To Roland Trimen 27 August [1863]
Summary
Discusses methods of pollination in orchids.
Thinks RT should investigate Physianthus to see if it requires insect aid for fertilisation as the Asclepiadaceae do.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4279 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … Candolle, 4 August [1863] , and letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] . CD described his …
- … the letter from Roland Trimen, 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 . Letter from Roland Trimen, 16, …
- … 17, and 19 July 1863 . See letter from Roland Trimen, 16, …
- … 24, and letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863 and nn. 17, 18, and 20. CD modified his …
- … 152–3), and Orchids 2d ed. , pp. 229–31. Bates 1863 . See letter from Roland Trimen, 16, …
- … and Orchids 2d ed. , p. 40. Trimen 1863 . See letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] and …
- … was made from Trimen’s sketches (see letter from Roland Trimen, 16 March 1863 and nn. …
- … 20 and 21, and letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] ). These watercolour sketches are …
- … in A. Gray 1862b . See also this volume, letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] and n. …
- … 246. See letter from Roland Trimen, 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 . In his letter of 16, 17, …
- … wood-sorrel) with his letter to CD of 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 . CD had discussed Linum …
- … of orchids (see letter from Roland Trimen, 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 and n. 13, and …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 3 August [1863] and n. 6). See also letter to Alphonse de …
- … 1863 and n. 21; Trimen had reported that the milkweed Physianthus albens , a member of the Asclepiadaceae, trapped insects that landed on its flowers. The references are to Robert Brown and to Robert Brown 1833b. The reference is to Apocynum androsaemifolium , which CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin , had grown. See Correspondence vol. 8, letters …
- … 1863 , Trimen remarked that he had verified CD’s explanation of pollination in this orchid genus. CD described pollination in Cypripedium in Orchids , pp. 270–6, where he hypothesised that the pollinating insect would insert its proboscis at the base of the labellum directly over an anther. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
- … 1863 ; Trimen had said that he would collect seeds of dimorphic species of Oxalis for CD. CD had been investigating dimorphism in species of Oxalis since 1861 (see Correspondence vols. 9 and 10). ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ ; for CD’s presentation list for this paper, see Correspondence vol.11, Appendix IV. CD refers to the existence of trimorphic flowers in species of Lythrum (see letter …
To Roland Trimen 23 May [1863]
Summary
CD has drawn up a paper from RT’s orchid notes on the fertilisation of Disa grandiflora for the Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 7 (1863): 144–7].
CD would welcome seeds of any Cape Oxalis for his investigation of dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4179 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … p. 142; Collected papers 2: 139). See also letter to Roland Trimen, 31 January [1863] . …
- … See letter from Roland Trimen, 16 March 1863 . …
- … of Disa graminifolia ) with his letter of 16 March 1863 . The sketch of Disa grandiflora …
- … the letter from Roland Trimen, 16 March 1863 . Letter from Roland Trimen, 16 March 1863 . …
- … for publication (see letter from Roland Trimen, 16 March 1863 and nn. 6 and 21). Trimen …
- … to the Journal of the Linnean Society ). See letter from Roland Trimen, 16 March 1863 . …
- … In his letter to Trimen of 31 January [1863] , CD asked for specimens of the orchid …
- … might examine them. See letter from Roland Trimen, 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 . CD had been …
From Roland Trimen 16, 17, and 19 July 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for two letters and his portrait.
CD’s book [Orchids] opened up terra incognita for him.
His work on S. African butterflies continues.
Reports on a moth that punctures peach skins.
Interesting that thoughtful naturalists are forced to admit mutability of species.
Some notes on Oxalis.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16, 17 and 19 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 13–16d, DAR 142: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4243 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … Harvey, 3 February 1863 , in his letter to Trimen …
- … Trimen refers to the letter to the Athenæum , 18 April [1863], and to Jean Baptiste de …
- … Letters to Roland Trimen , 16 February [1863] and …
- … of 16 February [1863] . See letter to Roland Trimen, 16 February [1863] and n. 3. …
- … Ludwig Pappe . See letter to Roland Trimen, 16 February [1863] . The superintendent of the …
- … Gardens, Kew ( R. Desmond 1994 ). See letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] and nn. 2 …
- … and 3. See letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] and n. 5. …
- … Orchids. Trimen 1863 . See letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] and n. 5. Trimen 1862– …
- … 140). Bates 1861 . See letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] and n. 9. The drawing has …
- … African wood-sorrel. See letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] and n. 9. See Orchids , …
- … not published (see letter to [ Gardeners’ Chronicle ], [after 27 August 1863] . CD cited …
- … 23 May [1863] . CD had enclosed a copy of the letter from W. H. …
- … th . July, 1863. My dear Sir, I have to thank you for both your kind letters, respectively …
From Roland Trimen 10, 13, and 18 October 1863
Summary
Comments on CD’s paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Sends specimens of dimorphic and trimorphic Oxalis.
Comments on H. W. Bates’s work [Naturalist on the river Amazons].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10, 13 and 18 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: B122–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4319 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Roland Trimen, 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 , and letters to Roland Trimen , 23 May [1863] , …
- … pp. 45–50). See letter from Roland Trimen, 16, 17 and 19 July 1863 , and letter to Roland …
- … Letter to Roland Trimen, 27 August [1863] . ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ ; for CD’s …
- … after 27 August 1863] . See letter to Roland Trimen, 27 August [1863] and nn. 12–13. …
- … have not been found. Letter to Roland Trimen, 27 August [1863] . The rates of postage from …
- … wood-sorrel) with his letter of 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 . The specimens Trimen mentions …
- … th . October, 1863. My dear Sir, I have today received your very welcome letter of August …
- … Trimen, 27 August [1863] and nn. 7 and 8. See also letter to [Gardeners’ Chronicle], [ …
- … letter containing particulars, of which I have no doubt I could send you a copy, if it would be of any use. Wishing you renewed strength for the prosecution of your researches, | I remain, my dear Sir, | Yours very truly, | Roland Trimen. P.S. (18 th . )— I leave tomorrow on a week’s trip to a part of the country which I have not yet visited. I trust to fall in with some local forms of both Insects & Plants. 0.2 1863. ] …
To Roland Trimen 13 May 1864
Summary
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 13 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4493 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] , and letter from Roland Trimen, 10, …
- … Trimen, 16 March 1863 , and letter to Roland …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Roland Trimen, 25 November [1863] ). See also letter …
- … for the Linnean Society ( Trimen 1863 ). See Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Roland …
- … 1863 ). CD’s notes on Oxalis , including the Cape specimens, are in DAR 109. See also letter …
- … 1863 CD asked Trimen to look for dimorphic species of Oxalis at the Cape of Good Hope; his interest in Cape specimens increased after Trimen informed him that he had found species of Oxalis that presented three forms (long-styled, short-styled and mid-styled flowers), enclosing drawings and specimens (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … 1863] . CD refers to an error in his description of the position of the viscid discs of the pollinia in relation to the passages leading to the nectary (see Poulton 1909 , p. 227, n. 3). The erratum sent to the Journal of the Linnean Society has not been found. Trimen’s additional observations on Disa grandiflora were presumably sent in his missing letter …
From Roland Trimen 16 March 1863
Summary
RT has sent his observations on orchids to CD. Has found only one case of an insect with a pollinium adhering to it.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 70: 180, DAR 178: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4046 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … See letter to Roland Trimen, 31 January [1863] and n. …
- … 2. See letter to Roland Trimen, 31 January [1863] and n. 6. Trimen’s initial letter to …
- … has not been found (see letter to Roland Trimen, 31 January [1863] and n. 2). Some of …
- … has not been identified. In his letter of 31 January [1863] , CD asked Trimen to send him …
- … have been removed from Disa grandiflora . See letter to Roland Trimen, 31 January [1863] . …
- … In his letter to Trimen of 23 May [1863] , CD reported that he had reworked Trimen’s …
- … 20 and 21, below. See letter to Roland Trimen, 31 January [1863] and n. 10. The source of …
- … the exact reference has not been found. See also letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] . …
- … See letter to Roland Trimen, 31 January [1863] and n. 12. Trimen later sent CD …
- … by Trimen. See letter from Roland Trimen, 10, 13, and 18 October 1863 . Henry Trimen was a …
- … 16 th . March, 1863. My dear Sir, I have received your kind letter of the 31 st . January, …
- … letter, which has not been found, giving instructions about the reproduction of four of the diagrams in Trimen 1863 ( …
- … 1863 , p. 145. Trimen’s original labelling of these diagrams was altered, in an unknown hand, to a more sophisticated scheme used in publication. On the verso of the enclosure is an annotation, also in an unknown hand, which states: ‘No. 1558. | Drawings on wood to be | made by M r . Fitch. | A/c. for drawing & cutting | block to be sent to M r . Darwin. | Letters …
To Roland Trimen 16 February [1863]
Summary
Further discusses RT’s observations on Cape [of Good Hope] orchids and asks whether it would be possible for him to send some specimens to Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 55) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3988 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … orchids ( R. Desmond 1994 ). In his letter of 16 March 1863 , Trimen promised to send CD …
- … 1, and letters to Roland Trimen , 31 January [1863] and …
- … Africa ( DNB ). See also letter from Roland Trimen, 16 March 1863 . Trimen published his …
- … an upper sepal. ’ In his letter of 3 February 1863 (see n. 2, above), Harvey stated: ‘In …
- … W. H. Harvey, 3 February 1863 . CD refers to the letter from W. H. Harvey, 3 February …
- … taxonomy of South African plants. See letter from W. H. Harvey, 3 February 1863 , n. …
- … 23 May [1863] . Trimen added a marginal annotation to CD’s letter concerning this point: ‘ …
To Roland Trimen 25 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s doctor [J. M. Gully] has ordered him to do nothing for six months.
Thanks RT for orchid specimen.
Dares not look at Oxalis flowers.
Regrets RT cannot get seed, especially from his trimorphic flowers.
Asks for bulbs of two or three forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4347 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … a letter to Henry Walter Bates with his letter to CD of 10, 13, and 18 October 1863 . …
- … and the letter from Roland Trimen, 10, 13, and 18 October 1863 . See letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, [13 November 1863] . In his letter of 10, 13, and 18 October 1863 , Trimen noted …
- … in bottles of spirit. In his letter of 10, 13, and 18 October 1863 , Trimen enclosed dried …
- … itself. See the letter to the [ Gardeners’ Chronicle ], [after 27 August 1863] for CD’s …
- … plants. In the letter from Roland Trimen, 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 , Trimen reported a …
To Roland Trimen 25 November 1864
Summary
Has forwarded RT’s paper on Bonatea to the Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 156–60].
The Oxalis sent by RT flowered but CD has made out only two forms; he thinks there ought to be three, so would welcome more seed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4680 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … study the species in his letter to Trimen of 31 January [1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11). …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 . See letter to Richard …
- … 1863] and n. 10, and letter to Roland Trimen, 31 January [1863] ). CD had suggested that …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Roland Trimen, 16 February [1863] and n. 4). See …
- … of Satyrium from Trimen in January 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. …
To Roland Trimen 2 January [1868]
Summary
CD seeks information on the variation of ocelli within species of butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 62) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5772 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Trimen, 31 January [1863] , and letter from Roland Trimen, 16 March 1863 ). …
- … of orchids from Trimen in 1862 and 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Roland …
- … 1863 are reproduced in Correspondence vol. 11, facing p. 246. In Descent 2: 132–3, CD cited information from Trimen about the high degree of variability of ocelli in South African moths and butterflies. He included an illustration, based on a drawing by Trimen, of different specimens of the butterfly Cyllo leda (now Melanitis leda ), showing gradations in the formation of ocelli. There is a photographic slide of a drawing of C. leda , after Trimen’s original, in DAR 233.2: 76. In his letter …
To Roland Trimen 31 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks RT for his letter and MS.
Is astonished by the different forms of orchids he describes.
Urges RT to describe and experiment with two or three of the more distinct genera.
"I believe, or am inclined to believe in one or very few primordial forms, from community of structure and early embryonic resemblances in each great class."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 78) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3956 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … illustrations were some of those sent with Trimen’s letter to CD of 16 March 1863 . …
- … See also letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [ 1863] . See n. 6, below. See Orchids 2d ed. , …
- … by the reference to Trimen 1863 (see n. 2, below). Trimen’s letter, the manuscript of his …
- … found. However, see the letter from W. H. Harvey, 3 February 1863 . Harvey was professor …
- … 1863 , p. 147, Trimen suggested that the orchids with long nectaries might also be attractive to ‘some day-flying Hymenopterous or Lepidopterous insect’. CD later published a comment on Trimen’s observation of a ‘Dipterous insect, allied to Bombylius , frequenting the flowers’ ( ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , p. 144; Collected papers 2: 141). CD refers to Orchids , published in May 1862; he included this point in ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , p. 142 ( Collected papers 2: 139–40). See also Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
To Roland Trimen 24 December [1867]
Summary
Invites RT to come to Down for a week-end.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 61) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5739 |
From Roland Trimen 13 April 1868
Summary
Extract from Émile Blanchard’s Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insectes [1868], on attraction of males by female Lepidoptera, and possible explanation.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B50–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6116 |
From Roland Trimen 13 December 1865
Summary
Butterflies of Mauritius.
RT’s Bonatea paper published by Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 156–60].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4951 |
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| Trimen, Roland | (5) |
| Trimen, Roland | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
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- … The Project was contacted by the owner of an important Darwin letter that contains a rare instance …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
Dining at Down House
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's …
Science, Work and Manliness
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels …
Darwin as mentor
Summary
Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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- … Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
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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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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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…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
Inheritance
Summary
It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
Climbing Plants
Summary
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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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment A monograph by which to work …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
