From George Bentham 10 December 1876
Summary
Sends specimens of Boronia.
Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10708 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Boronia . Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [ Cross and …
- … pp. 410–11. Pandaceae is a family of trees and shrubs in the order Malpighiales. Paliris …
- … are deciduous leaves and other fragments of trees or shrubs mostly very similar to modern …
- … separation of sexes was much more common in trees than in herbaceous plants in Britain, …
- … the pigweed family. Eucalypts or gum trees, which belong to Eucalyptus and two other …
- … the family Fabaceae, are the principal trees in Australian forests. Restiaceae is roughly …
- … the idea (possibly a correct one) that trees were more frequently diclinous than herbs was …
- … with a small number of gregarious diclinous trees and where diclinous herbs are few though …
To Nature 6 May [1876]
Summary
Reports seeing flowers of wild cherry bitten off in same manner as primroses [see 9418 and 9444]. In this case it was done by a squirrel, though birds also bite the flowers of the cherry-tree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 6 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 11 May 1876, p. 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10498 |
From Gaston de Saporta 2 September 1876
Summary
Claims to have proved the great antiquity of several plant races. But this does not contradict the tendency to vary. Insists that heredity can make permanent varieties of sufficient duration to occur as fossils.
| Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10587 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … whether living or fossil, and above all the trees and shrubs that I have recently studied, …
- … this for a host of our most characteristic tree species, the second is that evolution from …
- … in European or American oaks, in pear trees etc. ... the races, subspecies, and specific …
- … is the Italian maple; Pistacia is a genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae (cashew or …
- … vol. 16), Saporta had drawn CD’s attention to his discovery of a tree that seemed halfway …
- … between Pistacia terebinthus (turpentine tree) and P. …
- … lentiscus (mastic tree). …
- … The tree, Pistacia miocenica (a synonym of P. terebinthus ), was described in Saporta …
- … races— Since I see in my country species of trees and shrubs, I am finding these all the …
From Hermann Hoffmann 10 January 1876
Summary
Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.
| Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10353 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 February [1876]
Summary
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10391 |
From Peter Henderson 15 November 1876
Summary
Reports graft-hybrids in Cytisus.
| Author: | Peter Henderson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10673 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1876
Summary
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10658 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … from Down House. Knockholt beeches, a stand of trees in the village of Knockholt, is about …
From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Cecropia peltata is the embauba or trumpet tree. CD paid £21 for a typewriter on 2 May …
From Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Cecropia peltata is the embauba or trumpet tree. His paper ‘On the hygroscopic mechanism …
To Fritz Müller [9 February 1876]
Summary
Has sent FM’s letter on to Nature ["Brazil kitchen middens, habits of ants, etc.", Nature 13 (1876): 304–5].
Would be grateful for Ceropegia seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | [9 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 38) (EH 88205868) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10384 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of leaves of Cecropia (the embauba or trumpet tree). CD misread the genus name (see letter …
To Fritz Müller [18 February 1876]
Summary
Has received seeds of Cecropia peltata from Kew.
Has asked Hermann Müller to send copy of FM’s paper as soon as published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | [18 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 39) (EH 88205869) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10400 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Cecropia peltata (the embauba or trumpet-tree). The excrescences CD refers to are the food …
From M. T. Masters 26 January 1876
Summary
In response to CD’s query, answers that he has frequently heard discussions at the Horticultural Society of a saccharine secretion from leaves of the lime and has no doubt it really does occur. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 402.]
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10367 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of ‘honey-dew’ on the leaves of lime trees ( Tilia ) had been raised at meetings of the …
From Richard Spruce [1876–7]
Summary
Notes on various instances of dimorphic stamens.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1876–7] |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: B119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4372 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Tiliaceous genus Mollia are low trees with long, distichous leaves, and axillary …
To Moritz Wagner 13 October 1876
Summary
Comments on essays by MW [Das Ausland, May 1875]. Criticises his theory of isolation as source of species change: "But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being". Believes MW has misunderstood his views: "I believe that all the individuals of a species can be slowly modified within the same district … I do not believe that one species will give birth to two or more new species, as long as they are mingled together within the same district."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 198; LL 3: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10643 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … for instance in a Picus for climbing trees & catching insects,—or in a Strix for catching …
From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 February 1876
Summary
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10402 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and Cecropia peltata (the embauba or trumpet-tree) were the species sent. Francis Darwin …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Henderson, Peter | (1) |
| Hoffmann, Hermann | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Wagner, Moritz | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
Matches: 4 hits
- … in Hertfordshire and a leading authority on roses and fruit trees. Darwin initiated the …
- … with detailed information about bud variation in fruit trees, strawberries, roses, and laburnum, and …
- … first read Origin, Rivers was led to consider the growth of trees over several years: how a patch of …
- … on the transmission of characters in weeping ash and thorn trees: “it is Capital for my Purpose”. …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
Matches: 16 hits
- … ] Mr Coxe “view of the cultivation of Fruit trees in N. America [Coxe 1817].— in Library of …
- … 1835] (Gerard [Gérard 1844]) Fruit & Fruit Trees of America by A. Downing Wiley & …
- … at end April 13 th . Boutcher & Forsyth on Forest trees [Boutcher 1775 and Forsyth 1791 …
- … on œconomy of nature [Biberg 1759]. Barck on foliation of trees [Barck 1759]. Hasselgren on Swedish …
- … & Clarke [Lewis and Clark 1814] Boutcher & Forsyth on Forest Trees [Boutcher 1775 and …
- … 1845] skimmed. June 17 th . Downing Fruit & Forest trees of America [Downing 1845] …
- … p. 209 to 268.) 99 Great work by Decaisne on Fruit Trees. Le Jardin Fruitier [Decaisne …
- … a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers . Revised by …
- … 119: 2a Anon. 1839a. Loudon’s British trees and shrubs . Edinburgh Review 69: …
- … *119: 15v. Barck, Harald. 1759. On the foliation of trees. In Stillingfleet, Benjamin, ed., …
- … Boutcher, William. 1775. A treatise on forest trees . Edinburgh. 119: 7a, 13a …
- … William. 1817. A view of the cultivation of fruit trees . Philadelphia. *119: 4v. …
- … Downing, Andrew Jackson. 1845. The fruits and fruit trees of America . London. [Darwin …
- … Evelyn, John. 1664. Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber … To …
- … defects, and injuries in all kinds of fruit and forest trees. London. 119: 7a, 13a …
- … 1838. Arboretum et Fructicetum Britannicum; or the trees and shrubs of Britain, native and …
Visiting the Darwins
Summary
'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
Matches: 3 hits
- … shrubbery at one side, gravel walks, flower beds, nice trees with seats beneath them, & green …
- … shrubbery at one side, gravel walks, flower beds, nice trees with seats beneath them, & green …
- … lane, to see some old oak boles, almost as big as California trees in diameter, but only shells— Mr. …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 29 hits
- … where more than thirty feet above the sea, covered with palm trees and encircling a large shallow …
- … limits but all the Islets being covered with lofty coconut trees – they are for all intents or …
- … a half of its superfices - the remainder being covered with trees of other species of the class – …
- … of land around at an equal height by the tops of the coconut trees – As a white cloud here and there …
- … down to high water mark with green bushes and tall coconut trees – in the flat of coral rock nearly …
- … water, and at high tide – the leafy branches of the bushy trees particularly those of a willow …
- … the long arms (leaf branches or fronds) of the coco-nut trees as they waved in the evening breeze. …
- … more luxuriant than on any of the others – the coconut trees generally grow separate, but here the …
- … and curved fronds the most shady arbours, and overhead the trees occupied by numbers of gannets, …
- … which [ f.168r p.43 ] smoothly hovers about among the trees and every now and then comes …
- … glittering the sun – whilst around its borders the coconut trees stand with their lofty trunks – …
- … Sea and be caught by the Sharks – and by climbing the Coco trees befalling and breaking their necks” …
- … sand– in which the coconut tree and a few sorts of timber trees specially adapted to that soil only …
- … forest and jungles raise rice, sugarcane, pepper, and spice trees – at the same time preserving the …
- … – there are no mountains or rivers *[24] – few trees are visible white sandy patches, scrubby …
- … Sound, a thick wood was discovered in which there were many trees of considerable size – and in the …
- … walking to and fro with him in the shade of the coconut trees. A Peripatetic Academical mode, which …
- … were also allowed the produce of a certain number of coa-nut trees – and might catch fish and turtle …
- … husk the fruit on the spot – where it has fallen from the trees – which accordingly they do. Firmly …
- … issued a law of that description (in the case of the coconut trees) but I find that I had given him …
- … avenue of most elegant and magnificent orange and apple trees (these being in fact of the real …
- … that the greater part of the sea fowl roost on branches ^of trees^ and that many rats make their …
- … believe that “rats make their nests on the top of coconut trees at ninety to a hundred feet above …
- … “Besides the palm there are upon the larger Islets other trees particularly a kind of Teak – and …
- … opposite extract thus “There are upon the largest Islets trees of other sorts – particularly a kind …
- … to rear by cutting [ f.217v p.138 ] down the coconut trees and raising maize *[31] ) to the …
- … conception – being completely overshadowed by coconut trees and as a natural consequence swarming …
- … mosquitos is a natural consequence of the shade of Coconut trees” may not be deemed admissible by …
- … a certain Voyageur hath reported that “they ran up the trees and barked at him.” *[36] It …
Mauro Galetti: profile of an ecologist
Summary
Mauro Galetti solved Darwin’s puzzle of the ‘bright seeds’. This is what he told us about becoming an ecologist.
Benjamin Renshaw
Summary
How much like a monkey is a person? Did our ancestors really swing from trees? Are we descended from apes? By the 1870s, questions like these were on the tip of everyone’s tongue, even though Darwin himself never posed the problem of human evolution in…
4.51 Frederick Holder 'Life and Work'
Summary
< Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American naturalist Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1891, sought to present him as ‘an example to the youth of all lands’ (p. v). Thus ‘our hero’ was shown to have…
Matches: 1 hits
- … cape can be seen a distant view of Down House amid its trees and gardens, with smoke rising from the …
Darwin’s earthquakes
Summary
Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
Darwin on childhood
Summary
On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood. Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…
Mendoza, Argentina
Summary
Geologising across the Andes
Matches: 1 hits
- … Andes and finds of fossil shells at 1200ft, and petrified trees. …
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
Matches: 1 hits
- … him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm trees, are made to look closely alike, …
4.3 Alfred Crowquill, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction One of the satires on Darwin’s Origin of Species was drawn by the prolific designer and illustrator Alfred Henry Forrester, who used the pseudonym ‘Alfred Crowquill’. His name appears prominently at bottom left of this print as…
Matches: 1 hits
- … in human clothes. Above them, snakes coil round the trees while more monkeys cavort in the branches. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the long neck of the giraffe for browsing on the branches of trees. * But he likewise believed in …
4.29 Richard Grant White, 'Fall of man'
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the same time as The Hornet pictured Darwin as ‘A Venerable Orang-Outang’, a novella by the American journalist and critic Richard Grant White offered a more scurrilous take on The Descent of Man. The Fall of Man: Or,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … are shown embracing amorously, fighting or cavorting in trees. One wonders whether Darwin viewed …
Darwin’s species notebooks: ‘I think . . .’
Summary
I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by the delightful number of new views, which have been coming in, thickly & steadily, on the classification & affinities & instincts of animals—bearing…
Matches: 1 hits
- … In the first of the notebooks Darwin drew three trees. During the past few decades, one of these has …
Review: The Origin of Species
Summary
- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Matches: 4 hits
- … vegetation springs up; but it has been observed that the trees now growing on the ancient Indian …
- … virgin forests. What a struggle between the several kinds of trees must here have gone on during …
- … to increase, and all feeding on each other or on the trees, or their seeds and seedlings, or on the …
- … course of centuries, the proportional numbers and kinds of trees now growing on the old Indian ruins …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
Summary
In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
The writing of "Origin"
Summary
From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … as a general rule, to be now forming. Where many large trees grow, we expect to find saplings. …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
Summary
Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … houses are like what children make in summer, with boughs of trees.— I do not think any spectacle …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … as a general rule, to be now forming. Where many large trees grow, we expect to find saplings. …
