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Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … articles Darwin had published on the topic between 1861 and 1868. Two related questions inform all …
- … of plants ’, Darwin told Ernst Haeckel in February 1868. The first of these, ‘On the character and …
- … read on 19 March. Both papers were published in the June 1868 issue of the Journal of the Linnean …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … ( Variation ). Although it was not published until 1868, all but the concluding chapter of the …
- … D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] ). When finally published in 1868, it filled two lengthy volumes, …
- … commentaries on Darwin’s theory, such as that of Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, were also influenced by …
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…
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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- … oxlip ( P. elatior ), and published his results in an 1868 article (‘Illegitimate offspring of …
