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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … meaning of heterostyled flowers’ (‘Recollections’, p. 419). During the winter and spring, Darwin was …
- … & stigmas’, Darwin remarked to Joseph Dalton Hooker on 25 January . He had been troubling …
- … He requested a large number of plants from Hooker on 25 May , adding, ‘I often wish that I could …
- … on leaves and the distribution of the stomata’ (F. Darwin 1886). Alongside his work on bloom, …
- … warned Thiselton-Dyer, who seems to have shared Hooker’s suspicion of ambitious gardeners ( letter …
- … to the Royal Society of London by Darwin, who confessed to Hooker on 25 January , ‘I know that it …
- … stimulate his zeal & make him think better of his work’. Hooker replied on 2 March , ‘I …
- … the vibratory flagella of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s …
- … as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ). Hooker was asked repeatedly by the emperor …
- … himself you & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 ). Darwin was …
- … to the mark hereafter is another question’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 30 May [1877] ). In the end, …
- … 2: 230), and he later described the event to Hyacinth Hooker on 18 November 1877 : ‘There was a …
- … between sagging of pavemts & castings’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 November [1877] ). It is …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … for 3 February, Darwin reassured his close friend Joseph Hooker that he and Francis would attend the …
- … researcher, and sympathised with his close friends Joseph Hooker and Asa Gray, whose situations …
- … Darwin wrote to Gray on 28 January . On 14 November, Hooker himself acknowledged he was ‘ over …
- … he will do I cannot conceive’, Darwin wrote anxiously to Hooker on 11 September. By the time …
- … noticed by ‘only a few persons’ (‘Recollections’, p. 419). Unnoticed results such as this, together …
