From Horace Benge Dobell 15 July 1864
Summary
Suggests man’s original mode of walking and running is similar to that of quadrupeds.
He also suggests CD answer critics who say no new species has ever been unequivocally traced to its origins, by pointing out that there is no unequivocal account of the origin of surnames.
| Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4568 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to H. B. Dobell, 21 April [1863] , and letter from H. B. Dobell, 12 May 1863 ). …
- … 7, 169–70, and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to H. B. Dobell, 16 February [1863] ). CD …
- … 1863 on issues related to CD’s work on Variation (see Correspondence vol. 11). Dobell, who studied respiratory diseases, was also engaged in the compilation of genealogical tables as part of his research on the hereditary transmission of diseases and deformities (see Dobell 1862 and 1866, and Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
To A. C. Ramsay 12 July [1864]
Summary
Thanks for his book [Physical geology and geography of Great Britain, 2d. ed. (1864)].
Pleased that ACR’s glacial lake theory is progressing. New Zealand lakes support the view. Suggests he write to Charles Gould in Tasmania, calling his attention to glacial action.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 12 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4560 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Haast, 6 August 1863 , and letter to J. D. …
- … sent CD the first edition ( Ramsay 1863 ). See letter from A. C. Ramsay, 10 July 1864 …
- … Dalton Hooker in August 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 …
- … a map from Haast in November 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Julius von …
- … 1863] ). This map has not been found. It may be one of those referred to in Haast’s paper ‘On the Southern Alps of Canterbury, Middle Island, New Zealand’, which was read before the Royal Geographical Society of London on 8 February 1864 ( J. F. J. von Haast 1864a ). For Haast’s observations of glacial action, see also letter …
To Daniel Oliver 13 July [1864]
Summary
If CD understood Nepenthes, he would understand every class of climbers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 13 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 50 (EH 88206033) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4564 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] , and letter from Daniel …
- … 1863 ). CD was interested in the movements of contraction and curling of the outer walls of the pods that accompanied this process (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … 1863 , and CD’s note in DAR 157.2: 96). Mohl 1827 . Hugo von Mohl’s account of homologies is discussed in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 48–9. An annotated copy of Mohl 1827 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 590–4). See letter …
To Daniel Oliver [22 July 1864]
Summary
Will DO observe whether leaf [of Nepenthes] with pitcher ever wound round a stick? CD’s plant is improving.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [22 July 1864] |
| Classmark: | Edward Ford (private collection); in September 2020 owned by ZHANG, Lun Xia (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4566 |
To George Bentham 7 July [1864]
Summary
Asks for names of plants mentioned in an article in Natural History Review ["South European Floras", n.s. 4 (1864): 369–84] so he can get seeds.
Also would like specimens of the two forms of Aegiphila.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 7 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 716) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4554 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1864
Summary
JDH pursues the coffee plantation job for Scott.
Wrote 14 letters today. JDH’s work load.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 230–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4552 |
Matches: 3 hits
From Ernst Haeckel 9 [July 1864]
Summary
No book has made such a powerful impression on EH as the Origin. Most older German scholars opposed to it, but number of supporters growing among the young. Fortunately strength of religious dogmas now small among educated Germans. Situation in Jena especially favourable. Defended CD’s theory last year at Congress of German Scientists in Stettin.
Intends special study of jellyfish.
Plans general work on natural history.
Hard fate [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel] has made EH indifferent to criticism.
Colleagues August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also convinced by CD’s theory.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 [July 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4555 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 and nn. 6–14. See …
- … proceedings of the meeting ( Haeckel 1863 ). See also letter to Ernst Haeckel, 9 March …
- … 1863 ). See Nyhart 1995 , pp. 143–67, on evolutionary morphology at Jena from the 1860s to the early 1880s. Haeckel had offered to send CD a copy of his monograph Die Radiolarien ( Haeckel 1862 ); CD received it at the end of February (see letter …
- … letter from Ernst Haeckel, 2 January 1864 and n. 4. For the table of genealogical relationships of Radiolariae, see Haeckel 1862 , p. 234. Haeckel refers to the Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Arzte (conference of German naturalists and physicians), held at Stettin in 1863. …
- … 1863 , pp. 40–1). In 1856, Haeckel had been Virchow’s assistant at the Würzburg pathologisch–anatomische Anstalt (see Krauße 1987 , p. 31). Haeckel published several works in 1864 and 1865 on the Coelenterata, a class of invertebrates that included sea anemones and medusae (see Haeckel 1864b , 1865a, 1865b). He eventually sent CD copies of these papers (see letter …
To J. D. Hooker [24 July 1864?]
Summary
Notes and queries on climbing plants for JDH [? given to him by CD at their meeting of 24 July 1864].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [24 July 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 242b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4573 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Georg Beer ( Beer 1863 ). CD first enquired about the book in his letter to J. D. …
- … 1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11). He had received extracts of the book from Daniel Oliver (see letter …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 February 1864] . The Matador tree had been described by Henry Walter Bates in The naturalist on the river Amazons as a form of fig that strangles and eventually kills its host tree as it climbs (see Bates 1863 , …
- … letter from George Bentham, 10 July 1864 and n. 6. CD was currently observing species from the genus Bignonia. In ‘Climbing plants’ , p. 49, CD remarked that he had selected nine species ‘by hazard … to show what diversity of structure and action there may be in species of the same genus’. CD’s observations on Bignonia , dated at intervals between January 1863 …
From John Lubbock 28 July 1864
Summary
Has obtained microscopes for CD.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4575 |
To Ernst Haeckel 19 July [1864]
Summary
Thanks for praise [of Origin].
Comments on EH’s Die Radiolarien.
Grieved EH has suffered calamity [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel].
CD recovering from long illness.
Doing easy botanical work.
Mentions variability.
Discusses reception of CD’s views in Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 19 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4569 |
From Asa Gray 11 July 1864
Summary
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4558 |
From George Bentham 10 July 1864
Summary
Sends specimens of two species of Aegiphila [see Forms of flowers, p. 123]. Discusses similar forms in other plants.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B107–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4556 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … letter to George Bentham, 7 July [1864] , n. 2. The description of Boronia pinnata appears in the first volume of Bentham’s Flora Australiensis , which was published in 1863 ( …
- … letter from Asa Gray, [2 June 1862] and n. 2. CD discussed the Rubiaceae in Forms of flowers , pp. 284–6. The description of Drosera appears in the second volume of Bentham’s Flora Australiensis , which was published in 1864 (see Bentham 1863– …
- … 1863–78 , 1: 318–19). Bentham probably refers to Asa Gray’s remark in his Manual of botany that several genera of Rubiaceae have flowers of two sorts, one with long stamens and short styles, the other with short stamens and long styles. Gray termed these plants ‘diœciously dimorphous’ (see Gray 1856 , p. 171 n. ). In 1861, Gray had referred CD to the Rubiaceae because of their dimorphic flowers (see Correspondence vol. 9, letters …
From Richard Spruce to J. D. Hooker 29 July 1864
Summary
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4577 |
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| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
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 of …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
Women’s scientific participation
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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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
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- … The Project was contacted by the owner of an important Darwin letter that contains a rare instance …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's …
Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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- … Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Dramatisation script
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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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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
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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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
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.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
Scientific Networks
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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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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
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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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment A monograph by which to work …
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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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
