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Climbing plants
Summary
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…
Matches: 12 hits
- … and Sciences , 4 (1857-60): 98-9 ) by the Harvard botanist Asa Gray. This brief paper sparked his …
- … a different story, though. In June 1863, Darwin reported to Gray that although the seeds of Sicyos …
- … regarding the tendrils of Echinocystis beyond what Gray had reported about their sensitivity to …
- … at this early stage of his research is evident; he promised Gray, ‘ If I can make out anything …
- … stage in his research, Darwin seems to have relied only on Gray’s brief notice. This might have been …
- … and physiology of climbing in its many forms. Asa Gray was soon to disabuse Darwin of the …
- … Henslow says tendrils of Cucurbitaceæ are stipules Gray branches, & Thomson leaves—: what …
- … ’. By the beginning of August 1863, Darwin reported to Gray, ‘my present chief Hobby-horse I owe to …
- … ‘Not knowing what is known’ Gray was incredulous. ‘As to tendrils, What are Hooker …
- … Mohl’s work had been translated into English, thanks to Gray, although as he grumbled, ‘ you …
- … paper to save my life ’. A week later, however, he wrote Asa Gray, ‘It is now six months since I …
- … it is over ’, but by the month’s end he confessed to Gray, ‘ I have not been able to resist doing …
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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- … & that almost exclusively bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] ). By …
- … on 2 February, and in April Darwin wrote to his friend Asa Gray, a botanist in the United States, …
- … be an unnatural parent, for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; Darwin noted …
- … Benjamin Dann Walsh in the Midwestern United States, and Asa Gray wrote a long review of ‘Climbing …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
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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- … a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the …
- … the result of a long series of changes . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October …
- … species. References and enclosures in letters from Gray and Hooker show how Darwin was able to …
- … activities of collectors and curators at a great distance. Gray forwarded a letter from Charles …
- … old Testament’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). A …
- … read aloud to him by his ‘dear womenkind’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] ). It was …
