From Asa Gray 26 March 1867
Summary
Has printed copies of CD’s queries [on expression] and will distribute them.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5462 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From Asa Gray 26 March 1867 …
- … DAR 165: 157 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 26 Mar 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … also letter from Thomas Belt, 12 January 1867 and n. 5. See n. 2, above. Gray sent the …
- … Fullerton Baird (see letter from J. T. Rothrock to Asa Gray, 31 March 1867 and n. …
- … 1, and letter from George Gibbs, 31 March 1867 ). CD’s annotations are …
- … notes for his letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] . …
- … Cambridge [Massachusetts] 26 th March, 1867 Dear Darwin This is to acknowledge yours of …
- … with his letter to Gray of 28 February 1867 ; neither the questionnaire nor the letter …
- … the Smithsonian Institution … for the year 1867 , p. 324, under the title ‘Queries about …
- … article, ‘Popularizing science’ (Anon. 1867), to CD after it had been sent to him by …
- … Gray had written it (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] ). Gray probably refers …
- … to a paragraph in the Nation , 7 March 1867, p. 182, reporting on a lecture of Louis …
From Asa Gray 18 November 1867
Summary
Is reading sheets of Variation.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5682 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Asa Gray 18 November 1867 …
- … DAR 165: 159 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 18 Nov 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1867] and n. 9. Gray refers to Jeffries Wyman . The …
- … Cambridge Mass, Nov. 18, 1867 My Dear Darwin I was rejoiced by your favor of Oct. 16, …
- … to Gray with his letter of 16 October [1867] . Signature Y was pages 321 to 336 of the …
- … 15–48). In his letter to Gray, 16 October [1867] , CD wrote that Variation ended with a ‘ …
- … quoted and disagreed with Gray. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] , n. 7. …
To Asa Gray 16 October [1867]
Summary
Sends sheets of first volume of Variation.
Transport of seeds in locust dung.
Pangenesis will be called "a mad dream".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5649 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Asa Gray 16 October [1867] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (95) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Oct [1867] Asa Gray …
- … letter from Asa Gray, [after 17 September 1867] . CD refers to proof-sheets of Variation. …
- … see letter from Asa Gray, [after 17 September 1867] and n. 2). The Nation was intended to …
- … Canby’s letter in a letter of 8 August [1867] . Evidently, Gray sent further observations, …
- … locust dung with his letter of 7 July 1867 . In his reply to Weale, CD had been doubtful …
- … see letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 August [1867] ). See Origin , p. 363. CD reported the …
- … see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] , n. 7. See letter from Asa Gray …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [after 6 July 1867] . Gray enclosed a letter from William Marriott …
To Asa Gray 15 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for his trouble about expression queries; wishes he had thought earlier of having them printed.
Is "plodding on" correcting Variation
and getting "a little amusement" from plant experiments. Oxalis is trimorphic like Lythrum.
Is continuing his experiments on seedling vigour.
Has heard hybrid potatoes can be produced by joining halves of different tubers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5442 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Asa Gray 15 April [1867] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (97) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Apr [1867] Asa Gray …
- … and the letter from Asa Gray, 26 March 1867 . Gray had had copies of CD’s questionnaire on …
- … to CD (see letter from Asa Gray, 26 March 1867 ). CD may have begun sending out a standard …
- … out a number of questionnaires in February 1867. CD did not send questionnaires to George …
- … See letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 . CD mentioned Trail’s information in Variation …
- … to Joseph Dalton Hooker ; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 April 1867 . CD revised the …
- … proofs of Variation between March and November 1867 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD and …
To Asa Gray 8 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for sending W. M. Canby’s letter on Dionaea. Although already familiar with the facts concerning the secretions, the letter "fires me up to complete and publish on Drosera, Dionæa, etc."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | J. L. Gray ed. 1893, 2: 557 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5602A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Asa Gray 8 August [1867] …
- … J. L. Gray ed. 1893, 2: 557 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Aug [1867] Asa Gray …
- … the letter from Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker, [after 6 July 1867] . CD refers to a letter …
- … Marriott Canby to Asa Gray of 6 July 1867 , in which Canby described his experiments with …
- … Gray to J. D. Hooker, [after 6 July 1867] ). See Insectivorous plants , p. 296. Most of …
From Joseph Trimble Rothrock to Asa Gray 31 March 1867
Summary
Answers to CD’s questions on expressions among the Atnah and Espyox Indians of Nass River [see Expression, pp. 22, 232, 252, 260].
Discusses the debate in America over the relationship among Indian tribes. JTR does not believe Indians are all of one race; they are as varied as Europeans.
[Forwarded to CD by Asa Gray.]
| Author: | Joseph Trimble Rothrock |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5478 |
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- … From Joseph Trimble Rothrock to Asa Gray 31 March 1867 …
- … DAR 176: 218 Joseph Trimble Rothrock McVeytown, Pa. 31 Mar 1867 Asa Gray …
- … as a part of Descent (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 26 February [1867] and nn. 5 and 6). …
- … to Asa Gray with a letter of 28 February 1867 , but that letter has not been found ( …
- … see letter from Asa Gray, 26 March 1867 ). …
- … In his letter of 26 March 1867 , Gray told CD that he recently had fifty copies of the …
- … M c Veytown [Pennsylvania] Mch 31 st 1867 My Dear Doctor Some of Mr Darwins questions I …
From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1867
Summary
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: A81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5387 |
Matches: 4 hits
From J. T. Rothrock to Asa Gray 22 August 1867
Summary
The two names CD could not read are "Atnah" and "Espyox" [see 5478].
He and George Thurber would like CD’s autograph.
| Author: | Joseph Trimble Rothrock |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 Aug 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5613 |
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- … From J. T. Rothrock to Asa Gray 22 August 1867 …
- … DAR 176: 219 Joseph Trimble Rothrock New York 22 Aug 1867 Asa Gray …
- … New York Aug 22 nd 1867 Dear Doctor The names which Mr Darwin is in doubt about are the …
- … J. T. Rothrock to Asa Gray, 31 March 1867 and n. 2). The Nass river of western British …
From Asa Gray [after 17 September 1867]
Summary
AG has promised to review CD’s new book [Variation] for the Nation [forwards a letter from E. L. Godkin of the Nation to this effect] and wonders if he might have sheets a little in advance.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 17 Sept 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5636 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker [after 6 July 1867]
Summary
Sends W. M. Canby’s observations on the carnivorous powers of Dionaea. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 301, 310, 313.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [after 6 July 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 16–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5580 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker [after 6 July 1867] …
- … DAR 58.1: 16–17 Asa Gray unstated [after 6 July 1867] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … make. A. G. Wilmington [Del. ] July 6 th 1867 Dear Dr. Gray, Dr. Engelmann has sent me …
- … of the northern United States (A. Gray [1867]). Engelmann worked on the genus Isoetes for …
From Asa Gray 14 January [1868]
Summary
Has read sheets of Variation up to Pangenesis.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5786 |
To Asa Gray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5851F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 15, letter from Asa Gray, 26 March 1867 ). Rothrock had already recorded answers to …
- … Columbia in his letter to Gray of 31 March 1867 ( Correspondence vol. 15). Expression was …
- … see n. 6, below). Gray’s letter of August 1867 has not been found, but he had probably …
- … J. T. Rothrock to Asa Gray, 22 August 1867 ( Correspondence vol. 15), which gave Joseph …
To Asa Gray 20 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for information about Hottonia.
Has found dimorphism in Forsythia.
Considers AG’s arguments on different terms for dimorphism, but cannot change to using the proposed new term [see 10699].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (116) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10728 |
From Asa Gray 7 August 1866
Summary
Appleton’s will not print a new edition of Origin.
AG has read sheets of new English edition [4th] and is much pleased by the passage on Richard Owen in the historical sketch.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5184 |
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- … of Gray’s Manual of the botany of the northern United States was published in 1867 ( A. …
- … Gray 1867 ). Dimerous: i.e. : with two members in each part or whorl. Flowers of …
- … spontaneous generation (see Wyman 1862 and 1867). Gray had previously defended Wyman as an …
- … and Arts 2d ser. 42: 195. Gray, Asa. 1867. Manual of the botany of the northern United …
From Asa Gray 31 May 1872
Summary
Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8363 |
To Asa Gray 8 January 1873
Summary
Has received, through AG, a letter on Dionaea [from W. M. Canby] which has greatly interested him. CD asks AG to question his correspondent on whether it catches large or small insects.
Mary Treat will observe Drosera filiformis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8728 |
To Asa Gray 8 May [1868]
Summary
AG’s review of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6] very good.
CD’s fondness for Pangenesis; although an "infant cherished by few", CD expects it to have a long life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (94) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6167 |
To Asa Gray 29 October [1864]
Summary
Sends question [missing] for an ornithologist.
Is plodding on at Variation.
Has added to Climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 29 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (88) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4647 |
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865
Summary
Reports Lincoln’s murder.
The end of Civil War is in sight.
Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 and 17 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4833 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Rothrock, J. T. | (2) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
| Wright, Charles | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (22) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Rothrock, J. T. | (2) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
| Wright, Charles | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
Summary
Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
Matches: 30 hits
- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
- … publisher in the final week of 1866. It would take all of 1867 to correct proofs, and just when …
- … becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in 1867, as he continued to circulate a list of …
- … transmutation theory. Three important new correspondents in 1867 were Hermann Müller and Anton Dohrn …
- … the New Year’s greeting, ‘may you be eupeptic through 1867 & your friends & the world in …
- … publisher, John Murray, he wrote to Murray on 3 January 1867 , ‘I cannot tell you how sorry I am …
- … for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] ). A week later, Darwin had …
- … the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867] to his close friend, Joseph …
- … Darwin’s time. The first proof-sheets arrived on 1 March 1867 and the tedious work of correction …
- … . In a letter to his son William dated 27 [March 1867] , he admitted, ‘I fear the book is by no …
- … papers with his first letter to Darwin of 15 March 1867 , although he described some of Alexander …
- … told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send stereotypes of the …
- … had received other offers, notably one from Vogt in April 1867, to translate the new work. Carus had …
- … will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This hint of uncertainty caused …
- … to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). Darwin need not have worried …
- … to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). Darwin may not have fully …
- … in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867] ). Darwin was not disappointed in …
- … the ‘wonderful discovery’ to Darwin on 14 March 1867 . Then, in April, Robert Trail wrote from …
- … in a mottled hybrid ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 ). Darwin told his American friend …
- … physiological fact’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Although he did not succeed in …
- … step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). Darwin’s insecurity persisted, …
- … ferocity’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] ). Even when the corrections were …
- … to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). Dallas resisted the temptation to …
- … as I could wish’ (letter from W. S. Dallas, 20 November 1867). Dallas, like Carus, alerted Darwin to …
- … for information on Fuegian expressions. On 11 January 1867, Sulivan replied , enclosing belated …
- … 27 years old In a letter of 22 February [1867] to Fritz Müller in Brazil, in which …
- … Russel Wallace, who suggested in his response of 11 March [1867] that Darwin send his queries to …
- … ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [12–17] March [1867] ). Darwin’s doggedness in pursuing answers to his …
- … so do not want any more’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Nevertheless, at some point …
- … in Notes and Queries on China and Japan , 31 August 1867. Another version, possibly derived from …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Matches: 27 hits
- … expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to …
- … Barber, Mary E. [after Feb 1867] [Grahamstown, Cape …
- … Bowker, J.H. [10 Dec 1867] [Cape of Good Hope (South …
- … Bowman, William 5 Aug 1867 5 Clifford St, London, …
- … Darwin, Francis 20 June 1867 Unknown? …
- … Erskine, H. N. B. 1 Nov 1867 [Ahmednuggur, Bombay, …
- … Gaika, Christian 7 July 1867 Bedford [Cape of Good …
- … Geach, F.F. June 1867 Johore, Malaysia …
- … Gibbs, George 31 March 1867 Smithsonian Institution, …
- … Gray, Asa 26 March 1867 Cambridge, Massachusetts, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Hagenauer, F.A. [12 Sept 1867] Lake Wellington, …
- … Huxley, H.A. 22 Mar [1867] Abbey Place, London, …
- … Kempson, L.F. 20 June 1867 Penmaenmawr, Conway, …
- … Lubbock, E.F. [1867-8?] Lombard Street, London? …
- … Muller, Fritz 22 Feb [1867] Down, Kent, England …
- … Paget, James 9 July 1867 1 Harewood Place, Hanover …
- … Rothrock, J.T. 31 March 1867 McVeytown [Pennsylvania …
- … Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
- … Sutton, Seth 8 Aug 1867 Zoological Gardens, Regents …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 5 Aug 1867 Amoy, China …
- … Wallace, A. R. 2 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent, …
- … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
- … Weale, J.P.M. 7 July 1867 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
- … Weale, J.P.M. [10 Dec 1867] Bedford, Cape of Good …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … a series of experiments, reporting back to Bornet in August 1867 that all but one of the varieties …
- … ( To Fritz Müller, [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867 ). The following year, his experiments …
- … to the conditions that might affect his results. In March 1867, he told his close friend Joseph …
- … two distinct plants’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] ). He noted another factor in a letter to …
- … & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was …
- … for part of the year ( To J. T. Moggridge, 1 October [1867] ). Darwin was beginning to suspect …
A fly on the flower: From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1867
Summary
In March 1867, Hermann Müller, a young teacher of natural sciences at a provincial Realschule (a type of secondary school that emphasised the natural sciences) in Lippstadt in the Prussian province of Westphalia, sent Darwin two papers on the mosses of…
John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to Darwin, [after February 1867] Mary Barber responds to …
- … Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin asks his niece, …
- … Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 August 1867] Sutton, the keeper of the …
- … 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] Explorer and geologist Haast …
- … Letter 5585 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [26 July 1867] Darwin praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 5403 - Darwin to Carus, J. V. [17 February 1867] Darwin thanks Carus for his …
- … 5410 - Darwin to Muller, J. F. T., [22 February 1867] Darwin thanks Muller for …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 5605: Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. F. T., 15 Aug [1867] Darwin asks Fritz Müller, a …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … 1865 Letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 August [1867] Letter from J P. M. Weale, [10 …
Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
A tale of two bees
Summary
Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…
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- … much ahead of his time when, in a letter to Darwin in 1867 , he commented on Edward Wilson’s plan …
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
Sexual selection
Summary
Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Letter 5457 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Mar 1867 Müller explains how Origin …
- … 5471 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, H. L. H., 29 Mar [1867] Darwin learns that German botanist …
- … Letter 5481 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 1 Apr [1867] Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5657 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Oct 1867 Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5585 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, H. E., 26 July [1867] Darwin writes to his daughter …
- … Letter 5745 — Barber, M. E. to Darwin, C. R., [after Feb 1867] In this letter, naturalist, …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
Controversy
Summary
The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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Religion
Summary
Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … A GRAY 15 AUGUST 1868 177 TO A GRAY 15 APRIL 1867 178 C DARWIN TO JD …
