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Climbing Plants

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…

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  • … Letter 8545 - Asa Gray to Charles Darwin, 6 October 1872 Asa Gray writes to Darwin …
  • … with his wife. Letter 8593 - Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle, 2 November1872 …
  • … Letter 8656 - Asa Gray to Charles Darwin, 2 December 1872 Asa Gray writes to Darwin …

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 …
  • … on fossil shells of N. America [Conrad 1838] Atlas de la Geographie des trois Regnes de la …
  • … [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 …
  • … 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.  …
  • … of wheat . Jersey and London. [Darwin Library; 2d ed. (1872) also in Darwin Library.]  *119: 7v.; …

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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  • … 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 …
  • … 25 DECEMBER 1874 206  TO A GRAY 15 JANUARY [1872] 207  FROM A GRAY 2 …

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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  • no stranger to physiology in contexts other than botany. His 1872 workExpression of the emotions
  • 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 Candolles  Phytographie   …

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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  • … inner circle of expert naturalists. The Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle described on 6 July …
  • … ( 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 ). …