From Oswald Heer 28 September 1875
Summary
Comments on Insectivorous plants.
Describes his own work on fossil flora of Eastern Siberia.
Discusses genus Ginkgo.
| Author: | Oswald Heer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10175 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … plants . Describes his own work on fossil flora of Eastern Siberia. Discusses genus …
- … Heer, Oswald. 1876. Beiträge zur Jura-Flora Ostsibiriens und des Amurlandes. [Read 23 …
- … St. -Pétersbourg 7th ser. 22: 1–122. [Heer 1868–83 ( Flora fossilis arctica ), vol. 4. ] …
- … Heer, Oswald. 1878. Primitiae florae fossilis Sachalinensis. …
- … Miocene Flora der Insel Sachalin. Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St. - …
- … Monaten mit der Untersuchung der Jura=Flora Ostsibiriens u. des Amurlandes beschäftigt, …
- … die Materialien geliefert hat. Es besteht die Flora aus zahlreichen Farn, aus Cycadeen u. …
- … months I was busy investigating the Jurassic flora of East Siberia & the Amur country, for …
- … Petersburg supplied me with materials. The flora consists of numerous ferns, Cycadeae & …
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1845]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.
"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."
Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-927 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica . CD is delighted with it. " …
- … cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful." Questions …
- … JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; …
- … comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand. …
- … 1841–9. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844– 7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. Pt …
- … I have just got as far as Lycopodium in your Flora & in truth cannot say enough how much I …
- … at the similarity of the Antarctic Floras: it is wonderful. — I hope you will tabulate all …
- … surprised me more, than the absence of Alpine floras in the S. islands: it strikes me as …
- … T. del Fuego had possessed a large alpine flora! — I sh d . much like to know whether the …
- … appearance of places & yet I presume the Flora of the former is far more scanty than of …
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation …
- … 15–30. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1859. On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and …
- … distribution; being an introductory essay to the flora of Tasmania. London: Lovell Reeve. …
- … Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1872–97. The flora of British India. Assisted by various botanists. …
- … the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted …
- … towards the explanation of the N. Zeald Flora & Australian, but marred it by assuming a …
- … preexistent S.W. Australian Flora— I am sure …
- … that the Australian Flora is very modern in the main; & that the S.W. peculiarities are …
- … away at the Garden, the Bot. Mag & Indian Flora, which I cannot afford to give up, & Gen. …
- … rich in ‘purely Australian types’ of flora, and concluded that it was a ‘remnant of the …
- … continent in which the peculiar Australian flora was principally developed’ (see Wallace …
- … 463–4). Hooker had written an essay on the flora of Australia and Tasmania ( J. D. Hooker …
- … many years in the multi-volume works The flora of British India ( J. D. Hooker 1872–97 ) …
From Daniel Oliver 25 September 1860
Summary
His results with pure gum on Drosera spathulata entirely support CD’s opinion. Other observations on insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 1–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2927 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … 1–47. Bromfield, William Arnold. 1856. Flora Vectensis: being a systematic description of …
- … 1824]). Edward Frederick Kelaart published a flora of Gibraltar in 1846 ( Kelaart 1846 ). …
- … Giles Munby lived in Algeria and published a flora of the native plants of the country in …
- … Wentworth Chapman was the author of a flora of the southern states of America ( Chapman …
- … Pamplin. Chapman, Alvan Wentworth. 1860. Flora of the Southern United States … arranged …
- … York. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1855–60. Flora Tasmaniæ. Pt 3 of The botany of the Antarctic …
- … London. Kelaart, Edward Frederick. 1846. Flora Calpensis. Contributions to the botany and …
- … a fly was as follows I quite look to working up one or two spinous Floras I think of, …
- … as one, the Flora (Florula! ) of Aden upon wh. D r . Anderson is just now engaged …
- … to the Linn: Journal It is a very spiny Flora. Then Delile, for Egypt. perhaps Kelaart, …
- … important. To contrast I would take our own Flora,—that of Arctic circle (easy)—upon wh. D …
- … Drosera see a footnote in D r . Bromfield’s ’ Flora Vectensis ‘ p. 56—“The glands x x x x …
To J. S. Henslow [10 November 1839]
Summary
Urges JSH to describe Galapagos species in a paper on the flora of the islands.
Has been interested in geographical distribution and would be interested to have a paper by JSH on the general character of flora of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.
"I keep on steadily collecting every sort of fact which may throw light on the origin & variation of species."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [10 Nov 1839] |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 7127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-543 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Endlicher, Stephan Ladislaus. 1833. Prodromus florae Norfolkicae sive catalogus stirpium …
- … describe Galapagos species in a paper on the flora of the islands. Has been interested in …
- … paper by JSH on the general character of flora of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. "I keep …
- … Do think once again of making one paper on the Flora of these islands—like Roxburgh on St. …
- … journals, the general character of the Flora never will be known, & foreigners, at least, …
- … to have a paper at some time from you on the general character of the Flora of T. del. …
- … Fuego & especially of the Alpine Flora
〈 .〉 The one point of land, which projects so far … - … has published any general account of the Flora of Patagonia,—small as my collection is,—it …
- … gives I am sure a very fair notion of the Flora—& the climate being so peculiar, I cannot …
- … more remarkable than the contrasts of its Flora with that of Tierra del Fuego, countries …
Heer, Oswald. 1868–83. Flora fossilis arctica. Die fossile flora der Polarländer. 7 vols. Zurich: J. Wurster & Comp.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1847. Floræ Tasmaniæ Spicilegium; or contributions towards a flora of Van Diemen’s Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 106–25, 265–86, 461–79.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1859. On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the flora of Tasmania. London: Lovell Reeve.
Hooker, William Jackson and Arnott, George Arnott Walker. 1850. The British flora: comprising the phænogamous or flowering plants, and the ferns. 6th ed. of Hooker, William Jackson, The British flora. London, 1830. London.
Hudson, William. 1798. Flora Anglica. 3d ed. London.
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- … Hudson, William. 1798. Flora Anglica. 3d ed. London. 7 …
Maximovicz, Karl Ivanovich. 1859. Primitiae florae amurensis. Versuch einer Flora des Amurlandes. Mémoires Présentés à l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg par divers savants et lus dans ses Assemblées\ 9: 1–504.
Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1784. Flora Japonica. Leipzig.
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- … Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1784. Flora Japonica. Leipzig. 6 …
Wahlenberg, Göran. 1824–6. Flora Suecica. 2 pts. Upsala.
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- … Wahlenberg, Göran. 1824–6. Flora Suecica. 2 pts. Upsala. 6 …
Heer, Oswald. 1878. Primitiae florae fossilis Sachalinensis. Miocene Flora der Insel Sachalin. Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 25: 1–61.
Miquel, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm. 1855–60. Flora van Nederlandsch Indië. (Flora Indiae Batavae.) 3 vols. in 4 and Supplement. Amsterdam and Utrecht: C. G. van der Post. Utrecht: C. van der Post.
Brewer, J. A. (1818–86)
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- … of the Holmesdale Natural History Club. Published New flora of the neighbourhood of …
- … Reigate, Surrey (1856) and Flora of Surrey (1863). R. Desmond 1994 . Bibliography Desmond, …
- … Club plants Australia London Holmesdale Reigate Surrey New flora of the neighbourhood …
- … of Reigate, Surrey Flora of Surrey Postmaster botanist …
From J. D. Hooker [before 7 March 1855]
Summary
CD’s tabulation of colonists curious but explicable.
Working on Tasmanian flora; contemplating general essay on Australian distribution: Tasmania and Australia same alpine species; Swan River flora very peculiar and quite distinct from New South Wales.
Trying to establish new journal at Linnean.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 7 Mar 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 216–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1638 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … but explicable. Working on Tasmanian flora; contemplating general essay on Australian …
- … Australia same alpine species; Swan River flora very peculiar and quite distinct from New …
- … by dispersal or migration. J. D. Hooker 1855–60 . The flora of Australia is discussed …
- … in the introductory essay of Flora Tasmaniæ ( J. D. Hooker 1855–60 ). …
- … Nancy. 1848–9. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1855–60. Flora Tasmaniæ. Pt 3 of The botany of the …
- … expedition, had been working with him on Flora Indica (J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855). …
- … ready. I am going on with the Tasmanian Flora & find the subject very interesting— some of …
- … the Geog. distrib of the whole Australian Flora— this is ambitious, but it is really the …
- … most extraordinary thing in the world. — The Flora of Swan river i.e. of extratrop S.W. …
To Axel Blytt 28 March 1876
Summary
Thanks AB for his paper on the Norwegian flora ["Forsög til en Theori om Invandringen af Norges Flora", Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. 21 (1876): 279–362]. Appears to CD to be the most important contribution towards understanding the present distribution of plants since Edward Forbes’s essay on the effects of the glacial period ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. Engl. & Wales 1 (1846): 336–432].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Axel Gudbrand (Axel) Blytt |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10433 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Thanks AB for his paper on the Norwegian flora ["Forsög til en Theori …
- … om Invandringen af Norges Flora", Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. 21 (1876): 279–362]. Appears to …
- … the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological …
- … work on “The Immigration of the Norwegian Flora”, which has interested me in the highest …
- … Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods ( …
- … Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods. …
- … the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological …
To J. D. Hooker 2 December 1868
Summary
Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.
No work exists on various biological points in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 102–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6487 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea …
- … to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples …
- … George. 1865b. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the flowering plants and …
- … scheme, & if you make only a beginning on a Flora, which shall serve as an index to all …
- … it you will have started a new era in the Floras of various countries. I can well believe …
- … that he was going to write a ‘British Flora’ adapted to students’ purposes and containing …
- … George Bentham’s Handbook of the British flora ( Bentham 1865 ), see the letter from J. …
- … advanced students, if they found in their Flora a line or two on various curious points, …
- … y r idea; it is a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to …
- … ought to be introduced into a Utopian Flora,—on the quickness of the germination of the …
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 |
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- … 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’ …
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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
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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
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
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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
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 …
