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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … to make out this wonderfully complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three …
- … the structure of almost every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I …
- … to wait. ‘It is a very extraordinary book!’, wrote Daniel Oliver on 14 May, and George Bentham …
- … a new era in the science’ (A. Gray 1862b, p. 429). Oliver joined in the chorus, telling him: ‘Your …
- … & most promising direction to our studies’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 May 1862 ). Darwin …
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 …
- … oxlip ( P. elatior ), and published his results in an 1868 article (‘Illegitimate offspring of …
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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- … The variation of animals and plants under domestication in 1868. In 1862 he had read a ‘Note on …
- … 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 in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … leaves, asking the professional botanists Gray, Hooker, and Daniel Oliver for references on …
- … the family, to explaining the phenomenon ( see letter from Daniel Oliver, 17 February 1863 , …
- … Primula crosses, the results of which were published in 1868 ( see letter to John Scott, 25 and …
- … months. However, the two-volume work was not published until 1868. Roping in the family …
Orchids
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Why Orchids? Darwin wrote in his Autobiography, ‘During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross-fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, from having come to the conclusion in my…
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- … works appeared before Variation was finally published in 1868. The first of the ‘interruptions’ …
- … that of a more traditional botanist like Hooker. Writing to Daniel Oliver in October 1860, Darwin …
- … sexes in Catasetum and Myanthus . In a letter to Daniel Oliver in December 1861, Darwin …
- … Sales were slow, but the book had a positive reception. Daniel Oliver, who was professor of botany …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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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 …
- … meaning of the dimorphism ’. Two months later, he told Daniel Oliver, ‘ I am surprised to find …
- … he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has two sets of …
- … 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’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 …
- … in various locations around the UK. In the summer of 1868 the photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron …
- … made by Ernest Edwards. Image: Charles Darwin, 1868, Julia Margaret Cameron, Dar 225:139, …
- … Image: Charles Darwin on his horse ‘Tommy’, 1868, Leonard Darwin, Dar 225:116, ©Cambridge University …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … Dispatches [Wellesley 1834–9] Carlyles Oliver Cromwell [Carlyle 1845] (read) Keppells( …
- … 1851]. Packard. A Guide to the Study of Insects 1868. U. States [Packard 1868–9] (an …
- … 1837–8]— read aloud April 12 th . Carlyles Oliver Cromwell [Carlyle 1845] May 5. Ray …
- … . London. [Other eds.] 119: 13b ——. 1845. Oliver Cromwell’s letters and speeches: with …
- … 142–214. *119: 21v.; 119: 18a Clarke, Edward Daniel. 1810–23. Travels in various …
- … . 9 vols. Paris. *128: 169 Defoe, Daniel. 1719. The life and strange surprizing …
- … London. *119: 23, 24; 128: 5 Ekmarck, Carl Daniel. 1781. On the migration of birds. In …
- … G. H. Hodson. London. 128: 25 Hofacker, Johann Daniel. 1828. Ueber die Eigenschaften …
- … Illustrated Library.) London. *128: 157 Johnson, Daniel. 1822. Sketches of field sports …
- … 2 vols. London. 119: 5a Packard, Alpheus Spring. 1868–9. Guide to the study of …
- … *119: 4v.; 119: 13a Wilcke, Henricus Christianus Daniel. 1781. On the police of nature. In …
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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- … and trimorphism that he had written between 1861 and 1868 and presented to the Linnean Society of …
- … evidence and renewing contact with correspondents such as Daniel Oliver, Friedrich Hildebrand, Fritz …
- … Charles Norton, had stayed at Keston Rectory near Down in 1868 and had visited Down House. Darwin …
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, …
- … when the young daughter of Hooker’s colleague at Kew, Daniel Oliver, died suddenly. ‘How grieved I …
