To an editor 12 October [1871]
Summary
Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8003 |
From Asa Gray 12 October 1871
Summary
Has seen CD’s sons.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8004 |
From W. H. Flower 12 October 1871
Summary
On structure and function of the cetacean larynx.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8005 |
To Osbert Salvin 12 October [1871]
Summary
CD appreciates the great trouble OS has taken in providing a bundle of observations. [See 8001.] They are useful and will save CD from at least one blunder.
The structure of the beak of the shoveller "filled me with admiration".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8005A |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
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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- … caution into Tyndall’s ears’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10–12 November [1862] ). Another 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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- … conservatories, dry-stoves, and moist- or bark-stoves (p. 1012). More particularly, it was …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
