skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

400 Bad Request

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.


Apache Server at dcp-public.lib.cam.ac.uk Port 443
Search:
in keywords
2 Items

Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

Summary

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…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … he received a copy of a book by the German materialist Ludwig Büchner (Büchner 1862) which included …

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…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … oxlip ( P. elatior ), and published his results in an 1868 article (‘Illegitimate offspring of …
  • … it ‘quasi a commentary’ to the materialist philosophy of Ludwig Buchner ( letter from Hermann Kindt …
  • … it translated by a former governess at Down House, Camilla Ludwig. From Ernst Haeckel, Darwin …