To Daniel Oliver 28 March [1863]
Summary
Nectar secretion in Edwardsia. Could the stamen protect stigma?
Sends monstrous Primula with three pistils.
Had never heard of Robert Caspary, but what DO thinks is the placenta could be a whorl of pistils without stigmas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 43 (EH 88206026) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4063 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 March 1863]
Summary
Evidence of tropical floras continuous since Tertiary cannot fit CD’s position on intermittent cold periods.
Agrees with CD on reversion and latency.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 121–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4064 |
From Armand de Quatrefages [28 March] – 11 April 1863
Summary
Continues to support, in debates at the Société d’Anthropologie, the view that variability of animals and anatomical modifications are produced by environment. Wishes to use CD’s niata cattle example from Journal of researches [2d ed., pp. 145–6].
| Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Mar] – 11 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4082 |
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … to the peahen.” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 328 – 329. 7) “In order that woman should …
Eliza Burt Gamble
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Women have interpreted and applied evolutionary theory in arguments about women’s nature for over a century. Eliza Burt Gamble (1841-1920) was a pioneer in this endeavor. Gamble was an advocate of the Woman Movement, a mother, a writer, and a teacher from…
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- … Relation to Sex , Vol. II (London: John Murray, 1871), 328, 327, The Complete Work of Charles …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … Queen Victoria , 3 vols, vol. 2 (London: Seaby, 1987), p. 328, no. 3093. Attwood, Artistic …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 2: 3–28. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection.] 119: …
