To J. D. Hooker [10–]12 November [1862]
Summary
So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.
Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.
Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.
Is working on cultivated plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10–]12 Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3801 |
From Henry Holland 26 March [1862]
Summary
Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3485 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of nerves, if not producing it. If the Salt injection should not be of avail, one …
To Asa Gray 28 July [1862]
Summary
AG’s "capital" review of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–44].
Thinks there are three forms of Lythrum salicaria.
Discusses transport of seeds by sea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 28 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3667 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the fertility of seeds after immersion in salt water (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 21 [September 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Haast’s observations. Particularly glad to get geological evidence of glacial action (in Southern Hemisphere).
Thinks Ramsay’s theory to large extent true, but thinks that in a much disturbed country some lakes would have been formed in depressions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 [Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3735 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … frogs’ spawn to be very easily killed by salt water (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
Biogeography
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
Matches: 12 hits
- … islands, where they continued to evolve. Seeds in salt water For his theory to …
- … whether the seeds of common garden plants could be soaked in salt water, survive, and germinate. …
- … asks Hooker to predict which seeds will be easily killed in salt water. Letter 1669 …
- … 1. Why did Darwin undertake soak common garden seeds in salt water? 2. Why do you think …
- … Hooker in putting together his experiment soaking seeds in salt water? What does their exchange tell …
- … swallow common garden seeds? How does this relate to the salt water experiments? 5. How do …
- … EXPERIMENT Recreate Charles Darwin's seeds in salt-water experiment! What you …
- … hardware store or seed catalogue. small vials of salt water. Average salt content of sea water …
- … size, etc. Have each group make predictions about how the salt water will affect the seeds. Have a …
- … Place the seeds in small vials filled with salt water. Leave them for a week and have the students …
- … first experiment mimicked Darwin’s 1855 work on seeds and salt-water. The experiment is delightfully …
- … illustration of biogeography: many seeds survive weeks in salt-water and are still capable of …
List of correspondents
Summary
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,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Salisbury, Lady (1) Salt & Son (1) …
Emma Darwin
Summary
Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife and first cousin, was born Emma Wedgwood, the eighth and youngest child of Josiah Wedgwood II and Bessy Allen. Her father was the eldest son of the famous pottery manufacturer, Josiah Wedgwood I. Her mother was one…
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- … were known collectively as the Dovelies, or Miss Pepper and Salt) died in 1832. Her father& …
Darwin The Collector
Summary
Look at nature more closely and create and record your own natural collections.
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- … Activities provide an introduction to Charles Darwin, how and why he collected so many specimens …
Getting to know Darwin's science
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One of the most exciting aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the opportunity it gives to researchers to ‘get to know’ Darwin as an individual. The letters not only reveal the scientific processes behind Darwin’s publications, they give insight…
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- … life. Students dissected barnacles, tested the effects of salt water on seeds, observed the habits …
4.23 Gegeef, 'Battle Field of Science'
Summary
< Back to Introduction Another satirical print by ‘Gegeëf’, The Battle Field of Science and the Churches, is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate in a twopenny journal, The Gauntlet, which, like Our National Church and…
Matches: 1 hits
- … talking ass, Jonah’s whale, Lot’s wife turned to salt, Joshua making the sun stand still, etc. – and …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 6 hits
- … must be read. 1855 (read) Salts Travels in Abyssinia [Salt 1814] Appendix &c must be read …
- … —— 23 Stansbury. Exploration & Survey of the Great Salt Lake [Stansbury 1852]. May 15 th …
- … Jamaica [Gosse 1847] 12 Salts Travels in Abyssinia [Salt 1814] —— Boreau Flore du …
- … or Latter Day Saints, in the valley of the Great Salt Lake: a history . Philadelphia. …
- … Affghanistan, 1841–2. London. *128: 180 Salt, Henry. 1814. A voyage to Abyssinia, …
- … 1852. An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: including a description of …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
Summary
In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
Matches: 3 hits
What is an experiment?
Summary
Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the pollen of one flower to another, immersing seeds in salt water, feeding them to birds and fish); …
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
Summary
In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … loss and gain of water. When Francis witnessed the effect of salt and acid solutions on the …
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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- … the experiment before! Instead of taking it for granted that salt water kills seeds. I shall have it …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
