From J. V. Carus 22 March 1877
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A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10909 |
To Agricultural Gazette 22 March 1877
Summary
Evidence for inheritance of constitutional diseases like scrofula so good that it seems rash to breed tainted animal.
Experiments given in Cross and self-fertilisation show that evil of inbreeding follows from near relations possessing closely similar constitution.
Size and vigour increased by breeding plants and animals from ancestors that lived some generations under different conditions of life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Agricultural Gazette |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Agricultural Gazette, 2 April 1877, pp. 324–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10910 |
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4.45 'Puck' cartoon 2
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< Back to Introduction In Reason Against Unreason, a cartoon published shortly before Darwin’s death, the American humorous magazine Puck had celebrated him as the embodiment of ‘Reason’. Now, a month after his death, an imaginative drawing in the…
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Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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- … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955), p. 176, no. 322, plaster cast of Boehm’s model. Entry …
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … examples Darwin refers to in the book ( Variation 2d, 2: 322 n. 24). By this stage Lawson Tait …
