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List of correspondents
Summary
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,…
Matches: 9 hits
- … Breese, Charles (1) Brehmer, Hermann (2) …
- … Crowe, J. R. (2) Crüger, Hermann (6) …
- … Rudolf (1) Hoffmann, Hermann (6) …
- … Kindermann, A. D. (1) Kindt, Hermann (13) …
- … Fritz (111) Müller, Hermann (53) …
- … Orton, James (7) Otto, Hermann (1) …
- … Senior, N. W. (1) Settegast, Hermann (2) …
- … W. H. de (1) Vöchting, Hermann (2) …
- … Weisz, Béla (1) Welcker, Hermann (2) …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
Matches: 8 hits
- … a letter, insect specimens, and an article on orchids from Hermann Crüger, head of the botanic …
- … Catasetum tridentatum ’). He was also delighted that Crüger confirmed both his observation of …
- … 17 February [1864] ). Darwin was also impressed by Crüger’s discovery of the unique bucket …
- … including the 1866 edition of Origin . He communicated Crüger’s paper to the Linnean Society, in …
- … in 1877. These publications were partly inspired by Crüger’s work, and by Darwin’s continuing …
- … of information seemed only to grow in 1864. In addition to Crüger’s and Trimen’s orchid observations …
- … work was being read with particular enthusiasm in Germany. Hermann Kindt, a German living in England …
- … the materialist philosophy of Ludwig Buchner ( letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864 ). …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … 23 May [1863] ). Darwin began to exchange letters with Hermann Crüger, a German botanist in …
