To Asa Gray 15 August [1865]
Summary
Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".
Thanks for Specularia seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4882 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … To Asa Gray 15 August [1865] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (87) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Aug [1865] Asa Gray …
- … DAR 242) records ‘began diet’ on 24 July 1865; ‘left off diet’ on 29 July; ‘began diet’ on …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 . …
- … Letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 . CD refers to Gray’s …
- … plants’ (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and n. 5). Gray had objected to the …
- … sufficient (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 ; see also ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 95– …
- … Press. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. 1865. History of the rise and influence of the …
- … 624–9, 679–85. Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1865. Researches into the early history of mankind …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865] , and letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to …
- … J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] ). He consulted …
- … Henry Bence Jones in July and August 1865, recording payments of £1 1 s …
- … to Jones on 22 and 28 July 1865 and 13 …
- … and 30 August 1865 in his Account book–cash account (Down House MS). Jones recommended a …
- … strict diet (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). Emma Darwin’s …
- … mentioned. See letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and n. 3. CD had earlier complained …
- … see the letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and nn. 13 and 14. See also Colp 1978 . CD …
- … a letter to J. D. Hooker of 1 June [1865] , CD had mentioned that he could hardly read a …
- … vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] ). CD refers to Lubbock 1865 , …
- … Tylor 1865 , and …
- … Lecky 1865 . CD and Joseph Dalton Hooker had already discussed these books (see …
- … letters to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. …
- … 5, and [29 July 1865] and nn. 13 and 15). …
- … Wedgwood (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and n. 10). CD had evidently abandoned …
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … To Asa Gray 19 October [1865] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (93) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Oct [1865] Asa Gray …
- … climbing plants [ Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary. …
- … see letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865 and n. 6). The reference is to John Lloyd …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … established by the reference to A. Gray 1865–6 ; see n. 2, below. CD refers to the first …
- … plants’ in the American Journal of Science and Arts ( A. Gray 1865–6 ). The first …
- … of the review was published in September 1865 and the conclusion in January 1866. Gray …
- … 1868 (see letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] , n. 1). Joseph Dalton Hooker had suffered …
- … letter from F. H. Hooker, [17 August 1865] ). He had been offered leave until the end …
- … the month, but told CD he was returning to Kew about 20 October 1865 (see letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 6 October 1865 ); Daniel Oliver later told CD that he was expected to return …
- … London: John Murray. 1877. Gray, Asa. 1865–6. On the movements and habits of climbing …
- … days of Hunter and Charles Bell ’ ( A. Gray 1865–6 , pp. 273–4). Gray referred to the …
- … commented that he had observed ( A. Gray 1865–6 , p. 282): the strong summer-shoots of …
- … written after receiving a copy of CD’s ‘Climbing plants’ in August 1865 (see letters from …
- … Fritz Müller , 12 August 1865 and n. …
- … 11, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , and …
- … 31 August 1865 ; see also letter to …
- … Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ). Müller paid particular attention to branch climbers …
- … see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] and n. 3). By ‘regular work’ CD typically …
- … D. Hooker, 19 [April 1864] and n. 4). In 1865, CD conducted crossing experiments with …
- … volume, memorandum from W. E. Darwin, [late February–May 1865], and letter from B. …
- … D. Walsh, 29 May 1865 , n. 3). He counted seeds from crosses he made of long-styled …
- … trimorphic plants (see letter to Max Wichura, 3 February [1865] and n. 9). CD hoped to …
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
Matches: 21 hits
- … To Asa Gray 19 April [1865] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (77) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Apr [1865] Asa Gray …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 15 and 17 May 1865 . …
- … Letter from Asa Gray, 17 January 1865 ; CD wrote ‘19 th ’ in error. …
- … had fallen to Federal troops on 3 April 1865; General Robert E. Lee of the Army of …
- … at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on 9 April 1865. The other Confederate armies soon …
- … June (see letter from Charles Kingsley, 14 June 1865 ). ‘Climbing plants’ begins with an …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] ‘Two …
- … see the letter from Asa Gray, 17 January 1865 and n. 11. CD mentioned Auguste Laugel in …
- … his letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 April [1865] . On British fears that a victorious Union …
- … 9, and letter from Asa Gray, 17 January 1865 ). The building of the herbarium is discussed …
- … Scott . See letter from John Scott, 10 April 1865 and n. 13. At the end of his notice of …
- … see letter from Asa Gray, 15 and 17 May 1865 ); his observations on dimorphism in this …
- … translation of Mohl 1863 in the January 1865 issue of the American Journal of Science and …
- … criticisms, see the letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and n. 12. Gray acknowledged …
- … salicaria ’ in his letter of 17 January 1865 . For CD’s presentation list for this paper, …
- … III. CD refers to Variation (see letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] and n. 2). CD’ …
- … of climbing plants’ was published on 12 June 1865 in a double issue of the Journal of the …
- … was also published commercially in August 1865 by Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green …
- … Norgate (see Publishers’ Circular , 1 August 1865, p. 391, and Freeman 1977 , pp. 116– …
To Asa Gray 16 April [1866]
Summary
AG’s second article on Climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 41 (1866): 125–30].
Fritz Müller’s observations on Rubiaceae.
New edition [4th] of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5057 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … s review of ‘Climbing plants’ ( A. Gray 1865–6 ) appeared in the January 1866 issue of …
- … of the review (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to Asa Gray, 19 October [1865] ). CD’ …
- … s lightly annotated copy of Gray 1865–6 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In his …
- … by the House of Representatives in January 1865; by December it had received the required …
- … Books, Shoe String Press. Gray, Asa. 1865–6. On the movements and habits of climbing …
- … writing letters’. CD’s health had been poor for much of 1864 and 1865; he began to report …
- … some improvement in September 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 12, and Correspondence vol. …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … 13, letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 April 1865] and n. 14. See letter from Fritz Müller, …
To Asa Gray 13 September [1864]
Summary
Has finished Climbing plants;
resuming work on Variation.
Sends abstract of John Scott’s paper [see 4332].
Has received review of Herbert Spencer but cannot believe AG wrote it unless he has muddled his brains with metaphysics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (89) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4611 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … read at the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865. For the manuscript, see DAR 17 and DAR 18. …
- … in which Scott’s work confirmed CD’s observation, appeared in the January 1865 issue of …
- … the journal ( Gray 1865 ). John Scott had been without employment since leaving his …
- … John Scott, 7 January [1864] . In 1864 and 1865 CD made observations of cowslip pollen, …
- … 30 April 1864] and [after 19 May 1864]. In 1865 and 1866 CD repeated the experiments with …
- … experiments with P. vulgaris var. rubra in 1865 and 1866 using seeds sent by Scott with …
To Asa Gray 28 May [1864]
Summary
Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids
– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.
Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.
How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?
He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4511 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] …
- … and CD’s experiments with them in 1864 and 1865, are described in Forms of flowers , pp. …
- … paper in his letter to CD of 17 January 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13). In Gray 1862b , …
To Asa Gray 25 February [1864]
Summary
Has not worked for six months due to illness.
Has been looking at climbing plants.
Hermann Crüger’s paper shows that CD was right about Catasetum pollination. Crüger’s account of pollination of Coryanthes "beats everything".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4415 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 127–35. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’: …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] …
- … was read at the Linnean Society on 4 February 1865. Joseph Dalton Hooker . See letter from …
To Asa Gray 4 August [1863]
Summary
Anticipated AG’s attitude on design in orchids. Does he not think that the variations that gave rise to fancy pigeon varieties were accidental?
Has been working hard at Lythrum
and spontaneous movements of tendrils.
Defends Drosera as a "sagacious animal" but does not know whether he will ever publish on it.
Comments on political situation in U. S.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4262 |
To Asa Gray 6 November [1862]
Summary
Agrees Max Müller’s book [see 3752] is interesting but cannot see how it will further his "cause".
A book by J. W. Colenso [The Pentateuch and book of Joshua critically examined, pt 1 (1862)] has just appeared and will "make a noise".
Would like some observations made on Cypripedium.
Will not publish yet on Lythrum as he must make many more crosses; the mid-styled is fertile with half of its own stamens.
Would like to try a few experiments on tendrils.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 6 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3796 |
To Asa Gray 30 May [1875]
Summary
Wants seeds of Nesaea verticillata for crossing experiments to see whether seedlings from "illegitimate unions" are sterile like true hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 30 May [1875] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (121) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10002 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] …
To Asa Gray 26 June [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for references about phyllotaxy
and information on marriage laws.
Has been looking for dimorphism in Phlox and Euonymus.
Has observed the irritability of tendrils of Echinocystis with great interest. Was also struck by the rotating movements of the leading shoots, which he proposes to investigate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 26 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4222 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
To Asa Gray 29 October [1864]
Summary
Sends question [missing] for an ornithologist.
Is plodding on at Variation.
Has added to Climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 29 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (88) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4647 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
To Asa Gray 15 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for his trouble about expression queries; wishes he had thought earlier of having them printed.
Is "plodding on" correcting Variation
and getting "a little amusement" from plant experiments. Oxalis is trimorphic like Lythrum.
Is continuing his experiments on seedling vigour.
Has heard hybrid potatoes can be produced by joining halves of different tubers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5442 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] …
To Asa Gray 22 January [1862]
Summary
Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".
U. S. politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3404 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] …
To Asa Gray 4 December 1876
Summary
Plans to republish his paper on dimorphism with additions [Forms of flowers]. Is convinced it is necessary to compare pollen-grains and the state of the stigma to recognise dimorphic plants. Requests specific plants to test for dimorphism and would welcome examples from any family in which he has not encountered dimorphic species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10697 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in his letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] ( Correspondence vol. 13). He discussed these …
To Asa Gray 22 October 1872
Summary
Spiralling of tendrils.
Has worked hard on Drosera.
Is interested in tracing the "nerves" of Dionaea which follow the vascular bundles. Finds he can paralyse half of the leaf by pricking it at a certain point.
Wishes AG to carry out two experiments on D. filiformis.
Has received AG’s Dubuque address [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 4 (1872): 282–98].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8568 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Longman, Roberts & Green; Williams & Norgate. 1865. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
From Joseph Trimble Rothrock to Asa Gray 31 March 1867
Summary
Answers to CD’s questions on expressions among the Atnah and Espyox Indians of Nass River [see Expression, pp. 22, 232, 252, 260].
Discusses the debate in America over the relationship among Indian tribes. JTR does not believe Indians are all of one race; they are as varied as Europeans.
[Forwarded to CD by Asa Gray.]
Author: | Joseph Trimble Rothrock |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5478 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Western Union Telegraph Expedition from 1865 to 1866 ( DAB ). The Nass river of western …
From Charles Wright to Asa Gray 20, 25, and 26 March and 1 April 1864
Summary
Describes the flower and mode of action of a particular orchid.
Has been examining Spiranthes and is experimenting to see whether insects are necessary for its fertilisation.
It seems that Oncidium is designed so as not to be fertilised.
Author: | Charles Wright |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20, 25 and 26 Mar 1864 and 1 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4433 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864 and left for Cuba again in May 1865 (see Howard 1988 , pp. 15, 37, and Appendix 2). …
To Asa Gray 26[–7] November [1862]
Summary
Discusses AG’s article ["Dimorphism", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 419–20]. Does not like the terms "dioecio-dimorphism" or "precocious fertilisation". Discusses the separation of sexes in plants; cannot doubt that hermaphroditism is the aboriginal state.
Discusses AG’s observations on orchids and his review of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 26[–7] Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3830 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] ‘Two …
To Asa Gray 2 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … notes on M. repens , made in 1864 and 1865, are in DAR 110: B84–93; his results are given …
letter | (22) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Rothrock, J. T. | (1) |
Wright, Charles | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (22) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Rothrock, J. T. | (1) |
Wright, Charles | (1) |
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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: 29 hits
- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The …
- … However, several smaller projects came to fruition in 1865, including the publication of his long …
- … of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family had had a …
- … the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). Darwin was ready to submit his …
- … letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin, 3 January 1865 ). Erasmus forwarded his letters …
- … laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] ). Sic transit gloria …
- … the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] ). However, Hooker, at the time …
- … are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 ). Darwin, now ‘haunted’ by …
- … with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). Continuing ill-health …
- … to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). He particularly hated being ill …
- … of life. He wrote to Charles Lyell on 22 January [1865] , ‘unfortunately reading makes my head …
- … it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] ). In July, he consulted …
- … bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] ). By October, Darwin thought he might be …
- … to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] ). It was not until December, …
- … hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). Delays and …
- … last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] ). In April he authorised …
- … press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In early June, he wrote to Murray …
- … when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was not until 25 December …
- … of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). After sending the manuscript to the …
- … like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ). An abstract of the paper …
- … for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; Darwin noted at the beginning of …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June [1865] ). The paper was published in a …
- … German, he had it translated, and wrote to Müller in August 1865 that he had just finished hearing …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ; since it is impossible to …
- … clearly understand (l etter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] ). Darwin was particularly …
- … scientific work’ ( letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] ), he clearly read Müller’s letters …
- … from sea-sickness ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). This may have been unwise: Thomas …
- … & ability’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] ). Scott took these criticisms, no …
- … again when he had time ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ); at the time of writing, he had …
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Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
Summary
On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
Matches: 5 hits
- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London …
- … Darwin wrote that he fell ill again on 22 April 1865 and was unable to ‘do anything.’ Emma Darwin’s …
- … hand). Darwin began the ice treatment on 20 May 1865. In his letter to Chapman of 7 June 1865 …
- … from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865]). Darwin’s condition had been …
- … and George Busk (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [7 January 1865], and letter from George Busk, 28 April …
Prize possessions: To Henry Denny, 17 January [1865]
Summary
Between 1980 and 2018, I was honorary curator of the Alfred Denny Museum of Zoology in the University of Sheffield. One of our prize possessions was a letter from Darwin to Henry Denny, then curator and assistant secretary of the Literary and Philosophical…
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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…
Matches: 22 hits
- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in …
- … basis of Lubbock’s book, Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865). By 1860, Lyell had begun work …
- … material available pertaining to the antiquity of humans. In 1865, he wrote that the section on …
- … not pursue any grievance against Lyell until the spring of 1865. 13 In the course of …
- … C. Lyell 1863c and Lubbock 1861 (and consequently in Lubbock 1865), combined with the wording of …
- … between the end of February and the beginning of March 1865, Lubbock wrote the note which would …
- … received a copy of Lubbock’s book, published in mid-May 1865, he immediately wrote to express his …
- … Ramsay in a note to an article published in the April 1865 issue of the Philosophical Magazine . …
- … thought of the affair ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ). Hooker, for his part, could see …
- … for Lubbock’s book ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). A week later he sent Lubbock a …
- … the note in the preface (letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). No correspondence with Lyell …
- … him for an opinion ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 ), Darwin wrote back ( letter to J. D …
- … and Lubbock had no direct communication after the end of May 1865, each appealing to friends to …
- … Thus, in print-runs after the end of June 1865, Lubbock had cancelled his note at the end of the …
- … of both interested parties. Only one known review of Lubbock 1865 draws attention to Lubbock’s note; …
- … situation was succinct. In his letter to Hooker of [4 June 1865] he warned that no one could do …
- … (C. Lyell 1863c; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] and n. 13). The third edition had …
- … vii–ix (revised version of last section, printed in August 1865, but dated 1863 on the title page) …
- … of the ‘ Elements of geology ’ 34 [C. Lyell 1865], and the printed proofs were transferred …
- … (see enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ). Later, Lubbock claimed that he had …
- … the note which appeared at the end of the preface to Lubbock 1865. He told Hooker, ‘I did not trust …
- … ours’ (letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, …
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How to manage it: To J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865]
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Sometimes, what stands out in a Darwin letter is not what is in it, but what is left out or just implied because the recipient would have known what Darwin was referring to. It is frustrating to spend hours looking but fail to identify something mentioned…
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- … found in a relatively short letter written by Darwin in June 1865 to his close friend Joseph …
- … this letter was a reply ( From J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ), but there was no mention of any …
- … Indian mutiny. At least three novels had been written around 1865. Suddenly, ‘How to’ made sense: …
- … a favourable review in the Athenæum in January 1865. It had all the criteria for a novel Darwin …
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Inheritance
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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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Darwin's health
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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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- … regular attacks had occurred again in the last week of April 1865, and the third week of May, just …
- … threw up food. In his letter to Chapman of 16 May [1865] , Darwin stated that his sickness was …
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and 1865. ‘Bad hysteria & sickness’ were …
- … difficulties reading, see letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and 27 [or 28 September 1865] …
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George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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- … and Lady Lyell ( letter from J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865] ). …
3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'
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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of …
- … had been launched by Lovell Augustus Reeve in 1863, but by 1865 Edward Walford had taken over as …
- … Darwin wrote to Walford, probably in the spring of 1865, to say, ‘I should of course be proud to be …
- … more than one sitting seems to have taken place, in November 1865 and April 1866. Darwin’s account …
- … true Philosopher’. The beard that Darwin had grown by 1865–1866 helped to enhance this …
- … public image – wrote to Emma, apparently in late November 1865, to say that he was waiting for a …
- … which derived from the three-quarter view photograph of 1865–1866 mentioned above (see separate …
- … of image Ernest Edwards date of creation 1865–1866 computer-readable date …
- … Letter from Darwin to Edward Walford, 22 [Jan. – April 1865?], (DCP-LETT-5508). Letter from Erasmus …
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Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
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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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- … Darwin to Hooker (on hearing of Robert FitzRoy’s suicide), 1865. As you are now so …
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.…
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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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Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … started in January 1860, and advertised in the press since 1865 with the unwieldy title, …
- … apparently discussing it or showing it to anyone until 1865, when he sent a version of it to Huxley, …
- … a book based on a series of articles that had appeared in 1865. In it he challenged aspects of …
- … vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] and n. 4). Darwin’s wife and children also …
3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
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- … (DCP-LETT-4707); Naudin’s gushing acknowledgement, 18 June 1865 (DCP-LETT-4863). Letter from …
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Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Letter 4940 - Cresy, E. to Darwin, E., [20 November 1865] Edward Cresy Jnr. seeks Darwin …
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The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … precise measurement was bought to bear, a myth. In 1865, Darwin received a letter from Edward …
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Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…