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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation …
- … & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June …
- … of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the …
- … put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . When Huxley’s book described the …
- … anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] ). In the same letter, he gave his …
- … origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first …
- … bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although English experts …
- … in learned journals and the press during the first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely …
- … made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter …
- … separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public perceptions of creation, …
- … said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin did not relish …
- … guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Nevertheless, Darwin’s regret was …
- … species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, Darwin’s …
- … would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In May, Darwin responded to Gray …
- … put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the same letter, he assured Gray …
- … unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh Falconer was also preparing a …
- … by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Falconer published his criticisms in …
- … so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). Falconer and Owen were …
- … ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Archaeopteryx Falconer, …
- … his crimes… ?’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, 20 …
- … reptiles and birds ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] ). Darwin was delighted by …
- … fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Only until March did Darwin …
- … attention ( see letter to J. D. Dana, 20 February [1863] , and letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March …
- … leaves, asking the professional botanists Gray, Hooker, and Daniel Oliver for references on …
- … the family, to explaining the phenomenon ( see letter from Daniel Oliver, 17 February 1863 , …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … to make out this wonderfully complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three …
- … the structure of almost every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I …
- … to wait. ‘It is a very extraordinary book!’, wrote Daniel Oliver on 14 May, and George Bentham …
- … part of his popular exposition of Darwin’s theory (Rolle 1863; see letter to Friedrich Rolle, 17 …
- … a new era in the science’ (A. Gray 1862b, p. 429). Oliver joined in the chorus, telling him: ‘Your …
- … & most promising direction to our studies’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 May 1862 ). Darwin …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … the long illness that had plagued him since the spring of 1863. Because of poor health, Darwin …
- … from that of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] …
- … leaf, and aerial roots. When his health deteriorated in 1863, he found that he could still continue …
- … himself as ‘a broken-down brother-naturalist’, sent to Daniel Oliver, keeper of the herbarium at the …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] ). When Darwin asked Oliver whether the tendrils of …
- … than modified branches or leaves as most botanists thought, Oliver initially expressed reservations. …
- … routinists regard in the light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] ). Though …
- … scientific debate. He had begun taking the journal in April 1863 and was an enthusiastic subscriber. …
- … and their predecessors had continued to grow following the 1863 publication of Huxley’s Evidence …
- … failure to win the award in the two preceding years. An 1863 letter from the president of the Royal …
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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- … of his new Orchid book. Letter 3515 - Daniel Oliver to Darwin, 23 April 1862 …
- … on a set of experiments carried out at Darwin’s request. (Oliver would later become a professor of …
- … Cassia . He also mentions the ongoing work of his assistant Daniel Oliver. He reflects on the …
- … Letter 4053 - Darwin to Asa Gray, 20 March 1863 Darwin discusses dimorphic plants with …
Climbing plants
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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
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- … and told his best friend Joseph Dalton Hooker in January 1863, ‘ I have been trying for health …
- … vomiting half the night— ' Darwin’s journal for 1863 resolutely records each chapter of …
- … His letters tell a different story, though. In June 1863, Darwin reported to Gray that although the …
- … I have no opinion of my own ’. By the beginning of August 1863, Darwin reported to Gray, ‘my …
- … find nothing in any book which I have: neither Hooker nor Oliver knew anything of these movements ’ …
- … was incredulous. ‘As to tendrils, What are Hooker & Oliver (the latter a Professor too) …
- … broken-down brother naturalist’ As the summer of 1863 drew to a close, Darwin’s bouts of …
- … climbers, this does not distress my weakened Brain— Ask Oliver to look over enclosed queries (& …
- … me if botanists wd let all tendrils be modified leaves’. Daniel Oliver, for example, insisted, …
- … dissecting and drawing. Darwin sent William’s drawing to Oliver, commenting, ‘ Does not this render …
- … between foliar and axial parts, which, however, Oliver admitted, sometimes ‘ shades off and is lost …
- … distinction. They are both axial.’ Only days later, Oliver apologised for the tone of his previous …
- … to find that I have a good deal of new matter ’. He told Oliver that Mohl, despite his book being …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … letters to the Linnean Society, Darwin enlisted the help of Daniel Oliver, a botanist at Kew, to …
- … Scott had evidently started his crossing experiments in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
- … vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 ). However, probably the most enthusiastic …
- … that Lyell in his Antiquity of man , published in 1863, had made unacknowledged use of Lubbock’s …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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3.4 William Darwin, photo 1
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< Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - first to William and later to Leonard - for the fashioning of his image. William, the eldest, apparently took up photography c.1857, when still in his teens, and…
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- … or enclosing photographs by William went to the botanist Daniel Oliver in September 1862, to the …
- … 11 April [1861] (DCP-LETT-3115). Letters from Darwin to Daniel Oliver, [17 Sept. 1862], (DCP-LETT …
- … Letter from Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle, 31 Jan. [1863] (DCP-LETT-3957). Letter from Darwin to …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … meaning of the dimorphism ’. Two months later, he told Daniel Oliver, ‘ I am surprised to find …
- … was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 3 February 1863. Forms of flowers …
- … he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has two sets of …
- … ‘They did not believe in my results’ In July 1863, when Lythrum was flowering, Darwin …
- … only produced seedlings of the same form, but in March 1863, Darwin told Scott that with regard to …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … expertise of William Hopkins and aroused the interest of Daniel Sharpe, whose subsequent work led to …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … by Heinrich Georg Bronn, had been published in 1860 and 1863 by the firm E. Schweizerbart’sche …
- … their father’s death in 1848 until Catherine married in 1863. Catherine had written shortly before …
- … when the young daughter of Hooker’s colleague at Kew, Daniel Oliver, died suddenly. ‘How grieved I …
