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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
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 …
- … be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
- … him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
- … Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
- … but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
- … but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
- … him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
- … is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
- … with his study of Primula and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
- … 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
- … in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
- … telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
- … great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
- … labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
- … of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
- … sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
- … case he determined to experiment on Linum in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
- … be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
- … Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
- … who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
- … [1862] ). However, his confidence was ill-founded. He told Hugh Falconer, who wondered when he …
- … trembling; that I dread coming up to London’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 14 November [1862] ). …
- … was the paper sent to Darwin by one of Owen’s adversaries, Hugh Falconer, concerning the fossil and …
- … blackguard friend of yours and mine’ ( see letter from Hugh Falconer, 24–7 September [1862] ). …
- … rubbish’, the ‘frame-work’ would stand ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] ). As he put it …
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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- … marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend of Darwin’s and …
- … and discussed them in their letters. The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter …
- … tone was enthusiastic and energetic. However, on 31 January, Hugh Falconer died after a sudden …
- … person (see Correspondence vol. 12). In early January Falconer had written to Darwin’s brother, …
- … to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin, …
- … content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] ). …
- … a bout of influenza, wrote to Darwin at some length about Falconer’s life and death, concluding …
- … ). Darwin, now ‘haunted’ by Hooker’s account of Falconer’s last sufferings, responded with an …
- … on Verbascum. Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
- … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
- … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
- … vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …
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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- … ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh Falconer was also preparing a …
- … ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Falconer published his criticisms in a letter in …
- … Darwin and Hooker repeatedly exchanged regrets about Falconer’s action towards Lyell, with Darwin …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). Falconer and Owen were already engaged in a …
- … discovered fossil elephant should have priority. When Falconer’s account of the elephant appeared in …
- … Owen following his 1860 review of Origin , wrote to Falconer: ‘You would laugh, if you could have …
- … and I shall watch for a fitting opportunity’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ) …
- … Owen, as a punishment for his crimes… ?’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] , and …
- … transitional form between reptiles and birds ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] ). …
- … gap had been filled in the fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). …
- … work on mimicry in butterflies, which had been published in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). …
- … to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury in September 1862 ( see letter to Julius von Haast, 22 …
- … criticisms from supporters or near-supporters of his theory. Hugh Falconer suggested that a ‘law of …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 May [1863] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, [25–6 August 1863] ). …
- … men, given at the Museum of Practical Geology at the end of 1862, and published as a book in early …
- … that had already occupied much of his time in 1861 and 1862. With the publication in 1862 of his …
- … a question he had been struggling with in 1861 and 1862; he wanted to determine experimentally …
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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- … thus completing the work he had started on the genus in 1862. His varied botanical observations and …
- … act. In his ongoing quest to confirm the statement in his 1862 book on orchids that nature ‘abhors …
- … Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1862 with a letter regarding the …
- … to any thing from him except á la Darwin!’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] ). The …
- … and Book of Joshua critically examined (Colenso 1862–79). After reading extracts from Colenso’s …
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). A declaration that Erasmus …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 September 1864] ). When Hugh Falconer noted that the award of the …
- … as the latest ‘outburst of bigotry’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 8 November [1864] ). …
- … descent than he had the previous year, particularly when Hugh Falconer suggested in his letter of …
- … IV). With the help of supporters on the Council, including Hugh Falconer and George Busk, who had …
- … had taken so much interest on his behalf ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 4 November [1864] ). …
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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- … uses the words of Jane Loring Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hugh Falconer, Louis Agassiz, Adam …
- … in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
- … cause. Tension. THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
- … 1856 33 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34 JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
- … 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
- … 10 JUNE 1861 121 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … Falconers remark on the influence of climate [W. Falconer 1781] [DAR *119: 2v.] …
- … on Sewalik Fossils in 1842 [Cautley 1840 and Cautley and Falconer 1840] The Haras. Vet. Journ …
- … 1840] Proceedings of Agricult. Soc of India. 1838. Falconer says Royle will probably have it …
- … du rire. In–8. A. Durand . 3 fr. 117 [Dumont 1862] Goethe. — Œuvres d’histoires …
- … 9. 10. 11. 12. (1843). not much except Blyth. Aug 11. Falconer on Tenasserim Forests [H. …
- … [Lamb 1837] July 18 th Schools & Schoolmasters by Hugh Miller [H. Miller 1854] …
- … arranged to borrow copies of this rare journal from Royle. Hugh Falconer was in London at this time. …
- … this entry with ‘O’ in pencil. 103 Hugh Cuming. John Gould Anthony published …
- … 292–304. *119: 16v. Cautley, Proby T. and Falconer, Hugh. 1840. Notice on the remains of …
- … à Buffon.) Paris. *119: 14v. Dumont, Léon. 1862. Des causes du rire. Paris. *128: …
- … . Padua. [Other eds.] *119: 12v. Falconer, Hugh. 1852. Report on the teak forests of …
- … 1859. On liberty . London. 128: 25 Miller, Hugh. 1841. The Old Red Sandstone; or, …
