From J. D. Hooker 2 [March] 1846
Summary
Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.
Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 [Mar] 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 63–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-958 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … It is a notable fact that of all the Irish Flora, only some 10 or 15 are peculiar to that …
- … the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological …
- … of other things instead & that their Floras are Mediterranean, but these other things are …
- … transition between that & the Nubian Abyssinian & Sengambia Flora, including the C. D. …
- … V. To that succeeds the Asiatic Flora xtending from W. Tropical …
- … Africa to Java at least ; & again to that the Cape Flora. It is not a very …
- … good remark that there is no relation between the Alpine Flora’s N. & S. of the …
- … is little relation between the Alpine Floras of any of the N. Atlantic Islds & those of …
- … the whole theory. Till we know the Atlas Flora it is dangerous to meddle with the Azores & …
- … Madeira. The Mt. Floras of widely separated spots are more similar than the low land …
- … but am inclined to look upon their Mt: Floras as of a much more recent nature than those …
- … I now remember well that my views of the Sicily flora are Lyell s & no doubt unconsciously …
- … the term Polymorphism as applied to a Flora or genus, as indicating one whose species are …
- … admirably defineable & distinct, take the Flora of the same area as any of those occupys’ …
From Edward Forbes [25 February 1846]
Summary
Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-956 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological …
- … the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological …
- … of this week to working & writing out the flora question, for I now feel strong enough to …
- … thus argued independantly 1 st on my flora & 2 d on the geological evidences of land in …
- … That as I had produced evidence of the other floras of our Islands (i.e. the Germanic—the …
- … over continuous land (the glacial or alpine flora I except for the present—as ice-carriage …
- … maintained that the introduction of that Irish flora was also effected by the same means. …
- … I held also that the character of this flora was more southern & more ancient than that of …
- … post-Miocene land, the region of what is usually called the Mediterranean flora. (Every …
- … where these Miocene islands &c bear a flora of that type) If this land existed it did not …
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1846
Summary
Goes on the assumption that each species has one origin, is immutable, and migrates.
Disagrees with Gaudichaud[-Beaupré] that volcanic island species are polymorphous.
Some mundane genera vary, others do not (Senecio vs Gnaphalium).
John Lindley’s doctrine of longevity of trees is amazing.
Edward Forbes’s health is better.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 60–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-947 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … David Douglas . An extract from Hooker’s Flora Antarctica ( J. D. Hooker 1844–7 , pp. …
- … Paris. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. Pt 1 …
- … Also Reeves has one or more numbers of my flora for you, I told him not to send them to …
- … not take his word for Volc. Insular floras being polymorphous. It is very easy saying …
- … the Frenchmen do not know what Continental Floras are, they only study Insular ones (Bory, …
- … Extended tracks of country with a large flora are full of polymorphous genera, even take …
- … wish to till at any rate this part of my flora is finished. When that is the case I should …
- … as far as his recollection of Insular Floras goes, but that it is in extended areas that …
- … chiefly occur. The Andes or rather Cordillera flora is very bad, from its great amount of …
- … the difference in trouble, between the Floras of Galapagos (or Auckland Isld) & of …
From J. D. Hooker [25 March 1846]
Summary
JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.
Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.
French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.
Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.
Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.
Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 188–91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-964 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining …
- … Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora. Botanical definition of "highness" and " …
- … to its distribution at p. 114 of my Flora I dared not mention that it was not known to be …
- … from an independent examination of the Flora of the N. Atlantic Isles & W. U. Kingdom …
- … as I did to you the W. African & Java Floras, as belonging to one & the same region. It …
- … From Java to Benin through India the Flora is of the same type. The latter differs only in …
- … though I would not print it) that the Benin Flora is more Javanese than the Peruvian is …
- … one caveat, that all we know of the Benin Flora is so much littoral that one’s judgement …
To J. D. Hooker [31 January 1846]
Summary
Disappointed with Webb and Berthelot.
Delighted to hear of more species from the Galapagos, surprised to hear W. Indian character of flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 Jan 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-945 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … hear of more species from the Galapagos, surprised to hear W. Indian character of flora. …
- … I begun, how far in proportional numbers the Flora is peculiar & how closely the different …
- … are your results as given in your Flora & letters to me! I see Berthelot quotes & concurs …
- … spot it is! I am surprised to hear of the W. Indian character of the Flora, though …
- … as this Flora is common to Panama, as you say, it makes it less surprising. It is an odd …
To J. D. Hooker [8 or 15 July 1846]
Summary
Regrets he cannot visit JDH.
Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.
Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 or 15] July 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-986 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … perplexing. Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica . …
- … 1985–. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. Pt 1 …
- … which discusses the relationships between floras of the southern hemisphere. This passage …
- … just finished your late numbers of the A. Flora & have been in truth delighted with them: …
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1846
Summary
Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.
Plant distribution and soil nature.
Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.
JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 69–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-998 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Hopkirk, Thomas. 1817. Flora anomoia. A general view of the anomalies in the …
- … to work a little at your chalk & clay floras but have no idea of what a summer may bring …
- … upwards of one half the whole British Flora. When such results of any comparisons between …
- … species of the N. & S. hemispheres that my Flora will shew, shall be worked out, I shall …
- … at them the other day & find his S.E Flora, numbered III. , to be altogether a fallacy: …
From J. D. Hooker [before 3 September 1846]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-994 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … pp. 67–8. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. Pt …
- … the only 2 men who have looked on British Flora with the eyes of philosophers. Watson in …
- … their source. Watson, like Forbes, argued that the British flora was made up from …
- … elements of other European floras which had, at one time or another, extended over …
To Robert FitzRoy 23 November [1846]
Summary
J. D. Hooker has described Capt. King’s Tierra del Fuego plants and CD’s Galapagos plants [in Flora Antarctica, pt 2 (1847)] which have extraordinary interest and novelty.
A malicious person has sent George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, a letter CD had written to J. L. Stokes, containing a derogatory statement likening Grey’s expedition to "a set of school boys".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 23 Nov [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 121a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1030 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 March 1846
Summary
Sends specimens of grasses from Ascension Island for CD to forward to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.
Includes list of indigenous flowering plants of Ascension Island.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1846 |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 123 Bl. 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-967F |
To J. D. Hooker [May 1846]
Summary
Interested in sterility of alpine plants in lowland and sterility of some plants in cultivation.
Curious to see Galapagos paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [May 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-971 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 September 1846]
Summary
Has nearly finished South America.
Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.
CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-996 |
To Charles Lyell [8 August 1846]
Summary
Comments on forthcoming edition [7th (1847)] of CL’s Principles. Mentions other books relevant to CL’s needs by Hooker, H. G. Bronn, Edward Forbes, and J. G. Kölreuter. Discusses his own books on volcanoes and the geology of S. America.
Mentions expected visit to Down by the Lyells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Aug 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-990 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 October 1846]
Summary
Hopes to start looking over his species notes in about a year.
Very much enjoyed Southampton [meeting of BAAS, 9–12 Sept].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1003 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1846]
Summary
Has read JDH’s paper ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 116–233] and thinks it the best essay on geographical distribution he has ever met with. Comments on the paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1031 |
To J. D. Hooker [16 April 1846]
Summary
CD’s suggestions for improving a paragraph by JDH.
On distribution of certain species and their variation relative to a central, typical form.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [16 Apr 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-974 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1985–. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. Pt 1 …
From Edward Forbes [7 August 1846]
Summary
Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Aug 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-989 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological …
To J. D. Hooker [13 March 1846]
Summary
Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.
Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-961 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological …
To J. D. Hooker 10 April [1846]
Summary
Is pleased JDH will attend to polymorphism and also with the botanical relation, as stated by JDH, between Africa and Java.
Would welcome any information on impregnation in the bud.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Apr [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-973 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological …
From J. D. Hooker [24 November 1846]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1032 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … one of my conclusions anent Insular Peculiar Floras very directly:—that they have wholly …
letter | (22) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Forbes, Edward | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
Forbes, Edward | (2) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
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
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: 28 hits
- … & 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
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Darwin returns the manuscript of Hooker’s On the Flora of Australia , which he has proofread. …
Dramatisation script
Summary
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
Summary
< 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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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 …