To John Scott 20 May [1864]
Summary
Corrects his former account of cowslips.
The delay in the publication of JS’s Primula paper.
Delights in JS’s experimentation on Verbascum which confirms [C. F.] Gärtner’s statements.
Should be pleased if JS would accept offer of help.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 20 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4504G |
Matches: 7 hits
- … on several occasions (see letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 , and letter from John …
- … of non-dimorphic red cowslip seedlings in a letter dated 8 May 1864; the letter has not …
- … Scott, 5 May [1864] ). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 April [1864] and n. 4. …
- … between this letter and the letter from John Scott, 16 May [1864] , and by the reference …
- … been found (see letter from John Scott, 16 May [1864] and n. 4). The reference is to …
- … crosses to affinities in colour (see letter from John Scott, 16 May [1864] and n. 10). CD …
- … Society , p. vi). See letter from John Scott, 16 May [1864] and n. 9. CD refers to Karl …
To John Scott 9 April 1864
Summary
Regrets that JS has left the [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden and that [J. D.] Hooker is not in a position to secure a foreign appointment for him. Offers financial assistance on the grounds of science.
Has sent JS a copy of the Reader.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 9 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4458F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … 4 April 1864] , and letters to J. D. Hooker, …
- … In his letter of 10 March 1864 , Scott informed CD of his departure from his position as …
- … In a postscript to his letter of 28 March 1864 , Scott told CD that he had no definite …
- … 1864] and 7 April [1864] . Hooker’s letter of 6 April 1864 included a note, requested by …
- … any gardening job (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). See letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 7 April [1864] and n. 5. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 . CD may …
- … numerous experiments (see also letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] and nn. 3–5). …
- … times regarding Scott’s future (see letters from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] and [ …
To John Scott 21 May [1864]
Summary
Encloses an extract from a letter received from [J. D.] Hooker which suggests a job opportunity in India. Advises careful reflection about the risks and the need for a character recommendation. Would like to support the costs of the voyage and initial living expenses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 21 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4505F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 , and the letter from John Scott, 28 May [1864] . …
- … letter from John Scott, 2 August 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [16 August 1864] , …
- … of Joseph Dalton Hooker’s letter to CD of 19 May 1864 , in which he had offered to assist …
- … resignation in March (see letter from John Scott, 10 March 1864 ). For an indication of …
- … and McNab, see the letter from John Scott, 28 May [1864] . Without Scott’s knowledge, …
- … India in June (see second letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] ); this was the first of …
- … Disemma , and Tacsonia , and on Verbascum (see letters from John Scott , 5 May [1864] and …
- … abilities to Hooker ( see letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 and enclosure). CD gave …
- … 1864] ). Scott completed the first of these papers ( Scott 1864d ) before his departure, and worked on his Verbascum paper on the voyage (see Correspondence vol. 13, letters …
To John Scott 8 January [1864]
Summary
Glad correspondent’s paper went well.
Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 8 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13882 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … With his letter of 7 January [1864] , Scott included a note about a point …
- … of this letter to the letters from John Scott , 7 January [1864] and [13 January 1864] . …
- … manuscript of Scott 1864a (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and enclosure 1). …
- … See letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and nn. 12–14. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 9 January 1864
Summary
CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 9 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4383 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Society and it was read on 4 February 1864 (see letter to John Scott, 6 February [1864] ). …
- … In his letter of 7 January [1864] , Scott once more asked CD to look over the manuscript …
- … Scott 1864a ) (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 3). Scott had …
- … see enclosure 1 to the letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 5). CD planned to …
- … Society ( Botany ) (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 2). The secretary …
- … See letter to John Scott, 8 January [1864] . In December 1863, William Brinton , a …
To John Scott 9 February [1864]
Summary
Bentham so impressed with JS’s paper that he is invited to become Associate Member of Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 9 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B17–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4405 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … he sent it to the Linnean Society (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and nn. …
- … Scott for associateship in 1864 (see n. 6, above, and letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 …
- … dominions (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] and n. 3). Though …
- … 2–5). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 . George Bentham delivered …
- … Hooker (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] ). From 1861 onwards, the …
- … until 1866 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] and n. 3, and List …
- … each year (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] and n. 3). The 1862 …
- … residing in England (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 26[–8] October 1864 and n. 15). In …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343 |
Matches: 3 hits
To John Scott 6 February [1864]
Summary
JS’s Primula paper was read at the Linnean Society and praised warmly by G. Bentham. Hooker was not present.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 6 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4402 |
To John Scott 10 June 1864
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 10 June 1864 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4528 |
To John Scott 25 [July 1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to continue work on coloured primrose. No one has noticed this since Gärtner. CD will send his own data for JS’s use and will read MS when ready. Advises JS to repeat experiments if evidence is weak – for his reputation’s sake and for satisfaction at fully establishing a fact.
Treviranus made a slip of pen in writing of Primula longiflora as short-styled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 25 [July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B45–6, B69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4253 |
To John Scott 7 November [1863]
Summary
Has read JS’s paper [MS of "Observations on the functions and structure of the reproductive organs in the Primulaceae", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] which has interested him greatly. Will communicate it to the Linnean Society if JS carries out a few corrections.
Would like to hear about his Verbascum and Passiflora experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 7 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4332 |
To John Scott 2 May [1863]
Summary
Impressed by JS’s attempts to fertilise Gongora.
CD has large collection of notes on orchids, but does not know when he will publish on them again.
Asks for JS’s papers on sterility of individual orchids and on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 2 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4137 |
To John Scott 1 and 3 August [1863]
Summary
Thanks JS for orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50]. JS presents excellent new facts on sterility of orchids.
His argument that coloured primroses are not hybrids is good, as is idea of discovering primrose parentage by breeding for colours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 1 and 3 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B24, B27–8, B70; DAR 147: 455 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260 |
To John Scott 2 July [1863]
Summary
CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.
Thanks for Passiflora trials.
"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."
CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 2 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4229 |
To John Scott 6 June [1863]
Summary
CD has spoken to Hooker of JS’s scientific merit, but has not suggested him for a colonial appointment.
Advice on style of writing.
Making extensive extract of JS’s orchid paper to communicate to Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 6 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B38–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4206 |
To John Scott 8 January [1863]
Summary
CD’s respect for JS’s indomitable work and interesting experiments increases steadily.
His gratitude for the primulas and the astonishing Gongora specimen.
Asks JS’s opinion about crossing a primrose with the pollen of a wild cowslip and of a cultivated polyanthus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 8 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3908F |
To John Scott 19 December [1862]
Summary
JS should be proud of his paper ["Nature of the fern-spore", Edinburgh New. Philos. J. 2d ser. 16 (1862): 209–27].
CD has just found that JS’s observations on the confluence of two sexes causing variability were independently confirmed by Huxley.
CD has always suspected a fundamental difference between buds and ovules.
Asks for examples of "bud-variation" or "sports".
Asks JS to test germination of pollen on rostellum of Laelia.
Offers JS money for experimental supplies, e.g., netting, to keep insects out of flowers.
Encloses an outline of crossing experiments with Lythraceae, Primula, Pelargonium, and others, which he feels would be valuable.
Note on melastomids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B35–6, B64–5, B80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3868 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ); the observational notes from this work are preserved in DAR 27.2. CD’s paper, ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , was read before the Linnean Society of London on 16 June 1864. …
- … letters. Edited by Francis Darwin and Albert Charles Seward. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1903. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] …
To John Scott 3 December [1862]
Summary
JS’s facts on Primula are new to CD.
In Linum CD has also found dimorphic and non-dimorphic species.
Plans to publish next autumn on successive homomorphic generations in Primula.
"Fluctuating forms" due to culture.
Urges JS to publish.
Lobelia functionally monoecious.
Where did JS publish on Clivia hybrids? Did he count parent and cross seeds, as Gärtner shows is necessary?
CD has done large experiments on artificially fertilised cowslips. They never resemble oxlips.
Would welcome detailed criticism of natural selection by a careful observer like JS. Most criticism worthless. Expects a great deal from Lyell’s reaction.
Suggests JS do orchid experiment to see if rostellum can be penetrated by pollen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 3 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B60–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3844 |
Matches: 1 hit
To John Scott 25 and 28 May [1863]
Summary
CD does not think he could be wrong about the stigma of Bolbophyllum.
Will not write up Drosera for years.
Praises JS’s experiments. Invites him to send a paper to Linnean Society.
L. C. Treviranus says all species of Primula present two forms except P. longiflora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 25 and 28 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B41–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4185 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to CD of 21 May [1863] . Scott had been corresponding with CD on Primula since November 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). CD communicated Scott’s observations on dimorphic and ‘non-dimorphic’ species of Primula to the Linnean Society ( Scott 1864a ). The paper, which was read on 4 February 1864, …
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Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Darwin’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 …
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 …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine …
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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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
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 …
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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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Darwin 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 …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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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…
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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten …
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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- … < Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, …
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 …
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 …