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Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
- … The quantity of his correspondence increased dramatically in 1868; the increase was due largely to …
- … and his immediate circle of friends and relations. In July 1868 Darwin was still anticipating that …
- … and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ). My book is horribly …
- … as early as 1865, the two-volume work appeared in January 1868. A final delay caused by the indexing …
- … look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). Darwin sympathised, replying on …
- … fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). But such worries were laid to …
- … was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from …
- … not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ). Wallace commiserated: ‘I am …
- … to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] ). The review was in fact by John …
- … a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). I am bothered with …
- … Yorkshire, wrote of the colour of duck claws on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the …
- … Commons than any assembly in the world’ (from ?, 6 April 1868). On 21 May , Darwin complained to …
- … inner circle of expert naturalists. The Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle described on 6 July …
- … breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous zeal’, and offered …
- … changes in the canary (letters from J. J. Weir, [26] March 1868 and 3 June 1868 ). ‘It was …
- … clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). Sexual selection …
- … ratios was scanty, and he spent much of the first half of 1868 collecting facts on this question, …
- … may be gained’ ( letter to H. T. Stainton, 21 February [1868] ). From the beginning, Darwin had …
- … males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). Yet a number of Darwin’s …
- … the American entomologist Benjamin Dann Walsh on 25 March 1868 . Wallace maintained that males …
- … entomologists ( letter from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 , and letter from Robert MacLachlan, …
- … in attracting females. J. J. Weir reported on 14 April 1868 that a bullfinch had piped a German …
- … ( letter from Ernest Faivre, 7 April 1868 ). Armand de Quatrefages, who had also criticised Darwin …
- … destined to renew the natural sciences entirely.’ Gaston de Saporta similarly hoped that his own …
- … and regard you as their leader’ ( letter from Gaston de Saporta, 6 September 1868 ). …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … to produce capsules’ ( To Fritz Müller, 30 January [1868] ). Müller, in turn, sent seeds from his …
- … produced by the former ( From Robert Caspary, 18 February 1868 ). Darwin eagerly requested seed …
- … their power of growth’ ( To Robert Caspary, 25 February [1868] ). By this time he had already …
- … (Variation 2: 128-9), which was published on 30 January 1868. In April 1868, Darwin informed …
- … quite intelligible to me’ ( To George Bentham, 22 April 1868 ). A month later, he had another set …
- … taken from the same plant!’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 21 May [1868] ) Pollen tubes, or rapidly elongating …
- … he told Müller ( To Fritz Müller, 28 November 1868 ). In March 1869, Müller reported results of …
- … work’ ( From Hermann Müller, 6 December 1876 ). Alphonse de Candolle noted the importance of …
- … perseverance over such a long series of experiments ( From Alphonse de Candolle 16 December 1876 …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … mammoth and cave bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although …
- … ( Origin , p. 484). Owen preferred Jean Baptiste de Lamarck’s explanation of the origin of life: …
- … Appendix III), and of the Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel ( see letter from La Société …
- … ), but he was happy that the respected Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle sent information on the …
- … in France. Candolle had sent his monograph on oaks (A. de Candolle 1862b), which included a …
- … what Darwin called ‘prudent reservations’ ( letters to Alphonse de Candolle, 14 January [1863] …
- … Primula crosses, the results of which were published in 1868 ( see letter to John Scott, 25 and …
- … months. However, the two-volume work was not published until 1868. Roping in the family …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … in Europe—he told the Swiss zoologist, Edouard Claparède that they were ‘more unpopular in France …
- … some rapidity to adopt them’ ( letter to Edouard Claparède, [ c. 16 April 1862] )—he continued …
- … not ‘known more of Natural History’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). She had …
- … a different translator ( see letter from Edouard Claparède, 6 September 1862 ). In Germany, …
- … work was the widely respected Swiss botanical taxonomist, Alphonse de Candolle, from whom he …
- … stopped short of endorsing natural selection ( letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 13 June 1862 ). …
- … at the Museum of Practical Geology in May. As he told Armand de Quatrefages, the abuse commonly …
- … probably descended from one parent’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … expressed in the pangenesis hypothesis, first published in 1868 ( Variation 2: 357–404). Others …
- … from T. H. Farrer, 31 December 1876 ). The Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle also praised Darwin …
- … physiology possessed anything as satisfying ( letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 16 December 1876 ) …
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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- … 1] Books to be Read 3 “Traité de la Folie des Animaux de ses Rapports avec …
- … 923) 7 read Decandolle Philosophie [A. P. de Candolle 1821] Decandolle on …
- … [W. Lawrence 1819] read Bory S t Vincent [Bory de Saint-Vincent 1804] Vol 3. p 164 on …
- … Philosophie d’Hist. Nat. [Virey 1835] read Marcel de Serres Cavernes d’Ossements 7 th Ed. …
- … Hist. genérale et Particulière des Anomalies de l’organization des hommes & des Animaux by Isid. …
- … [Buffon 1834–74]. Much on Geograph. Distrib. Fries de Plantarum prœsentum crypt. transitu at …
- … Temminck has written Coup d’œil sur la Fauna des iles de la Sonde et Japon [Temminck 1833].— —Have …
- … and [J. Rennie] ed. 1833] read 19 : French [? Annales de la Société Impériale d' …
- … Cumberland & Durham [Winch 1819] M. Girou de Buzareingues on generation. 1828 [Girou de …
- … Natural Hist Soc of Mauritius. published? [ Procés-Verbaux de la Société d'Histoire …
- … has chapter on Sensitive Plants in his Physiology [A. P. de Candolle 1832] Col. le Couteur …
- … [Boisduval 1833]: Suite— Decandolle on Botany [A. de Candolle 1835]: Lacordaire Introduction …
- … recommended by Hooker . [A. P. de Candolle 1839–40] …
- … Leroy Paris 1802 [Leroy 1802]. (worth reading) read Alphonse Decandolle in his “Introduction …
- … 1851]. Packard. A Guide to the Study of Insects 1868. U. States [Packard 1868–9] (an …
- … Decandoelle. Geograph. Bot. Dict. des Sci. Nat. [A. P. de Candolle 1820] marked 12. Watertons …
- … eds.] *119: 20v. Boisduval de Chauffour, Jean Alphonse. 1833. Faune entomologique …
- … Campbell . 2 vols. London. [Other eds.] 119: 7a Candolle, Alphonse de. 1835. …
- … 2 vols. London. 119: 5a Packard, Alpheus Spring. 1868–9. Guide to the study of …
Dramatisation script
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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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- … fade. GRAY PAYS DARWIN A VISIT AT DOWN: 1868 In which Gray announces his …
- … apart theologically. GRAY: 175 Summer. 1868. The gist of my present note is to …
- … 189 [Jane Gray. Letter to her sister. Fall, 1868.] Mr Darwin [is].. fascinating… [he has] the …
- … THE OLDER ONE GETS THE MORE THERE IS TO DO: 1868-1876 In which the friends consider the …
- … C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 3 JULY 1860 98 A GRAY TO ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE, 16 FEB 1863 …
- … TO A GRAY, 17 FEBRUARY 1861 113 A GRAY TO DE CANDOLLE, 26 APRIL 1861 114 A …
- … TO A GRAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 1861 118 A GRAY TO DE CANDOLLE, 26 APRIL 1861 119 …
- … TO C DARWIN, 29 DECEMBER 1861 123 A GRAY TO DE CANDOLLE, 16 DEC 1861 124 A …
- … 24 JULY 1865 175 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH, 22 JUNE 1868 176 TO A GRAY 15 AUGUST …
- … TO A GRAY 15 APRIL 1867 180 TO A GRAY 8 MAY 1868 181 FROM A GRAY 25 MAY …
- … TIME 189 JANE LORING GRAY, LETTER TO HER SISTER, 1868 or 1869 190 C DARWIN …
- … A GRAY 9 AUGUST 1876 194 FROM A GRAY 25 MAY 1868 195 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … and plants under domestication , eventually published in 1868, became too strenuous. His paper, ‘On …
- … his laboratory in the botanical institute at Würzburg in 1868. His Lehrbuch der Botanik …
- … close friends, Darwin was more circumspect; he told Gaston de Saporta, ‘ I am at present working …
- … when there were conflicts. After reading a paper by Hugo de Vries in which the author remarked that …
- … could have been so much at odds ( letter to Hugo de Vries 13 February 1879 ). He was reassured by …
- … also mentioned he wanted to visit the laboratory of Anton de Bary in Strasbourg on his way home. …
- … in the Lake District, Darwin received a long letter from De Vries detailing his latest research on …
- … & refer to your evidence before the Spring ’. Luckily, De Vries published two papers in 1879 …
- … in Southampton. Just before he left, he received a copy of Alphonse de Candolle’s Phytographie …
