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Full notes on editorial policy
Summary
The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … from manuscripts. If the manuscript was inaccessible but a photocopy or other facsimile version was …
- … text has been enclosed in italic square brackets. A major editorial decision was to adopt the …
- … amendments made in transcription, and also where part of a letter has been written by an amanuensis; …
- … often indicate excitement or haste and may exhibit, over a series of letters, a habit of …
- … In some instances that are not misspellings in a strict sense, editorial corrections have been made. …
- … words, the editors consider that this is most unlikely to be a misspelling but must be explained …
- … alterations and comments. If the only source for a letter is a copy, the editors have …
- … accordance with conventional practice. Where the author of a letter has indicated greater emphasis …
- … indicated in the letters. Darwin and others sometimes marked a change of subject by leaving a …
- … unclear. Occasionally punctuation marking the end of a clause or sentence is not present in …
- … to set it off from the following text. Additions to a letter that run over into the margins, …
- … read. The placement of such an addition is only recorded in a footnote if it seems to the editors to …
- … original text. Where it was necessary to reduce the size of a diagram or enhance an outline for …
- … are recorded in footnotes. The location of diagrams within a letter is sometimes changed for …
- … transcription on the website. Some Darwin letters and a few letters to Darwin are known only …
- … recipient of the letter and its date. The date is given in a standard form, but those elements not …
- … editors of a distinct term for pollination in English was in 1873 ( Correspondence vol. 21, …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … research while he was away from home. Although Darwin lacked a state of the art research institute …
- … general law or system’ In the early 1860s, at a time when his health was especially bad, …
- … of climbing in all its forms. It was quickly reproduced as a small book, giving it a much wider …
- … the topic within an evolutionary framework. He received a wealth of information from correspondents …
- … at one point Darwin had considered combining the works in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, …
- … was the plant equivalent of digestion or reflex action at a physiological level? Was there a …
- … in the diversified movements of plants was stimulated by a phenomenon seemingly unrelated to …
- … because Darwin never published on bloom. In August 1873, while on holiday in Southampton at the home …
- … He suspected that drops of water standing on the surface of a leaf might act like a lens focusing …
- … water they appear as if encased in thin glass. It is really a pretty sight to put a pod of a common …
- … We find watering most prejudicial in the hot sun. It is a splendid subject for experiments ’. …
- … themselves from the injurious effects of water. By November 1873, he was already devising …
- … Frank’s ‘Transversal-Heliotropismus’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, 10 February [1880] ). …
- … ‘ I am very sorry that Sachs is so sceptical, for I w d . rather convert him than any other half …
- … as ‘little discs’ and ‘greenish bodies’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 October 1879 ). …
- … that he had not been able to observe earlier ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 November 1879 ). …
- … pay more for at the usual rate of charging per inch &c they w d . be over £40’; he suggested …
