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Frank Chance
Summary
The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
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- … edited two letters from the physiologist and Hebrew scholar Frank Chance (1826–97). The first is …
- … pigeon-fancier W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 April [1871] . In his letter Chance is responding to the …
- … of a lighter tint, being often reddish. Chance held himself up as an exception to this …
- … from my hair & another from my beard & whiskers. (Letter from Frank Chance, [before …
- … was given to personal adornments’), CD annotated the letter with what was probably a draft of the …
- … very rare. When we were editing volume 19 (1871), Chance’s enclosure of beard and scalp …
- … in the winter but has actually turned \quite white\ (Letter from Frank Chance, 31 July–7 …
- … the same package were the beautifully preserved samples of Chance’s beard and scalp hair. CD …
- … case that CD had observed on 13 May 1871. William’s letter of 5 June 1871 reported the forest …
- … from his penchant for hair, we do not know much else about Frank Chance. A very short obituary …
Strange things sent to Darwin in the post
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Some of the stranger things Darwin received in the post can tell us a lot about how Darwin worked at home. In 1863, Darwin was very excited when the ornithologist Alfred Newton sent him a diseased, red-legged partridge foot with an enormous ball of clay…
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…
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- … had considered combining the works in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, 7 February 1875 ). …
- … of the investigation as he revealed to Thiselton-Dyer, ‘ Frank & I are working very hard on …
- … will yield uncommonly little if any fruit. … I think Frank will do some good work on bloom & …
- … , a plant that exhibited all three types of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July …
- … optimism and doubt, telling his daughter Henrietta, ‘ Frank & I have been working very hard at …
- … ’. He confirmed this view to Hooker, ‘ From what Frank & I have seen, I think we shall be able …
- … He told his American friend Asa Gray, ‘ My son Frank & I have been observing the autonomous …
- … leaves, for I have pretty well done with cotyledons. Alas Frank is off tomorrow to Wurzburg, & …
- … the woodblock using photography for scientific accuracy ( letter from J. D. Cooper, 13 December …
- … lost colour, withered, and died within a couple of days ( letter from A. F. Batalin, 28 February …
- … how their observations could have been so much at odds ( letter to Hugo de Vries 13 February 1879 …
- … the botanist Gaetano Durando, to find plants and seeds ( letter to Francis Darwin, [4 February – 8 …
- … Stahl also spoke favourably about another researcher Albert Frank, who like Darwin, looked at plant …
- … he thought, echoed what he had ‘ long been saying ’. Frank had proposed that there were special …
- … only the regulator & not cause of movement ’. In the same letter, Darwin discussed terminology, …
- … Darwin’s son William in February 1880, probably to replace Frank’s ‘Transversal-Heliotropismus’ ( …
- … experiments and devised a new test, which he described in a letter to his mother, ‘ I did some …
- … and it appeared in 1880 (F. Darwin 1880b). In the same letter, Francis revealed the frustration of …
- … on holiday in the Lake District, Darwin received a long letter from De Vries detailing his latest …
- … described as ‘little discs’ and ‘greenish bodies’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 October 1879 …
- … of cotton that he had not been able to observe earlier ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 …
- … might have been too weak to lift the weight of the seed ( letter from Asa Gray, 3 February 1880 ). …
- … germination occurred, the plant would be killed by frost ( letter from Asa Gray, 4 April 1880 ). …
- … Plants’ or ‘The Nature of the Movements of Plants’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 23 April [1880] ). …
- … Phytographie (A. de Candolle 1880). In his letter of thanks for the book, Darwin promised to send …
- … for advice about the number of copies they should print ( letter to John Murray, 10 July 1880 ). …
- … well, noting, ‘ instead of losing 1 or 2 hundred pound, Frank & I shall make a few pounds ’. …
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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- … ‘I feel a very old man, & my course is nearly run’ ( letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 ) …
- … fertility of crosses between differently styled plants ( letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1882 …
- … François Marie Glaziou (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 20 …
- … quite untirable & I am glad to shirk any extra labour’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 6 January …
- … probably intending to test its effects on chlorophyll ( letter to Joseph Fayrer, 30 March 1882 ). …
- … we know about the life of any one plant or animal!’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). He …
- … of seeing the flowers & experimentising on them’ ( letter to J. E. Todd, 10 April 1882 ). …
- … find stooping over the microscope affects my heart’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). …
- … sooner or later write differently about evolution’ ( letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 ). The …
- … leaves into their burrows ( Correspondence vol. 29, letter from J. F. Simpson, 8 November 1881 …
- … on the summit, whence it rolls down the sides’ ( letter from J. F. Simpson, 7 January 1882 ). The …
- … light on it, which would have pleased me greatly’ ( letter from J. H. Gilbert, 9 January 1882, …
- … annelid seemed to have rather the best of the fight’ ( letter from G. F. Crawte, 11 March 1882 ). …
- … by the American educator Emily Talbot (Talbot ed. 1882). His letter to Talbot written the previous …
- … by the flippant witlings of the newspaper press’ ( letter from A. T. Rice, 4 February 1882 ). Rice …
- … men, and their role as providers for the family. In his letter, he conceded that there was ‘some …
- … of our homes, would in this case greatly suffer’ ( letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ). …
- … she be fairly judged, intellectually his inferior, please ( letter from C. A. Kennard, 28 January …
- … he has allied himself to so dreadful a man, as Huxley’ ( letter to John Collier, 16 February 1882 …
- … Would my actions be the same without my consciousness?’ ( letter from John Collier, 22 February …
- … a solid scientific foundation cannot be overestimated’ ( letter to William Jenner, 20 March [1882] …
- … Darwin to consult another physician. ‘Ever since I met Frank at the Linnean,’ he wrote, ‘I have been …
- … you yourself to skin birds for me, & I fear there is little chance of your being able to find …
- … just six months before his death, Lyell was remarkably frank to his old friend: I have been …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … old, smiled, but certainly not from pleasure, but merely a chance movement of muscles, without a …
- … our door N o 12 and N o 11 is in the slit for the Letter box.— he decidedly ran past N o 11 …
- … has learned them from my sometimes changing the first letter in any word he is using—thus I say …
- … at my working time, when he knew there was very little chance of my coming out, & said “Well …
- … , pp. 131–2. [6] Correspondence vol. 2, letter from Emma Wedgwood, [23 January 1839] . …
- … is given. [57] Emma Darwin’s brother Francis (Frank) Wedgwood lived at Etruria Hall, …
