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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and …
- … of bloom, each of these projects would culminate in a major publication. Darwin’s botany was …
- … by his engagement to Sara Sedgwick, an American from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The …
- … He returned to his alma mater in November to hear a Latin oration composed specially for the …
- … the fertility of individual flowers and plants across a range of common species, such as the …
- … pleases me.’. Darwin dedicated the book to Gray, ‘as a small tribute of respect and affection’. He …
- … to you.’ Drawing his separate publications together into a larger whole enabled Darwin to advance …
- … measure: ‘it might then be highly beneficial to [a plant] that the same flower or the same …
- … I believe it is of value, it is not likely that more than a few hundred copies w d . be sold’. His …
- … waxy coating on the leaves and fruit was, like dimorphism, a well-known botanical characteristic …
- … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
- … gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 ). At Down House, Darwin and …
- … a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). Research on movement would continue …
- … of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s paper eventually appeared …
- … wrote to the editor, George Croom Robertson, on 27 April 1877 , ‘I hope that you will be so good …
- … had written to the editor Ernst Ludwig Krause on 30 June 1877 , ‘I have been much interested by …
- … the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and 25 October [1877] ). …
- … and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 ). Gifts of German and Dutch …
- … with wicked imprecations’ (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] ). …
- … need such determination himself against a new critic, Samuel Butler. A strong supporter of Darwin in …
- … up to the mark hereafter is another question’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 30 May [1877] ). In the …
- … by, or could contain, any earth worms’ ( letter from J. G. Joyce, 15 November 1877 ). Even at …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … and observations. Financial support for science was a recurring issue, as Darwin tried to secure a …
- … life and other bits of family history. On 1 January , a distant cousin, Charles Harrison Tindal, …
- … about the eagerness of the two learned divines to see a pig’s body opened is very amusing’, Darwin …
- … to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). Darwin had employed a genealogist, Joseph Lemuel Chester, to …
- … away in archives and registry offices, and produced a twenty-page history of the Darwin family …
- … obliged to meet some of the distant relations and conciliate a few whose ancestors had not featured …
- … in to the thick of all these cousins & think I must pay a round of visits.’ One cousin, Reginald …
- … the book, partly in order to address a publication by Samuel Butler, Evolution old and new , …
- … ). The final text of the Krause’s essay did not mention Butler’s book directly, but it did allude to …
- … in 1879 (before Evolution old and new was published). Butler wrote to Darwin on 2 January 1880 …
- … I much regret that I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). At the top of …
- … ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [28 January 1880] ). Butler had once been an enthusiastic …
- … of Darwin’s harsh critics, especially St George Mivart. Butler was unsatisfied with Darwin’s reply, …
- … [1880] ). ‘The world will only know … that you & Butler had a controversy in which he will have …
- … silence: ‘take no notice whatever … I am astounded at Butler—who I thought was a gentleman … Has …
- … the genus given by Gray in an article and textbook (A. Gray 1877 and A. Gray 1879, pp. 20–1). ‘I …
- … and letting them out of their respective bags ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [6, 13, or 20] March …
- … received more attention than the baby!’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 17 December 1880 , and …
- … biologist of our time’ ( letter from W. D. Roebuck to G. H. Darwin, 25 October 1880 ). The …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … by Cambridge University Press . Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth …
- … Darwin’s preoccupation with his own roots ran alongside a botanical interest in roots, as he and his …
- … to Francis Galton, 15 [June 1879] ). Even the prospect of a holiday in the Lake District in August …
- … Darwin, despite his many blessings, was finding old age ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry Johnson, …
- … old age, which creeps slily upon one, like moss upon a tree, and wrinkles one all over like a baked …
- … way round?’ At least the last letter of 1879 contained a warmer note and the promise of future …
- … old Darwin’s seventieth birthday on 12 February was a cause for international celebration. A …
- … but it was in Germany that Darwin was most fêted. A German bookkeeper and his wife sent birthday …
- … Virchow’s attempt to discredit evolutionary theory in 1877, assured him that his views were now …
- … Hermann Müller wrote on 12 February to wish Darwin a ‘long and serene evening of life’. This …
- … of corrupting his students by reading them an extract from a materialist work by Carus Sterne …
- … editor of the journal Kosmos , which had been founded in 1877 by Krause and others as a journal …
- … on Erasmus Darwin grabbed Darwin’s attention and provided a welcome break from his work on movement …
- … to publish an English translation of Krause’s essay as a short book. Delighted by Darwin’s proposal, …
- … Darwin’s life. Darwin, too, had started to consider adding a prologue, while his brother Erasmus …
- … evolution prior to Erasmus Darwin, pointing out that Samuel Butler’s recent book, Evolution, old …
- … and particularly the theory of natural selection in 1877) had previously told Krause, ‘He is a very …
- … tastefully and well, and with little fatigue’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 ). Darwin’s …
- … of laws he had received from Cambridge University in 1877. Emma Darwin recorded that Darwin found …
- … and his family to the Riviera for the summer ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 July 1879 ). Allen, who …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … in man and animals , published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, …
- … scientific correspondents and, in 1867, by preparing a printed questionnaire.[3] He solicited …
- … his first-born—his ‘Little Prince’ or ‘animalcule of a son’[7] —to such a degree that on occasion he …
- … 1844, Henrietta Emma was one year old, and there are a few entries relating to her. However, at this …
- … diaphragm, so as to allow gas to escape from stomach.— A person trying to liberate air from stomach …
- … his eyebrows are very little prominent, & with scarcely a vestige of down,—therefore if frowning …
- … At his 9 th day however he appeared to follow a candle with his eyes.— In crying, frowns …
- … old, smiled, but certainly not from pleasure, but merely a chance movement of muscles, without a …
- … of eye during sucking change. into vacancy & then into a swimming expression, with half closed …
- … I have no doubt this rolling of the eyes is connected with a tendency for them to turn upwards & …
- … the same time Henrietta smiled at 3 weeks & Mrs Locke says a fortnight[15] I have …
- … mother. & mine; I think was once attracted by noise towards a certain point. — Has no definite …
- … itself.— Henrietta also just at the same period or a few days earlier— Nov. 8[16] When …
- … argues that his smiles were from seeing her face, because a tassel dangling did not make him smile— …
- … he wanted to suck. Annie at 2 months & four days had a very broad sweet smile & a …
- … eyes have brightened when smiling.— often accompanied by a little noise, approaching to a laugh.— …
- … before his eyes.[18] Two days ago it appeared to me from a change made in the little noises he was …
- … not directed to any particular object, but express merely a feeling of pleasure. Three days ago when …
- … other child set him crying again He does not easily catch a person’s eye & is not easily …
- … down than it used to be giving an expression of misery. A frown gives the first notice that he is …
- … pencil) by Emma Darwin must have been added on 19 January 1877, when Francis Darwin’s son Bernard …
- … Howard Darwin, born 1845. [65] Joseph Parslow, butler at Down House. [66] The text on …
