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List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
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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- … chlorophyll by examining thin slices of plant tissue under a microscope. When not experimenting, he …
- … in February he began to feel more weak than usual. To Lawson Tait, he remarked, ‘I feel a very old …
- … early April, he was being carried upstairs with the aid of a special chair. The end came on 19 April …
- … 1881. But some of his scientific friends quickly organised a campaign for Darwin to have greater …
- … the nature of their contents, if immersed for some hours in a weak solution of C. of Ammonia’. …
- … up the results on Brazilian cane, with Darwin providing a detailed outline: ‘I had no intention to …
- … ( letter to Joseph Fayrer, 30 March 1882 ). He received a specimen of Nitella opaca , a species …
- … centipedes, and spiders. The instructions were from Charles Lawrence Hughes, a fellow pupil of …
