed …
- … the MS. of his British Flora, having studied every species from all parts of the world, …
- … admirable Botanist) who on receiving the Flora Indica, wrote me most kindly and earnestly …
- … George Bentham ’s Handbook of the British flora was published in 1858 ( Bentham 1858 ). In …
- … had expressed their views on species in Flora Indica ( J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855 , pp. …
From J. D. Hooker 12 November 1858
Summary
Busy with introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III] Flora Tasmaniae [printed separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)].
Now explains greater abundance of European species in Tasmania than in Fuegia by CD’s "refrigeration" hypothesis.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 123–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2358 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … to [ The botany of the Antarctic voyage , pt III] Flora Tasmaniae [printed separately …
- … as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. Now explains greater abundance of European species …
- … 1927–96. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. Pt …
- … Reeve Brothers. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1855–60. Flora Tasmaniæ. Pt 3 of The botany of the …
- … very busy with the Introd Essay to Tasmanian Flora, & am dealing with the Australian as a …
- … preponderance of local distinct species in the Flora I must hook on to the destruction of …
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1858]
Summary
JDH’s "objection" that small local genera do not vary and mundane ones do, is exactly CD’s point. Local floras useful to test idea that varieties are incipient species. Same genus in different countries cannot be lumped.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2239 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … ones do, is exactly CD’s point. Local floras useful to test idea that varieties are …
- … CD gave his reasons for preferring local floras in Natural selection , pp. 155–9. CD’ …
- … as other calculations drawn from local floras and individual volumes of Candolle and …
- … that for my theoretical object that local Floras are the best; my object being to see …
- … to find more than three-fourths of the Floras, yielding the result, which they have. — But …
- … so fatal, in my opinion, if in a local Flora. — I was led to all this work by a remark of …
To Asa Gray 11 August [1858]
Summary
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2321 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits …
- … as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna. Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae. …
- … the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological …
- … upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of …
- … southward) by a nearly uniform Fauna & Flora, just as the Arctic regions now are. — The …
- … summits the remnants of a once continuous flora & fauna. — This is E. Forbes’ theory, …
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … JDH’s Australian introduction. Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora. …
- … an introductory essay ( Hooker 1859 ) for his flora of Tasmania (see letters from J. D. …
- … before the Glacial period a very peculiar Flora, & having by means of ice-carriage tinted …
- … When you discuss the alpine Australian Floras you will have to enter on this subject, & …
- … assured by Dr. Hooker is real, between the flora of the south-western corner of Australia …
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1858
Summary
Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.
Still regards plant types as older than animal types.
The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 128–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2382 |
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- … Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of …
- … what was general character of Australian Flora at that epoch. Jukes I find speculates in …
- … connect the Cape & Australian temperate Floras; they want all the types common to both & …
- … c & you have an amount of similarity in the Floras, & dissimilarity to that of Abyssynia & …
- … South African features of the Australian flora are discussed in Hooker 1859 , pp. xcii– …
- … 1859 , p. civ. Hooker discussed the fossil flora of Australia in Hooker 1859 , pp. c–ci. …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1858]
Summary
Memorial concerning British Museum collection.
Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 258 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2386 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation …
- … of the south-western and south-eastern floras of Australia in Hooker 1859 , pp. liv–lv. …
- … motives! What you say about the Cape Flora’s direct relation to Australia is a great …
- … some degree connect the extratropical floras of Cape & Australia? To my mind the enormous …
From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858]
Summary
At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: E1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2367 |
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … George. 1858. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the flowering plants and …
- … the propriety of working one or two of your Floras by purging them of stragglers, & such …
- … published until the 1870s, when Hooker’s Flora of British India (7 vols. , London, 1872– …
- … of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere. 2 vols. London. [Vols. 5,7,8] …
- … or rather, of your argument in favor of small Floras, except you confine the latter to the …
- … O s being worse for your purpose than local Floras. — viz—1. that conditions do not go on …
From H. C. Watson [after 23 March 1858]
Summary
Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 45: 16–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1808 |
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- … prevalent among botanists who have published Floras of the British Islands within the last …
- … of William Jackson Hooker’s The British flora (London, 1830). The sixth (1850), seventh ( …
- … are explained. 2 vols. London. Hudson, William. 1798. Flora Anglica. 3d ed. London. …
- … John. 1835. A synopsis of the British flora, arranged according to the natural orders; …
- … Dr Arnott, editions 6 and 7) of the British Flora . I therefore take the four successive …
To J. D. Hooker 21 July [1858]
Summary
Correcting proof for CD–Wallace paper. Has begun abstract.
Large and small genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2311 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … George. 1858. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the flowering plants and …
- … and had not previously studied the British flora. CD and Hooker considered Bentham to be a …
- … says it will be very curious to see a Flora written by a man who knows nothing of British …
- … If you would at some future time purge some Floras of stragglers, I would have the vars. …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [April 1858]
Summary
Confidential revelation concerning W. F. Daniell.
Georg Hartung confirms CD’s supposition from flora of Azores that icebergs had been stranded there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 232 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2263 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 December 1858]
Summary
JDH cannot abide CD’s connection of wide-ranging species and "highness". Australian flora contradicts this in many ways.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Dec 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 125–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2385 |
To C. C. Babington 4 March [1858]
Summary
Notes views of Hooker and George Bentham on monotypic forms.
Has tabulated several floras and finds that large genera show preponderance in numbers of varieties. Now sees his results are quite worthless.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2233 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [March 1858]
Summary
Heartened that tabulations of small and large genera done in different ways yield good results. JDH has done some tabulations but has not followed CD’s method of getting equal numbers of small and large genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 [Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2237 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 March 1858
Summary
Continued objections to methods and conclusions of CD’s survey.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 115e–f |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2243 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1858]
Summary
On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 220 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2201 |
To Charles Cardale Babington 22 February [1858]
Summary
CD and J. D. Hooker have differed on the following question and agreed to ask several botanists: would a good botanist describing a local flora record varieties as readily in large as in small genera?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2220 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Watson, H. C. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (19) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Babington, C. C. | (2) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Babington, C. C. | (2) |
| Watson, H. C. | (2) |
Suggested reading
Summary
Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … & imported well worth studying probably— Thunberg Flora Japonica [Thunberg 1784] in …
- … Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] (read) Babbington on Flora of Channel Isl d . [Babington 1839 …
- … of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ].— Flora of St Helena 1825 [A. Watson 1825] in …
- … Himallaya & high Peru [Meyen 1836].— Phillippi on Flora of Sicily [Philippi 1836].— …
- … 1781]. Linn. on insects [Linnaeus 1781b]. Forsskahl on Flora of insects [Forsskahl 1781]. Avelin on …
- … trees of America [Downing 1845] 24 th Hopkirks Flora Anomala [Hopkirk 1817] July 8 …
- … ]. (since I read up old) (read) all Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy …
- … Hornschuck Essay on the Sporting of Plants. in the ‘Flora’ or separate [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in …
- … 97 [DAR *128: 169] Wahlenberg Flora Suecica [Wahlenberg 1824–6]— most curious …
- … Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees [Ramond de Carbonnières 1799–1801 …
- … 50 c. [Goethe 1837] [DAR *128: 150] Heers Flora Helvetica Tertiaria, translated …
- … [Pitton de Tournefort 1718]. skimmed 27. Gmelin Flora Siberica [Gmelin 1747–69] 1855. …
- … Primitiæ floræ sarnicæ; or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, …
- … Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus. 1836. Bemerkungen über die Flora der Südseeinseln. Annalen der Wien …
- … 119: 17b Forsskahl, Jonas Gustav. 1781. The flora of insects. In Linnaeus, ed., Select …
- … 119: 17a Gmelin, Johann Georg. 1747–69. Flora Sibirica sive historia plantarum …
- … 119: 22b Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica . Pt 1 of The botany of the …
- … Library.] 128: 8 Hopkirk, Thomas. 1817. Flora Anomoia. A general view of the …
- … Friedrich. 1848. Ueber Ausartung der Pflanzen. Flora 31: 17–28; 33–44; 50–64; 66–8. *128: 177 …
- … London. 119: 18b Leidy, Joseph. 1853. A flora and fauna within living animals. …
- … 128: 13 Michaux, François André. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana . 2 vols. Paris. *119: …
- … 163 Philippi, Rudolph Armandus. 1836. Ueber die Flora Siciliens, im Vergleiche zu den …
- … natural history of the Himalayan mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere . 2 vols. London. …
- … and physick. To which is added the calendar of flora . London. [Other eds.] 119: 11a …
- … . London. 128: 6 Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1784. Flora Japonica . Lipsiae. *119: 6v. …
- … 21b Torrey, John and Gray, Asa. 1838–43. A flora of North America: containing …
- … Zurich. *128: 169 ——. 1824–6. Flora Suecica . Upsalla. *128: 169 Walker, …
- … *119: 19v.; 119: 16a Watson, Alexander. 1825. Flora Sta Helenica . St Helena. *119: 7v …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Darwin returns the manuscript of Hooker’s On the Flora of Australia , which he has proofread. …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … it in Plants. I have the greatest curiosity about the alpine Flora of the United States and I have …
- … and hearty admiration. [Your paper on the Statistics of the flora of the northern United States] …
- … and flatter myself I now appreciate the character of your Flora… One of your conclusions makes me …
- … I presume he has been urging you to finish your great Flora, before you do anything else. Now, I …
- … GRINDING AWAY: 1888 In which Gray grinds away at his Flora before suffering a stroke and …
- … 212 My dear Hooker…I grind away at [my] ‘Flora’ but, like the mills of the gods, I grind slowly, …
2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal
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< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…
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- … and autodidact, with a special interest in mosses; his Flora of Warwickshire (1891) was based on …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Marianne North
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Marianne North was born in Hastings where her father became a Liberal MP. Her family supported Marianne’s attempts at singing and painting as suitable activities for a Victorian lady. After her parents died, Marianne sold the family home and began…
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … himself a single problem–namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be accounted for? . . . …
Biogeography
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
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- … many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most vivid …
ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. This …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … excitement of South American cities, cultures, geography, flora and fauna) Darwin complains to his …
The Letters
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Darwin’s correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general. Letters form the largest single category of Darwin’s…
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- … who provided him with observations on the fauna, flora, and peoples of the world. The correspondence …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
1.11 Laura Russell, oil
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< Back to Introduction This little oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Laura Russell, daughter of Jules, vicomte de Peyronnet. She was married to Arthur Russell, MP for Tavistock; he was one of the sons of Lord William Russell, and his elder…
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- … 1869, when Laura was eight months pregnant with her daughter Flora. They visited Down House several …
Search tips
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In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…
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- … care. We have manually coded some group identifiers (“flora” eg), index terms such as people, …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … work. When Darwin had read the introduction to Hooker’s Flora of New Zealand in October 1853, he …
Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … to Hooker. Indeed, when Hooker was writing his essay on the flora of Australia in December 1858, he …
