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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,…
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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- … evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost …
- … (1875) and Cross and self fertilisation (1876). Darwin’s son Francis became increasingly …
- … the previous year. As was typical, readers wrote to Darwin personally to offer suggestions, …
- … 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” ( …
- … plant could be said “to feed like an animal” ( ibid ., p.18). The research on insectivorous …
- … 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 …
- … fly at the Empr’s throat like a bulldog” ( letter from L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield, 20 …
- … without instruction or previously acquired knowledge” (A. R. Wallace 1870, p. 204). Moggridge …
- … believes whether or not they are sound” ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 November 1873 ). But no …
- … unorthodoxy, troubling and potentially undermining (J. R. Moore 1985, pp. 471–2). A courted …
- … must rest contented with past memories” ( letter to A. A. L. P. Cochrane, [after 7 June 1873] ). …
- … a personification of Natural Filosofy” ( letter from J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes, 18 March 1873 …
