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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 …
- … plants (1875) and Cross and self fertilisation (1876). Darwin’s son Francis became …
- … renouncing plans for a medical career to become his father’s scientific secretary. Darwin had always …
- … the previous year. As was typical, readers wrote to Darwin personally to offer suggestions, …
- … some of which were incorporated in a later edition. Darwin also contributed to discussions in the …
- … The subject was brought closer to home by Francis Galton’s work on inherited talent, which prompted …
- … efforts to alleviate the financial troubles of Anton Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. …
- … 12 January [1873] ). Drosera was the main focus of Darwin’s study of insectivorous plants, a …
- … properties analogous to those in Drosera . Darwin’s experiments on plant movement and digestion …
- … had co-authored. Darwin contacted two of the Handbook ‘s other contributors, Thomas Lauder …
- … solution to Frankland for analysis. Following Frankland’s advice, he performed his own tests and …
- … enzyme. Cross- and self-fertilisation Darwin’s other main focus of botanical …
- … 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 …
- … “I’m to starve sweat & purge it away” ( letter from G. H. Darwin, [1 October 1873] ). He also …
- … some little happiness & enjoyment in life” ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 5 March [1873] ). Darwin …
- … “It is a good omen for the future” ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 2 August [1873] ). But he was more …
- … world his opinions on the deepest subjects?” ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 October [1873] ). Darwin …
- … into difficulties, however, with the vicar, George Sketchley Ffinden, who had been appointed in 1871 …
- … “most strongly on public grounds” ( letter from G. S. Ffinden to Emma Darwin, 24 December 1873 ). …
- … unorthodoxy, troubling and potentially undermining (J. R. Moore 1985, pp. 471–2). A courted …
- … a personification of Natural Filosofy” ( letter from J. C. Costerus and N. D. Doedes, 18 March 1873 …
