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 A. R. Wallace 10 May 1864
Summary
On the Borneo cave exploration.
ARW will send his contribution to theory of origin of man. The vast mental and cranial differences between man and apes, whereas structural differences in other parts of body are small. The problem of explaining diversity of human races along with the stability of man’s form during all historical epochs. Discussion with "Anthropologicals" [following reading of ARW’s paper, "The origin of human races", before the Anthropological Society, 1 Mar 1864].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B12–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4490 |
From W. E. Darwin [30 April 1864]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from red cowslip, magnified 350x.]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4478 |
From Alfred Newton 7 April 1864
Summary
CD need not worry about having discarded the partridge’s foot.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4456 |
To J. D. Hooker [27 January 1864]
Summary
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 Jan 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4398 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … observing Ceropegia in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters to J. D. Hooker, …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. B. Innes, 1 September [1863] and n. 3. CD had …
- … J. D. Hooker, 26 [July 1863] ). See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 July 1863] ). CD was also aware …
- … 1863 ) was anonymously reviewed in Natural History Review 4 (1864): 61–8. Frances Harriet Hooker . Herbert Spencer . See letter …
- … 1863] , for Hooker’s reference to Charles Victor Naudin on Cucurbitaceae tendrils, and ‘Climbing plants’ , p. 73. CD later decided that the tendrils in Vitaceae (which CD referred to as the ‘Vitiferæ’) and Passifloraceae were modified ‘flower peduncles’ (peduncles of the inflorescenses; see ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 79–87, 89–92, experimental note in DAR 157.2: 78, and letter …
- … 1863] , experimental notes on Ceropegia in DAR 157.1: 10–17, and ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 4, 19, 27). Daniel Oliver . CD refers to the hothouses at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see n. 5, above). CD eventually borrowed a specimen of Drosera dichotoma from Dorothy Fanny Nevill (see Insectivorous plants , pp. 281–2); he experimented with this specimen and published the results in Insectivorous plants , pp. 281–4. See also letter …
From William Henry Harvey 19 May 1864
Summary
Sends dandelion [enclosed] with peculiar form of achene; suggests this solitary "sport" must have arisen by sudden jump from normal type.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4503 |
To P. H. Gosse 7 April [1864]
Summary
Discusses microscopic observation of pollen tubes.
Unable to exchange orchids because of his illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.298) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4454 |
From J. D. Hooker [4–]6 August 1864
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries on climbing plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–]6 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4585 |
From John Brodie Innes to Emma Darwin 16 January [1864]
Summary
Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4387 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … of Innes’s and had written letters in April and May 1863 to the Elgin Courier and the …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. T. Austen, 3 June 1863 ). The bank had been …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. B. Innes, 4 September [1863] . George Dollond …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. B. Innes, 29 August [1863] ). The story was …
- … letter from J. B. Innes, 2 January [1862] ). Innes then became priest in charge of Milton Brodie Mission and chaplain to the bishop of Moray; he continued to be the non-resident incumbent of Down until 1869 ( Crockford’s clerical directory 1894, Freeman 1978 ). Innes refers to the Cluny Hill hydropathic establishment near Forres, Morayshire. Building started in 1863, …
From Asa Gray 16 February 1864
Summary
Is sending his monograph ["A revision and arrangement of the North American species of Astragalus and Oxytropis", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1863): 188–236].
Death of Francis Boott.
U. S. is now determined to do away with slavery.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4409 |
From Robert Swinhoe 4 April 1864
Summary
Reports on a strange breed of sheep at Aden,
a Brazilian plant naturalised in Ceylon,
the Australian Casuarina equisetum spreading in Taiwan,
and an excrescence on wing of several thrushes of Taiwan similar to a growth on wing of a Syrian species.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 254–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4449 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4429 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 August 1864]
Summary
First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.
Nepenthes is a true climber.
Scott has visited Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4597 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 October [1864]
Summary
Huxley has answered Kölliker in Natural History Review [(1864): 566–80].
CD is correcting two of Scott’s papers; is convinced primrose and cowslip are two good species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4630 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 and nn. 5 and 6. For CD’s …
- … ibid. , letter from J. D. Hooker, [13 May 1863] and n. 20, and letter to J. D. …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 August 1863] and n. 7. For a …
- … 1863] . See also J. D. Hooker 1867 and L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 98–108. Daniel Oliver had agreed to review John Scott’s paper on the Primulaceae ( Scott 1864a ). See letter …
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
To George Busk 4 December [1864]
Summary
Thanks GB for proposing him for Copley Medal; suspects he is responsible for the praise in Sabine’s "splendid eulogy" on his work. Has, however, written to Sabine to say he would have liked a little more said about the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Busk |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4696 |
To J. D. Hooker [15 May 1864]
Summary
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [15 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 233 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4496 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … a Lagerstroemia from Hooker in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] and n. 13, and letter from J. D. …
- … 1863] ). CD referred to a mid-styled plant of L. indica in his notes in DAR 109: B116–17 and DAR 27.2: A17 v. , and in Forms of flowers , p. 167. He concluded that the evidence for heterostyly in the species was ‘curiously conflicting’ ( Forms of flowers , p. 168). In his letter …
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 30 March 1864
Summary
Sends CD a copy of her book [Botany for novices (1864?)], intended to encourage the young, especially ladies, to study nature.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4441 |
From W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864]
Summary
Sends specimens of Menyanthes with observations and drawings [see Forms of flowers, p. 115].
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B43–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4502 |
From W. E. Darwin 12 May [1864]
Summary
Observations on style length of 150 flowers of Pulmonaria [angustifolia]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 105.]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A66–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4492 |
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| Scott, John | (13) |
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| Darwin, Emma | (9) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
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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- … 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
Summary
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
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
Dining at Down House
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
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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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Darwin's health
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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 …
