To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Summary
Request for Floras of Pacific Islands and Greenland.
Individual variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [June 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 222b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2198 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [June 1857] …
- … DAR 114: 222b Charles Robert Darwin Down [June 1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Press. 1985–. Lange, Johan Martin Christian. 1857. Oversigt over Graennlands planter. Vol. …
- … In the letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] , CD stated that he had been collecting …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] . The final question in this memorandum is …
- … work in Natural selection . Probably Lange 1857 . Robert Brown . CD had previously asked …
- … to be highly variable ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 [May 1857] ). See also letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 3 June [1857] and …
- … 5 June [1857] , in which CD expressed his surprise that examples could not be found in …
- … related to a point discussed by CD in the letters to J. D. Hooker, 16 [May 1857] and …
- … 3 June [1857] . The chapter of CD’s species …
- … topic is discussed was completed on 5 July 1857 (‘Journal’; see Correspondence vol. 6, …
- … Hooker, who had worked on the flora of a neighbouring Pacific island in 1857 ( J. …
- … D. Hooker 1857 ), would presumably have known whether any botanical studies of the area …
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1857]
Summary
Species with marked varieties.
Dana’s pamphlet also too metaphysical for CD.
Natural selection chapter on hybridism completed.
Doubts JDH will resist theory in his introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2194 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 218 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Dec [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [17–23 December 1857] and n. 5. See letter …
- … to A. R. Wallace, 22 December 1857 , n. 11. …
- … D. Hooker, [17–23 December 1857] ). …
- … In ‘Thoughts on species’ ( Dana 1857 ), James Dwight Dana tried to establish the …
- … 1865. See also letter to T. H. Huxley, 16 December [1857] . J. D. Hooker 1860 . …
- … hybridism, which was completed on 29 December 1857 (‘Journal’; see Correspondence vol. 6, …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [17–23 December 1857] . CD did not conclude his statistical analysis …
- … and June 1858 ( J. Browne 1980 , p. 87). Brown 1810 . Dana 1857 (see letter from J. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Dana, James Dwight. 1857. Thoughts on species. American Journal …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857]
Summary
Rule that species vary most in larger genera seems universal.
Response to Gardeners’ Chronicle note on "Bees and kidney beans" [Collected papers 1: 275–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2170 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857] …
- … DAR 114: 215 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 [Nov 1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … CD went to London on Tuesday, 17 November 1857 and returned to Down House on Friday, 20 …
- … and Watson 1847–59 from Hooker (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] , 20 …
- … October [1857] , and [ …
- … 23 October 1857] ). See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [23 October 1857] . Candolle and Candolle 1824–73 . …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1857] . John Lindley , whom Hooker had proposed for a …
- … the anniversary meeting of the society on 30 November 1857. Charles Lyell , who had been …
- … for the Copley Medal, did not receive it in 1857 but was awarded the medal in 1858. …
- … CD spent the week of 5–12 November 1857 at Edward Wickstead Lane’s hydropathic …
- … recently published the first part of Lowe 1857[–72]. E. Forbes and Hanley [1848–]1853. …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] . …
- … Letter from Henry Coe, 4 November 1857 . See …
- … also letter from Henry Coe, 14 November 1857 . See letter to M. J. Berkeley, 29 …
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1857]
Summary
George Henslow’s curtness to JDH: "an attack of religion".
Embryonic leaves. Adaptive functions and taxonomic significance of cotyledons.
Asa Gray. Separation of sexes in U. S. trees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 July [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2116 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … See letter from Asa Gray, 1 June 1857 . …
- … To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 198 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 July [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … the children returning to Down on 4 July 1857 and Emma on 6 July ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …
- … portion of the letter from J. D. Hooker, [27] June 1857 may have discussed this point. …
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1857]
Summary
Inquiries on effect of dry heat on temperate plants for glacial chapter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2180 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 216 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Dec [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Harriet Henslow . Letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 December 1857] . …
- … to Harriet Henslow , who died on 20 November 1857. Candolle and Candolle 1824–73 . Thuret …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] . The final results of CD’s calculations …
- … pp. 153–4. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] , and letter to F. J. …
- … H. von Mueller, 8 December [1857]. See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [2 December 1857] . Frances Harriet Hooker was the daughter of John Stevens and …
To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1857]
Summary
Some negative results in variety tabulation survey.
Galls on wild carrot.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2137 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 209 Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Sept [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … calculations himself (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1857] ). …
- … the relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1857] . See letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 1 August [1857] and …
- … 22 August [1857] . Watson 1847–59 . CD’s calculations on Miquel 1837 are in DAR 15.2: 32– …
- … 150. See letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] . In the event, Hooker did not make the …
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1857]
Summary
Asks to borrow several Floras. Must redo calculations as John Lubbock has shown him an important error.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 July [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 204 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2124 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 204 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 July [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … June 1847] ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 July [1857] . Boreau 1840 . Fürnrohr 1839 . …
- … the librarian of the Linnean Society . During 1857, the society moved its premises into …
- … Burlington House, Piccadilly ( Gage 1938 ). See letter to John Lubbock, 14 [July 1857] . …
- … to John Lubbock (see letter to John Lubbock, 14 [July 1857] ). See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 1 July [1857] . The letter has not been located. For CD’s …
- … query, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 July [1857] . CD had mentioned this case of pelorism …
To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857]
Summary
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [after 20 Jan 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2033 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857] …
- … DAR 114: 190 Charles Robert Darwin Down [after 20 Jan 1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … H. Huxley, 17 January [1857] . ‘American-’ has been interlined in pencil before ‘Irish’, …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letters to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] , and …
- … 20 January[1857]. See letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] and …
- … 20 January [1857] . CD refers to a letter from Asa Gray …
- … and Joseph Dalton Hooker dated 5 January 1857 ( Asa Gray , Kew Correspondence 1839/73 ( …
- … 1854 , p. x). See also letter from T. V. Wollaston, [12 April 1857] . See letter to T. …
- … Flinders . A. Gray 1856–7 . See letter to Asa Gray, 1 January [1857] . See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 March [1857] , for an explanation of what is meant by ‘accidental’. Hooker …
To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857]
Summary
Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only strongly marked varieties. Planning large-scale survey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 206, 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2130 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 206, 207 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Aug [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Ledebour 1842–53 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 August [1857] ). …
- … J. D. Hooker 1853–5 and J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1857–8. Wollaston 1854 . Koch 1843–4 . …
- … Elizabeth Hooker , was born on 10 August 1857. For CD’s earlier remarks concerning the …
- … resulting from its use. See letters to J. S. Henslow, 10 August [1857] , and to John …
- … Lubbock , 11 August [1857] and …
- … 12 [August 1857]. Fürnrohr 1839 and Boreau 1840 . See …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1857] . By ‘hair splitters’ CD means those taxonomists …
To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1857]
Summary
Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 June [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2099 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 199 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 June [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … letter to William Sharpey 2 June [1857] . John Richardson had received one of the Royal …
- … for medals of the Royal Society in 1857 and by CD’s reference to visits to Moor Park (see …
- … council of the Royal Society of London in 1857 and 1858. CD had retired from the council …
- … in 1855. He was 83 years old and died at the end of 1857. The Philosophical Club of …
- … the Royal Society was to meet on 11 June 1857 ( Bonney 1919 , p. 136). …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin to Moor Park for hydropathy on 29 May 1857 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …
- … See also letter from Henrietta Emma Darwin, [2 August 1857] . See …
- … See letter to William Sharpey, 2 June [1857] . William Sharpey was one of the secretaries …
- … Society. Letter to Williamn Sharpey, 22 May [ 1857 . Charles Lyell received the society’s …
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1857]
Summary
Representative species may complicate tabulation of varieties.
Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway.
Has been writing an "audacious little discussion" to show that "organic beings are not perfect, only perfect enough to struggle with their competitors".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 211; DAR 115: 73a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2140 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 211; DAR 115: 73a Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Sept [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 August [1857] ). CD was preparing chapter 8 of Natural …
- … Carolina Naturae Curiosorum , 8 September [1857], and n. 5, below). See letters …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 1 August [1857] , 22 …
- … August [1857] , and …
- … 6 September [1857] . Ebenezer Norman made extensive tabulations …
- … sent by Hooker during the last quarter of 1857. The tabulations are in DAR 15.2, 16.1, and …
- … elected an adjunct member of the academy in 1857. A. Gray 1857a . Candolle and Candolle …
To J. D. Hooker 20 October [1857]
Summary
Returns some of the systematics books borrowed from JDH. Will now take on A. P. and Alphonse de Candolle [Prodromus].
Arrangements for a visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 212, 222c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2156 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 20 October [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 212, 222c Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Oct [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] . CD subsequently added in pencil: ‘( not …
- … to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 18 October [1857] ). CD was returning several botanical works …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] ). Ledebour 1842–53 . Grisebach 1843–4 . …
- … from Robert Schlagintweit, 25 September 1857 ). Boreau 1840 . CD discussed this query in a …
- … after ten weeks of therapy on 31 October 1857 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] . …
- … Letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 18 October [1857] . Thuret 1854–5 . This is CD’s ‘list of …
- … in the letter from Asa Gray, [August 1857] , as a plant in which insects could hardly be …
To J. D. Hooker [3 May 1857]
Summary
JDH’s last letter demolishes woolly alpine plant theory.
Correlation of apetalous flowers and cold climate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [3 May 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2088 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [3 May 1857] …
- … DAR 114: 196 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [3 May 1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [2 May 1857] , n. 2. J. D. …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 April 1857] , n. 7. CD refers to a manuscript list, …
- … plants according to their ‘woolliness’ (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [2 May 1857] ). …
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2042 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 189 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Jan [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letters to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] , and to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 17 January [1857]. William Jackson Hooker , George Bentham , and William …
- … Freeman Daniell . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] . See letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 17 January [1857] . William Sharpey was a secretary of the Royal Society. The …
To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1857]
Summary
Return of books.
JDH coming to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2157 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1857] …
- … DAR 114: 214 Charles Robert Darwin Down [23 Oct 1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … 4, below). The Friday preceding 31 October 1857 was 23 October. The address is that of CD’ …
- … of botanical books (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] ). See letter to J. …
- … S. Henslow, 25 September [1857] . Henrietta Darwin had been at Edward …
- … establishment at Moor Park since 22 August 1857. She returned home on 31 October ( Emma …
- … child, Marie Elizabeth, on 10 August 1857. Bartholomew James Sulivan . Miquel 1837 , about …
To J. D. Hooker 9 December [1857]
Summary
Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2182 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 9 December [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 217 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Dec [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1857] , and the letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] . CD eventually used six volumes of Candolle and Candolle …
- … writing Origin . See letter to George Bentham, 1 December [1857] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] . See letter …
- … Jakob Heinrich von Mueller, 8 December [1857] . CD’s letter to Charles Moore , director of …
To J. D. Hooker 15 March [1857]
Summary
Separation of sexes in trees [U. S.].
Do plants offer positive evidence for "continuous land" theory?
Protean genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2066 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 15 March [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 193 Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Mar [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … below). Letter from Asa Gray, 16 February 1857 . CD had sent Watson the last page of Asa …
- … of protean genera. See letter from H. C. Watson, 10 March 1857 and letter from H. C. …
- … Watson to Asa Gray, 13 March 1857 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 December 1856 . CD …
- … those of New Zealand. ’ ( J. D. Hooker 1857 , p. 126). Hooker found this difficult to …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [after 20 January 1857] ). CD summarised the botanical relations …
To J. D. Hooker 22 August [1857]
Summary
Tabulation of varieties goes on; very important as it shows the branching of forms. Mentions his principle of divergence.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 208 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2134 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 22 August [1857] …
- … DAR 114: 208 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Aug [1857] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … see letter to John Lubbock, 12 [August 1857] ). The Swedish botanist Nils Johan Andersson …
- … at Kew (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1857] ). For CD’s interest in the dun- …
- … coloured ponies of Norway, see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 13 June 1857]. …
- … Elizabeth Hooker was born on 10 August 1857. Hermann Rudolph Alfred Schlagintweit and his …
- … from Robert Schlagintweit, 25 September 1857 . CD had asked Walter Elliot , a member of …
- … second consignment was recorded on 6 September 1857 in CD’s Account book (Down House MS). …
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1858]
Summary
Writing section on large and small genera [for Natural selection, ch. 4].
Huxley supersedes Owen on parthenogenesis.
Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2248 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Notes on Livingstone 1857 are scattered throughout the Darwin Archive (see DAR 45, 46.1, …
- … Bibliography Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857–61. History of civilization in England. 2 vols. …
- … to T. H. Huxley, [before 12 November 1857] , for CD’s comments on Owen’s hypothesis. …
- … The first volume of Buckle 1857–61 , which CD recorded having read early in 1858 ( …
- … D. Hooker, [25] February [1858] ). Livingstone 1857 . CD entered this work in his reading …
- … had been recommended to him by Hooker in 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter from …
- … J. D. Hooker, [2 December 1857] ). …
- … Stuttgart. [Vols. 6,7] Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary travels and researches in …
To J. D. Hooker 25 June [1857]
Summary
Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 June [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2112 |
Matches: 4 hits
| letter | (102) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (98) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Vriese, W. H. de | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (102) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (98) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Vriese, W. H. de | (1) |
Six things Darwin never said – and one he did
Summary
Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly attributed to Darwin that never flowed from his pen.
Matches: 1 hits
- … Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
Summary
In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
Matches: 11 hits
- … of information about his preoccupations during 1856 and 1857. They reveal little noticed aspects of …
- … as ever I can.’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 8 February [1857] ). Darwin also attempted to test …
- … the alpine plants pretty effectually’ complained Darwin in 1857 ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [2 May …
- … of calculation was wrong ( letter to John Lubbock, 14 July [1857] ). Darwin thought his results …
- … experiments on plants through the summers of 1856 and 1857, particularly with garden vegetables like …
- … Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette in October 1857, to be followed by a second notice in 1858. …
- … find the work: am I not a kind Father?’ Darwin wrote in 1857, soon followed by the complaint ‘You …
- … to end!’ (letters to W. E. Darwin, [17 February 1857] and 21 [July 1857] ). The problem of …
- … of his manuscript ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 1 May 1857 ) seem innocuous and hardly the veiled …
- … are all vividly displayed in Darwin's letters. By the end of 1857, Darwin was well on the way …
- … long letter to Asa Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] ). From this letter it is evident …
Darwin and Down
Summary
Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … was in Darwin’s day. To J. D. Hooker, 3 June [1857] : on the struggle for existence in …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 2070: Wedgwood, Hensleigh to Darwin, C. R., [before 29 Sept 1857] Darwin’s brother-in-law, …
Abstract of Darwin’s theory
Summary
There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same date (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] and enclosure).…
Matches: 3 hits
- … natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same …
- … to Prof. Asa Gray, Boston, U.S., dated Down, September 5th, 1857.” (Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 50). …
- … was sent to A. Gray 8 or 9 months ago, I think October 1857 [‘or perhaps’ del ]’. The printed …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 4 hits
- … the Origin of Species…’ FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: 1857-1858 In which Gray and Hooker …
- … JUNE 1855 20 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 1 JANUARY 1857 21 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, …
- … MARCH 1862 35 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 1 JANUARY 1857 36 A GRAY TO C DARWIN …
- … OCTOBER 1858 59 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 12 OCTOBER 1857 60 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, …
The "wicked book": Origin at 157
Summary
Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…
Matches: 1 hits
- … ’s appearance, but there is a fascinating scrap from 1857 comparing his views on species to …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
Matches: 3 hits
What is an experiment?
Summary
Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
Summary
Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
Matches: 1 hits
- … written in 1842 , and, as he told Asa Gray in September 1857 , he intended to call the ‘ big …
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
Summary
Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
Matches: 7 hits
- … Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s …
- … 4 26 January 1857 Variation under nature (DAR 9; …
- … 5 3 March 1857 The struggle for existence as bearing on …
- … 6 31 March 1857 On natural selection (DAR 10.2; …
- … 7 29 September 1857 Laws of variation: varieties & …
- … 8 29 September 1857 Difficulties on the theory of …
- … 9 29 December 1857 Hybridism (DAR 12; Natural …
The evolution of honeycomb
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of other cells. (Letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 14 April 1857 .) In a later letter …
Darwin's bad days
Summary
Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
Matches: 1 hits
- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
Summary
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…
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,…
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…
Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
Matches: 3 hits
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
Summary
Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
Matches: 7 hits
- … ago’, he wrote to the American botanist Asa Gray in July 1857, it occurred to me that …
- … staggered about the permanence of species.— By 1857, Darwin had found the confidence to …
- … And this much acceleration I owe to you. ’ In February 1857, the rate of this acceleration was …
- … the way facts fall into groups ’, he told Fox in February 1857. Trials of strength …
- … in theory of the descent of species ’. In December 1857, Darwin had expressed his satisfaction that …
- … there is no good & original observation ’. In 1857, Darwin recorded in his journal that …
- … varieties differ from each other’, he told Wallace in May 1857, before stating ‘ I am now preparing …
The writing of "Origin"
Summary
From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
Matches: 3 hits
- … completed his ninth chapter, on hybridism, on 29 December 1857, Darwin began in January 1858 to …
- … on variation under nature. Having learned in the summer of 1857 that his method for deriving …
- … with an abstract of his views sent to Asa Gray in September 1857. The correspondence between Darwin, …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
Matches: 21 hits
- … 112 Jukes. “Students Manual of Geology” [Jukes 1857]— published a few years ago, good on …
- … Lucas l’Heredite Naturelle [Lucas 1847–50] 1857 Nov. 15. Andersson Lake Gnami …
- … Thackeray English Humourists [Thackeray 1853] 1857 Jan. Cockburn life of Selby [ …
- … 1856]: H. Coverdale [Smedley [1854–6]: Quits [Tautphoeus] 1857] 29 Lutfullah. Life of …
- … Marsh] 1858] Buckle History of Civilisation [Buckle 1857] Feb. 28 Sir J. Mackintosh …
- … Oct. 22. Olmstead Journey through Texas [Olmsted 1857] Dec. Motley’s History of Dutch …
- … 1853]— Aug.— Sherard Osborne’s Quedah [Osborn 1857] d[itt]o d[itt]o Arctic Journal …
- … Harris 1842] Jukes Student Manual of Geology [Jukes 1857] Azara’s Quadrupeds [Azara …
- … *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857. History of civilization in …
- … 21v., 22; 119: 19a Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. 1857. The life of Charlotte Brontë . …
- … [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 138.] 119: 20a ——. 1857. The student’s manual of geology. …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 15v. Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary travels and researches …
- … 3 vols. Vivay. [Other eds.] *119: 22 Lutfullah. 1857. Autobiography of Lutfullah: a …
- … *119: 23; 128: 5 Napier, William Francis Patrick. 1857. The life and opinions of General …
- … of Elgin’s mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, 1858, 1859 . 2 vols. Edinburgh and …
- … on their economy . New York. 128: 25 ——. 1857. A journey through Texas; or, a winter …
- … an Arctic journal\. London. 128: 25 ——. 1857. Quedah; or, stray leaves from a journal …
- … Rouvroy, Louis de, Duke de Saint-Simon Vermandois. 1857. The memoirs of the Duke of Saint Simon on …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 1v.; 119: 12a Smiles, Samuel. 1857. The life of George Stephenson, …
- … New York. *128: 178 [Tautphoeus, Jemima von]. 1857. Quits; a novel . 3 vols. London. …
- … . Edited by J. C. Morris. Madras. 1833–51. Second series, 1857–. [Abstract in DAR 74: 177.] *119: …
