To J. D. Hooker [11–12 July 1845]
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A son [George Howard Darwin] was born on Wednesday.
Sends queries on Galapagos flora.
Discusses JDH’s comments on [Journal of researches].
CD feels that with his views on descent "really Nat. Hist. becomes a sublimely grand result-giving subject".
"How differently people view the same subject, for I look at insular Floras … as leading to an opposite view to yours."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [11–12 July 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 36, 100: 43–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-889 |
From G. R. Waterhouse [11 July 1845]
Summary
Notes the islands, where known, on which CD’s Galapagos beetles were found. Remarks that in none of the species whose place of origin is known, does he have specimens from more than one island.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 July 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-890 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Home learning: 7-11 years
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Darwin’s earthquakes
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Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
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Learning Resources
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This section contains learning resources for the following: Ages 7-11 Ages 11-14 Universities There is also an interactive timeline aimed at schools.
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Six things Darwin never said – and one he did
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Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly attributed to Darwin that never flowed from his pen.
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Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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4.27 'Four founders of Darwinismus'
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< Back to Introduction In 1869-70 Darwin had declined to be photographed with Alfred Russel Wallace for a German publication, whose author had intended to show them as joint discoverers of natural selection. However, in 1873 he suffered a much…
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- … des Darwinismus’, in Die Gartenlaube 21:43 (1873), p. 711; this weekly journal was published by …
