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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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  • … these experimental results. He told the Italian botanist Federico Delpino, ‘Next summer or autumn I …
  • … plants during several successive generations’ ( To Federico Delpino, 22 November 1871 ). Delpino …
  • … importance for agriculture and horticulture ( From Federico Delpino, 5 December 1871 ). When …
  • … I finish with this & get it published’ ( To Asa Gray, 11 March [1873] ). In April 1873, …
  • … turn to the vegetable kingdom’ In June 1873, Delpino informed Darwin that gardeners in …
  • … yet are sometimes visited by Bees’, he told Delpino ( To Federico Delpino, 25 June [1873] ). …
  • … as he wanted to make corrections for a new edition. On 11 December, Darwin sent corrected sheets to …
  • … repaged & the index a little altered’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). These changes …

List of correspondents

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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent.    "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

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  • … (1) Athenæum (11) Atkin, J. R. (1) …
  • … (3) Bosquet, J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John …
  • … (2) Breitenbach, Wilhelm (11) Brent, B. P. …
  • … (2) Bunbury, C. J. F. (11) Bunbury, F. J. …
  • … (1) Caspary, Robert (11) Cassell Petter & …
  • … (40) Crick, W. D. (11) Crier, John …
  • … (1) Crocker, C. W. (11) Crocq, Jean …
  • … Dell’Oro, Isidoro (1) Delpino, Federico (26) …
  • … (1) Dobell, H. B. (11) Dobson, G. E. …
  • … (7) Farrar, F. W. (11) Farrer, T. H. …
  • … (280) Gray, G. R. (11) Gray, J. E. …
  • … (1) Harvey, W. H. (11) Harward, John …
  • … (289) Hyatt, Alpheus (11) Hyndman, G. C. …
  • … (1) Lewes, G. H. (11) Lewin, Friend …
  • … (3) Lynch, R. I. (11) Lónyay, Menyhért …
  • … (1) Morgan, L. H. (11) Morley, John …
  • … (3) Shaw, James (11) Shaw, Robert (3 …
  • … (4) Sowerby, G. B. (11) Sowerby, G. B., Jr …
  • … (1) Strickland, H. E. (11) Struthers, John …
  • … (2) Wedgwood, Elizabeth (11) Wedgwood, Emma …

Race, Civilization, and Progress

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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…

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  • … man in his most "primitive wildness" ( letter to Henslow, 11 April 1833 ). They …
  • … Letter 204 : Darwin to Henslow, J. S., 11 April 1833 "The Fuegians are in a more …
  • … scientific supporters, including Lyell, the Italian botanist Federico Delpino and the American …
  • … 98). Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October [1859] "the …
  • … the forces & laws of Nature." Letter 6866 : From Federico Delpino, 22 August …
  • … Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October [1859] I suppose that you do not …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • of Darwins work, an article by the Italian botanist Federico DelpinoThe article addressed
  • experiments on rabbits ( letter from Francis Galton, 11 December 1869 ). This was the beginning of

Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…

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  • … in 1867 were Hermann Müller and Anton Dohrn in Germany, and Federico Delpino in Italy, who provided …
  • … asking again for information on Fuegian expressions. On 11 January 1867, Sulivan replied , …
  • … to Alfred Russel Wallace, who suggested in his response of 11 March [1867] that Darwin send his …
  • … Darwin’s theory (letter from Fritz to Hermann Müller, 11 February 1867, in Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: …