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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … by Cambridge University Press . Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth …
- … Darwin’s preoccupation with his own roots ran alongside a botanical interest in roots, as he and his …
- … to Francis Galton, 15 [June 1879] ). Even the prospect of a holiday in the Lake District in August …
- … Darwin, despite his many blessings, was finding old age ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry Johnson, …
- … old age, which creeps slily upon one, like moss upon a tree, and wrinkles one all over like a baked …
- … way round?’ At least the last letter of 1879 contained a warmer note and the promise of future …
- … old Darwin’s seventieth birthday on 12 February was a cause for international celebration. A …
- … but it was in Germany that Darwin was most fêted. A German bookkeeper and his wife sent birthday …
- … Hermann Müller wrote on 12 February to wish Darwin a ‘long and serene evening of life’. This …
- … of corrupting his students by reading them an extract from a materialist work by Carus Sterne …
- … , which had been founded in 1877 by Krause and others as a journal for presenting a uniform view of …
- … on Erasmus Darwin grabbed Darwin’s attention and provided a welcome break from his work on movement …
- … to publish an English translation of Krause’s essay as a short book. Delighted by Darwin’s proposal, …
- … Darwin’s life. Darwin, too, had started to consider adding a prologue, while his brother Erasmus …
- … & would please Francis’, he pointed out ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 13 March [1879 ]). …
- … searching for Seward’s memoir for Krause, Darwin reread a library copy and decided to refute the …
- … evolution prior to Erasmus Darwin, pointing out that Samuel Butler’s recent book, Evolution, old …
- … tastefully and well, and with little fatigue’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 ). Darwin’s …
- … and after Farrer’s second marriage to Darwin’s niece in 1873 the Darwins had stayed at the Farrers’ …
- … and his family to the Riviera for the summer ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 July 1879 ). Allen, who …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … spent completing Forms of flowers , his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the …
- … of bloom, each of these projects would culminate in a major publication. Darwin’s botany was …
- … by his engagement to Sara Sedgwick, an American from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The …
- … He returned to his alma mater in November to hear a Latin oration composed specially for the …
- … the fertility of individual flowers and plants across a range of common species, such as the …
- … pleases me.’. Darwin dedicated the book to Gray, ‘as a small tribute of respect and affection’. He …
- … to you.’ Drawing his separate publications together into a larger whole enabled Darwin to advance …
- … measure: ‘it might then be highly beneficial to [a plant] that the same flower or the same …
- … I believe it is of value, it is not likely that more than a few hundred copies w d . be sold’. His …
- … waxy coating on the leaves and fruit was, like dimorphism, a well-known botanical characteristic …
- … I am now going to continue my observations.’ He requested a large number of plants from Hooker on …
- … who wrote on 16 July , ‘assisting you is a relief in the general monotony of routine. I am …
- … plants prevents injury from salt-water—& I believe with a few prevents injury from pure water …
- … continue the observations. ‘I got out within 2 minutes of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on …
- … The drops seemed to stick closely to the leaves and required a tolerable shake’. Darwin gained …
- … tree) and Desmodium gyrans (telegraph plant). ‘He is a good fellow but nurses a private ambition …
- … 1877 ). At Down House, Darwin and Francis devised a method of recording leaf motion for …
- … over time: ‘Bristle was gummed to 1 Cot. & beyond it a triangular bit of card was fixed & in …
- … need such determination himself against a new critic, Samuel Butler. A strong supporter of Darwin in …
