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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

Summary

Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863  greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

Matches: 26 hits

  • purposes’ (see  Correspondence  vol10, letter to JD. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and
  • book (Down House MS) and  Correspondence  vol5, letter to JD. Hooker, 19 April [1855] ). …
  • the tropical plants of his friend and neighbour George Henry Turnbull, and he relied again on
  • its sensitivity to touch (see  Correspondence  vol10, letter to JD. Hooker, 12 [December
  • do so by John Horwood, the gardener of his neighbour George Turnbull; Horwood had assisted him in
  • … (Down House MS)). When it was completed, Darwin told Turnbull that without Horwoods aid he would
  • he had had, he wouldprobably have made a mess of it’ (letter to GH. Turnbull, [16? February
  • addingI shall keep to curious & experimental plants’ (letter to JD. Hooker, 13 January
  • of Westerham, with whom he had dealt over many years. In his letter to Hooker, Darwin mentioned that
  • of the plants you want before going to Nurserymen’ (letter from JD. Hooker, [15 January 1863] ) …
  • I shall avoid[,] of course I must not have from Kew’ (letter to JD. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ) …
  • him: ‘I long to stock it, just like a school-boy’ (letter to JDHooker, 15 February [1863] ). …
  • which I wished for, but which I did not like to ask for’ (letter to JD. Hooker, [21 February
  • in a particular mixture of moss, peat, and charcoal (see the letter from Henrietta Emma Darwin to
  • of his plants, proffering further advice on cultivation (see letter from JD. Hooker, [6 March
  • sh d . not see such transcendent beauty in each leaf’ (letter to JD. Hooker, 24[–5] February
  • to envision the tropics (see  Correspondence  vol1, letter to Caroline Darwin, [28 April 1831] …
  • of my old friends again’ ( Correspondence  vol1, letter to Catherine Darwin, MayJune [1832] …
  • of the tropics ( Correspondence  vol3, letter to Charles Lyell, 8 October [1845] ). …
  • to identify the families to which they belonged. In his letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] , he
  • for experiments, which seem to me really worth trial’ (letter to JD. Hooker, 21 February [1863] …
  • … [that is, cool hothouse]’ ( Correspondence  vol12, letter to JD. Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864
  • Tait that he had4 houses of different temperatures’ (letter to WC. Tait, 12 and 16 March [1869
  • to the greenhouses ( Correspondence  vol12, letter to JD. Hooker, [25 January 1864] ). …
  • outon that list the plants he could not supply (see letter from JD. Hooker, [16 February 1863] …
  • a single heading in the list, such asMelastomaceæ (Sin[g]apore)’ orCatasetum species?’. However, …

Books on the Beagle

Summary

The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

Matches: 19 hits

  • … Captain FitzRoy in the  Narrative  (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
  • … . . . There will be  plenty  of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
  • … the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
  • … on board the  Beagle §  —  mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
  • … Naturelle  3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
  • … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
  • … a report of the proceedings . .  . Cambridge, 1833.  (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
  • … of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
  • … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
  • … residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
  • … 33: 254). § Euclid.  Elements of geometry.  (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
  • … The philosophy of zoology . . .  2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
  • … to the mountain barometer.  2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
  • … de l’ordre des polypiers.  Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
  • … Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November …
  • … of England.  Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the  South African Christian …
  • … ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
  • … and La Plata . . .  2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
  • … John.  Paradise lost.  ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …