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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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- … himself as ‘a broken-down brother-naturalist’, sent to Daniel Oliver, keeper of the herbarium at the …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] ). When Darwin asked Oliver whether the tendrils of …
- … than modified branches or leaves as most botanists thought, Oliver initially expressed reservations. …
- … routinists regard in the light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] ). Though …
Climbing plants
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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
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- … find nothing in any book which I have: neither Hooker nor Oliver knew anything of these movements ’ …
- … was incredulous. ‘As to tendrils, What are Hooker & Oliver (the latter a Professor too) …
- … climbers, this does not distress my weakened Brain— Ask Oliver to look over enclosed queries (& …
- … me if botanists wd let all tendrils be modified leaves’. Daniel Oliver, for example, insisted, …
- … dissecting and drawing. Darwin sent William’s drawing to Oliver, commenting, ‘ Does not this render …
- … between foliar and axial parts, which, however, Oliver admitted, sometimes ‘ shades off and is lost …
- … distinction. They are both axial.’ Only days later, Oliver apologised for the tone of his previous …
- … to find that I have a good deal of new matter ’. He told Oliver that Mohl, despite his book being …
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’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … a photograph as a token of esteem by a colleague, such as Daniel Oliver at Kew, the image became …
- … 1842, attributed to Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797–1867), Dar 225:129, ©Cambridge University …
- … Rejlander). These two images are the first – and, until 1867, the only – photographs Darwin was …
- … requests he was receiving for copies of his photograph. In 1867, he was approached by a photographer …
- … was an increase in the number of images he sent out between 1867 and 1869. For example, when …
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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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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- … evidence and renewing contact with correspondents such as Daniel Oliver, Friedrich Hildebrand, Fritz …
- … blending and swamped within a larger population ([Jenkin] 1867). Darwin had addressed this criticism …
- … not give up Pangenesis with wicked imprecations’ (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 …
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…
