From John Scott 15 November [1862]
Summary
Appreciates CD’s acknowledging his letter and his comments on Acropera. Will send CD the Acropera capsule which is now maturing.
Experimenting on vegetable parthenogenesis.
Structure of Acropera.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3808 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … to Scott 1862a (see n. 7, below). Letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] . See …
- … Scott, 11 November 1862 , and letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] . James McNab was …
- … from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , and letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] . …
- … See letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] . Some indication of the contents of the …
- … 12 June 1862. There is an annotated copy of this paper in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See letter …
- … 12 th . I am pleased to see that the four suggestions &c. I ventured in elucidating the structure of Acropera have been considered worthy of your notice. I was afraid that, they—unaccompanied as they were by either specimens or drawings, and communicated by one of whom you had no knowledge—would ever remain unacknowledged. And I can assure you, Sir, I felt deeply ashamed at my presumption, on reflecting after the letter …
From J. D. Hooker [14 December 1862]
Summary
On Asa Gray’s letter; has written why he avoids alluding to the war.
Has read Max Müller [see 3752] – last part unphilosophical.
On CD’s pigeon example, long-beaked and short-beaked pigeons must be either sterile or not inter se. There is "no such thing as Equality – hence no such thing as chance and Nat. Sel. is the sword of Damocles hanging over your head if you make a slip in your premisses."
Has read note on Lythrum sent several weeks ago. Its consequences are of most prolific order to CD’s doctrine.
Kew has no wild gooseberries.
JDH praises the Saturday Review reply [14 (1862): 589] to the Duke of Argyll’s bitter review of Orchids ["The supernatural", Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3846 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] , and the letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 …
- … and Dutrochet 1837 . In his letter to Hooker of 12 [December 1862] , CD inquired about …
- … nn. 8 and 9. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] . See letters to J. D. …
- … Hooker, [after 26] November [1862] and 12 [December 1862] . See letter to J. D. …
- … 24 November 1862 with his letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] . Hooker and Gray …
- … 24 [November 1862] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] . The references are …
- … of 18 [November 1862] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 18. …
From Daniel Oliver 14 April 1862
Summary
Discusses primrose ovules,
Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],
plant migrations;
Corydalis.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3722 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … organs, which are never wholly separated. See letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] . …
- … See letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] . Walter Hood Fitch , a botanical artist at …
- … condition in Primula ’ (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ). Oliver had …
- … Oliver, 10 April 1862 , and letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ). Oliver refers to …
- … p. 237. Oliver 1862b . See letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] . Oliver refers to …
To J. H. Balfour 15 June [1862?]
Summary
Thanks JHB for specimen of Corallorrhiza;
would like some seeds of Corydalis claviculata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
Date: | 15 June [1862?] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Louis Mayer Rabinovitz Collection (MS 1044) Box 1, folder 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5122 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [November 1862]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter: "nearly as mad as ever in our English eyes".
Bates’s paper is admirable. The act of segregation of varieties into species was never so plainly brought forth.
CD is a little sorry that his present work is leading him to believe rather more in the direct action of physical conditions. Regrets it because it lessens the glory of natural selection and is so confoundedly doubtful.
JDH laid too much stress on importance of crossing with respect to origin of species; but certainly it is important in keeping forms stable.
If only Owen could be excluded from Council of Royal Society Falconer would be good to put in. CD must come down to London to see what he can do.
Falconer’s article in Journal of the Geological Society [18 (1862): 348–69] shows him coming round on permanence of species, but he does not like natural selection.
Sends Lythrum salicaria diagram.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 [Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 173, 279b; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Hooker letters 2: 46 JDH/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3822 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 27 [October 1862] and nn. 11 and 12, letter to W. E. Darwin, 4 [November 1862] , and …
- … appeared (see DAR 222 and DAR 75: 1–12). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 …
- … the Royal Society of London 12: 299). Hugh Falconer . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 …
- … 20 November [1862] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] ). The opening …
- … salicaria ; see also ibid. , letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . CD sent …
From Daniel Oliver 10 April 1862
Summary
Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.
Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Observations on Campanula dimorphism.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3502 |
To Hugh Falconer 14 November [1862]
Summary
Comments on HF’s paper on Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds. Paper "dreadfully severe" on Owen.
"I am worse than ever in bearing any excitement."
Glad HF attacked Australian Mastodon. Never did believe in him.
Mentions Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 14 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3806 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … CD a copy of Falconer 1862 with his letter of 12 November [1862] ; it was published in …
- … by the relationship to the letter from Hugh Falconer, 12 November [1862] . Falconer …
- … See letter from Hugh Falconer, 12 November [1862] . Falconer had regretted not seeing CD …
- … see n. 8, above). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 [November 1862] and n. 12. …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [October 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Aldrovanda reference and Cassia.
Has wasted labour on Melastomataceae without getting a glimpse of the meaning of the parts.
Wants seeds, from their native land, of Heterocentron or Monochaetum.
Is beginning to change his view about rarity of natural hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3762 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker [12 October 1862] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n. 4, and letter to Daniel Oliver, 13 …
- … Letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] . The first part of the first volume of …
- … Insectivorous plants , p. 321. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n. …
- … Hooker, 6 October [1862] . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n. 5. In …
- … notes in DAR 48: 49 v. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n. 18. In …
- … October [1862] and n. 14. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n. 11. …
From Robert Swinhoe 2 December 1862
Summary
Sends CD a Chinese breed of guinea-pig. Has heard it claimed that the domestic guinea-pig will not interbreed with the wild rock cavy and that, therefore, artificial selection has formed a new species.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3842 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1862
Summary
Returns Asa Gray letter. Gray has made a great blunder in his criticism of Oliver: he mistakes perpetuation of a variety for "propagation of variation". Confusion between "action of physical causes" and "effects of physical causes". Neither crossing nor natural selection has made so many divergent individuals, but simply variation. "If once you hold that natural selection can create a character your whole doctrine tumbles to the ground." CD’s failure to convey this, and the false doctrine that "like produces like" is at bottom of half the scientific infidelity to CD’s doctrine. There is something to the objection that CD has made a deus ex machina of natural selection since he neglects to dwell on the facts of infinite incessant variations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 61–2, 77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3831 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 and] 20 November [1862]
Summary
Sends CD West Ireland soundings.
More detail on his review "a la Lindley" [see 3797].
Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566] is capital.
Andrew Murray’s article plays into CD’s hands through sheer ignorance.
JDH is on Royal Society Council.
Has no recollection of applying natural selection to Polynesians. None but a German would dig out such a passage if it exists [see 3812].
Has caused Tyndall to modify his pseudo-geology.
Has not seen Duke of Argyll’s review [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97]. [The Duke] did not understand Orchids the least little bit, nor the Origin, when JDH saw him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 20 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 71–2, 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3807 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … G. D. Campbell] 1862 is confirmed by the Wellesley index 1: 511–12. See letter to J. …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. 26, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [ …
- … J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . The second part of this letter was written on a …
- … by the relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] ; the Saturday …
- … J. D. Hooker] 1862c). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . [J. D. …
- … 1862] ). John Tyndall . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. …
- … 23 [November 1862] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. 20. The …
- … 1862 , and letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 November [1862] and [10–]12 November [1862] ). …
- … 12 November [1862] . Hooker refers to specimens in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Hooker refers to Wray 1861a , in which the author contrasted the ‘scientific culture of the strawberry’ in the United States, where the tendency to dioecism of the cultivated strawberry was made the basis for horticultural practice, with strawberry growing in Britain. See letter …
- … letter of 3 November [1862] , CD requested that Hooker inform him of the number of the volume of the London Journal of Botany in which Planchon 1847–8 appeared, so that he might borrow it from the library of the Linnean Society of London. This commonly used phrase translates: ‘Alas! wretched me’. Richard Owen and Hooker were formally elected to the council of the Royal Society of London at the anniversary meeting of the society on 1 December 1862 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 12 ( …
To M. T. Masters 8 July [1862]
Summary
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3645 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 11 July 1862
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3654 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [November 1862]
Summary
A German scholar says JDH first applied natural selection to replacement of races of men, the ruder races of Polynesians yielding to civilised Europeans. CD cannot remember reading this.
Warns JDH to take care Welwitschia does not turn into a case of barnacles and consume years instead of months.
In what months do flowers appear in Acropera loddigesia and A. luteola? CD is alarmed by John Scott’s observations on them, which differ from his own. "I am very uneasy."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3812 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bonafous 1836 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1862 and n. 5. Samuel …
- … Hooker, 3 November [1862] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1862 . CD refers …
- … Burton and Gustav Mann . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1862 and nn. 7 and …
- … in plant cells. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 and n. 12. CD wished to …
To P. L. Sclater 14 May [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 14 May [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3545 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 12 May [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 12 May [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.276) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3543 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 17 June [1862]
Summary
Is pleased that AdeC is interested in the Primula case ["Dimorphic condition of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Is pursuing analogous experiments on other plants and on seedlings raised from the unions.
CD’s "large work" progresses slowly owing to ill health and his work on Orchids.
CD is not surprised that AdeC is unwilling to admit natural selection – "the subject hardly admits of direct proof or evidence. It will be believed in only by those who think that it connects & partly explains several large classes of facts".
Hopes AdeC will publish on Quercus
and rejoices that he intends to return to the study of geographical distribution. No one can claim to have read AdeC’s truly great work on that subject [Géographie botanique (1855)] with more care than CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 17 June [1862] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3608 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 September 1862]
Summary
Thanks for JDH’s letter [3725].
Has become interested in experimenting on Drosera.
Observations on the ovaria of Cruciferae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3729 |
To J. D. Hooker [10–]12 November [1862]
Summary
So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.
Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.
Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.
Is working on cultivated plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10–]12 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3801 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … deleted the date and wrote ‘12 th ’; the text of the letter confirms that it was written …
- … Hooker, 7 November 1862 and n. 12. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 November 1862 and …
- … Bromley Kent Nov 12 th . My dear Hooker What a long & interesting letter you have sent …
- … CD’s abstracts of the journal are in DAR 75: 1–12. Dawson 1862a . See letter from J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker 2 November 1862
Summary
Stupefied by CD’s five forms of Lythrum.
Asa Gray busy with Cypripedium. JDH offers some to CD if he wants to challenge Gray.
J. W. Dawson’s review of JDH’s paper on Arctic plants.
Louis Lucien Bonaparte’s views on Basque and Finnish language [Langue basque et langues finnoises (1862)] suggest to JDH that Basques are Finns left behind after the glacial period, like the Arctic plants!
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 66–7, 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3792 |
letter | (138) |
Darwin, C. R. | (79) |
Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
Gray, Asa | (5) |
Nevill, D. F. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
Gray, Asa | (9) |
Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Oliver, Daniel | (6) |
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Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
Summary
You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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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…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
Summary
< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
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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 …
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
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Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
Women’s scientific participation
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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 …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
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Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
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Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
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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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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
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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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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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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 …
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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
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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 …
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Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
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Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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