From Daniel Oliver [15–16 October 1860]
Summary
Extracts from botanical literature dealing with Dionaea, intercrossing, and sensitivity. [Bot. Ztg. (1833): 96; Thomas Nuttall, Genera of N. American plants (1818)].
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15–16 Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2623 |
To John Medows Rodwell 15 October [1860]
Summary
Comments on Rodwell’s discussion of the “struggle for life” with reference to languages and G. H. Lewes’s article in the Cornhill Magazine (Lewes 1860, pp. 445–7). Comments on Rodwell’s account of horses affected by mildewed pasturage, and asks for more information about his white cat.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Medows Rodwell |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2950F |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Rodwell, J. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Rodwell, J. M. | (1) |
Barnacles
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
