To John Tyndall 8 September 1870
Summary
CD finds JT’s discourse "grand and most interesting" [On the scientific use of the imagination (1870)]. Flattered by what JT says about him.
He is "a rash man to say a good word for Pangenesis for it has hardly a friend among naturalists".
CD is much struck with what JT says about "pondering" and delighted by his "as if" argument.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 8 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | The Michael Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, reference RI MS JT/2/10/458, spine title: Journal V111A 1858–71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7319 |
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- … marked in the tropics than in our temperate regions— On one day when the beautiful pale …
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1855]
Summary
Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.
Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1781 |
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- … less ‘social’ or abundant than those of temperate regions. CD commented: ‘Ask Hooker about …
To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 8 March 1856
Summary
Hopes GHKT will publish on variations in plant species at different elevations. Asks about variations among plants on heights of Ceylon.
Promises to publish on the species question.
Asks for pigeons’ skins from India or Ceylon, and for ducks’ skeletons. Mentions help promised by E. F. Kelaart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.125) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1837 |
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- … On the climate and vegetation of the temperate and cold regions of East Nepal and the …
From Albert Günther 1 October 1871
Summary
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Is hard at work examining Ceratodus.
Encloses discussion of Mus species with functionally prehensile tails.
Encloses argument against freshwater fish entering the sea.
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 246; DAR 205.3: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7980 |
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- … they were found in fresh waters of the temperate zone of the southern hemisphere. Günther …
To S. H. Vines 22 November 1881
Summary
Rows of cells with granular matter following treatment with carbonate of ammonia also found in white and young rootlets of common zonal Pelargonium. Differs slightly from Euphorbia in that 2, 3, 4, or 5 rows often adjoin. CD wrong in supposing that these rows of cells were connected with lacticiferous ducts ("milk-tubes"). Root hairs arise exclusively from rows of cells without brownish granular matter. It appears that certain rows of cells with hairs are absorbent and store matter of some kind. This is a new view of the structure and function of rootlets. Francis Darwin will soon set up the salt solution to make the experiment SHV recommends.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sydney Howard Vines |
Date: | 22 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13505A |
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- … is a genus of perennials indigenous to temperate and tropical regions; P. zonale is native …
To Asa Gray 11 November [1859]
Summary
Sends copy of Origin for comments.
Does not feel AG’s views of migration after the last glaciation explain distribution in U. S. as well as CD’s view of migration prior to glaciation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2520 |
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- … America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 …
To Adolf von Morlot 28 November [1844]
Summary
Mentions his Plutonic view of earth history.
Cites Lyell’s opinions on loess.
CD doubts contemporaneousness of extinct great animals with ice period.
Cites applicability of Forbes’s theory of glacier structure to structure of volcanic obsidian.
CD is falling astern in the geological race for knowledge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot) |
Date: | 28 Nov [1844] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-794 |
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- … have expressed his belief in a former temperate climate in India more strongly in private …
From F. B. Zincke 1 November 1881
Summary
Has found prehistoric tools in his orchard that he believes have been buried by the action of earthworms.
Author: | Foster Barham Zincke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13448 |
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- … adapted survivals of forms which a temperate epoch had developed; & which have survived …
From A. R. Wallace 11 October 1880
Summary
Indicates portions of Island life that will interest CD. Explanation of the geological climate is the foundation stone of the book.
Hooker’s approval of the theory of Australian and New Zealand floras.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12752 |
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- … Australian plants in the New Zealand flora. Temperate Australian species from the western …
From H. C. Watson 14 December [1857]
Summary
Will shortly return CD’s list of varieties of British plants. Discusses the situations in which different varieties of species are often found and the ranges of varieties relative to those of the species.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2183 |
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- … there are boreal or arctic forms of temperate species. ) Alpine forms with us are usually …
From J. D. Hooker [27 August 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4276 |
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- … On the climate and vegetation of the temperate and cold regions of East Nepal and the …
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1879
Summary
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 134–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12336 |
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- … notion that the E Asiatic & W. European temperate & subtropical Floras are very distinct, …
From J. D. Hooker 9 June 1862
Summary
Oliver has written able paper on dimorphism for Natural History Review [n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
CD’s account of Viola is novel and interesting.
Has finished Cameroon mountain plants.
Jury work at exhibition.
Domestic problems – wife is ill, no cook, etc.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 40–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3593 |
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- … gross results? as to the proportions &c of temperate forms. I am daily at Exhibition Jury …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [December 1859]
Summary
High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of immutable creation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 33, 30a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2606 |
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- … America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 …
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 April [1862]
Summary
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4097 |
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- … America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 …
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1859]
Summary
CD has written to Asa Gray criticising J. D. Dana’s arguments for a warm period subsequent to glacial period.
Remembers it is Alphonse de Candolle who states that many species are not true species.
Did Huxley write the excellent review in the Times?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2610 |
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- … America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 …
To Charles Lyell 29 [December 1859]
Summary
Encloses letter concerning Edward Blyth’s application for a position with the China expedition.
Mentions reviews of the Origin. Guesses that Huxley wrote the Times review.
Alludes to discussion of relations between fossil and modern types [in Principles of geology 3: 144].
Discusses destruction of tropical forms in the glacial period.
Mentions letter from Dana concerning Dana’s illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2612 |
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- … of Himalaya, in which truly Tropical & Temperate forms now live mingled together. This …
To Asa Gray 22 October 1872
Summary
Spiralling of tendrils.
Has worked hard on Drosera.
Is interested in tracing the "nerves" of Dionaea which follow the vascular bundles. Finds he can paralyse half of the leaf by pricking it at a certain point.
Wishes AG to carry out two experiments on D. filiformis.
Has received AG’s Dubuque address [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 4 (1872): 282–98].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8568 |
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- … D. Hooker, 10 October [1872] )). Many temperate species of Drosera (sundew) die back in …
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 |
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- … identical & representative inhabiting N. temperate & Antarctic regions. I hope you get …
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
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.
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- … on the mountains of Abyssinia, and likewise to those of temperate Europe. This is one of the most …
- … than at present in various parts of the tropics, where temperate forms apparently have crossed; but …
- … So again, on the island of Fernando Po, Mr. Mann found temperate European forms first beginning to …
- … of the torrid zone harmoniously blended with those of the temperate. So that under certain …
- … have co-existed for an indefinitely long period mingled with temperate forms. At one time …
- … cannot look to the peninsula of India for such a refuge, as temperate forms have reached nearly all …
- … of Java we see European forms, and on the heights of Borneo temperate Australian productions. If we …
- … continent to its southern extremity; but we now know that temperate forms have likewise travelled …
- … are on the mountains of Brazil a few southern and northern temperate and some Andean forms, which it …
- … number of forms in Australia, which are related to European temperate forms, but which differ so …
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … Moncur, who also worked on the north and south blocks of the Temperate House at Kew. The Palm House …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … lumbago– fundament–rash. Always been temperate– now wine comforts me much– could …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … would migrate towards the equator during an ice age and that temperate species would survive at …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … of similar species in both the northern and southern temperate zones. In the first edition of …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … observed distributions, such as the presence of the same temperate species on distant mountains, and …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[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…
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- … Settlement – a thoroughly convict colony – a healthy temperate climate – far removed from civilized …