From John Scott 25 September 1872
Summary
Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Observations on worm-castings in India.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8534 |
To Heinrich Fick 26 July [1872]
Summary
Thanks HF for his essay ["Über den Einfluss der Naturwissenschaft auf das Recht", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 18 (1872): 248–77]. CD gives views favouring competition among trades unions and the working classes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Fick |
Date: | 26 July [1872] |
Classmark: | Helene Fick ed. 1897–1908, 2: 314–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8427F |
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- … Nevertheless under any system, temperate & frugal workmen will have an advantage & leave …
To Asa Gray 22 October 1872
Summary
Spiralling of tendrils.
Has worked hard on Drosera.
Is interested in tracing the "nerves" of Dionaea which follow the vascular bundles. Finds he can paralyse half of the leaf by pricking it at a certain point.
Wishes AG to carry out two experiments on D. filiformis.
Has received AG’s Dubuque address [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 4 (1872): 282–98].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8568 |
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- … D. Hooker, 10 October [1872] )). Many temperate species of Drosera (sundew) die back in …
From Hubert Airy [before 15] July 1872
Summary
Outlines his theory on the origin of existing orders of leaf arrangement. Believes spiral and whorled orders have evolved from a primitive distichous arrangement. These arrangements permit a compact bud form of small surface area that can withstand external changes in temperature, and in particular can tolerate frost.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 15] July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8412 |
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- … which have allowed the elm of our temperate zone to retain its simple 1 2 -order, while …
From Gaston de Saporta 18 March 1872
Summary
CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.
Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8246 |
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- … fully under the influence of cold or temperate climates and in the epoch when that sort of …
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Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Fick, Heinrich | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Fick, Heinrich | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … on the mountains of Abyssinia, and likewise to those of temperate Europe. This is one of the most …
- … than at present in various parts of the tropics, where temperate forms apparently have crossed; but …
- … So again, on the island of Fernando Po, Mr. Mann found temperate European forms first beginning to …
- … of the torrid zone harmoniously blended with those of the temperate. So that under certain …
- … have co-existed for an indefinitely long period mingled with temperate forms. At one time …
- … cannot look to the peninsula of India for such a refuge, as temperate forms have reached nearly all …
- … of Java we see European forms, and on the heights of Borneo temperate Australian productions. If we …
- … continent to its southern extremity; but we now know that temperate forms have likewise travelled …
- … are on the mountains of Brazil a few southern and northern temperate and some Andean forms, which it …
- … number of forms in Australia, which are related to European temperate forms, but which differ so …
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
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< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … Moncur, who also worked on the north and south blocks of the Temperate House at Kew. The Palm House …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … lumbago– fundament–rash. Always been temperate– now wine comforts me much– could …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … would migrate towards the equator during an ice age and that temperate species would survive at …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … of similar species in both the northern and southern temperate zones. In the first edition of …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … observed distributions, such as the presence of the same temperate species on distant mountains, and …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … Settlement – a thoroughly convict colony – a healthy temperate climate – far removed from civilized …