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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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  • … about where he could publish his opus. The Journal of the Linnean Society seemed the obvious …
  • … him, ‘ Bentham craves your paper however long—for the Linnean, & so do I ’. A more relaxed …
  • … paper was long, but an excerpt from it was read by the secretary of the Linnean Society, Frederick
  • … on 12 June 1865 in a double issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ). In spite …
  • … for publication and appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) in November …