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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's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … in this botanical research, eventually renouncing plans for a medical career to become his father’s …
- … and he was clearly delighted by Francis’s decision. A large portion of the letters Darwin …
- … occasional criticisms, some of which were incorporated in a later edition. Darwin also contributed …
- … in science were manifest in his leading roles in creating a private memorial fund for Thomas Henry …
- … the main focus of Darwin’s study of insectivorous plants, a group that also included the Venus fly …
- … and even electrical stimulation. On sending Darwin a specimen of the carnivorous Drosophyllum …
- … tentacles to bend inward, so that the plant closed like a fist. Darwin was fascinated by this …
- … seemed analogous to muscular contraction in animals: “a nerve is touched … a sensation is felt” ( …
- … assistance of William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, was engaged in a taxonomic study of the pitcher plant, …
- … on plant movement and digestion led him to seek help from a different quarter, experimental …
- … Emanuel Klein at the Brown Animal Sanatory Institution, a centre of medical research in London. On …
- … Handbook ‘s other contributors, Thomas Lauder Brunton, a specialist in pharmacology, and John Scott …
- … had known effects on animals. To test whether the plants had a nerve-like structure, Darwin …
- … delivered to the Brown Institution. Burdon Sanderson used a galvanometer (a device for detecting and …
- … fly at the Empr’s throat like a bulldog” ( letter from L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield, 20 …
