skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

400 Bad Request

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.


Apache Server at dcp-public.lib.cam.ac.uk Port 443
Search:
in keywords
1 Items

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

Summary

The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Gardens, Edinburgh, that he should repeat Karl Friedrich von Gärtner’s experiments on  Verbascum , …
  • … in the  Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal  (Scott 1867), and Darwin summarised them in  …
  • … to receive virtual strangers like Samuel Butler ( letter to Julius von Haast, 26 December [1865] ) …