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Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online
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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…
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- … of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first …
- … of Edwin Ray Lankester, who had been blackballed by the Linnean Society. John …
- … it behaved in similar ways to the Drosera secretion. In 1875, Klein was a very controversial …
- … I liked the man .’ Other highlights from the 1875 letters include: I am very …
- … of my books. ( Letter to R. F. Cooke, 29 June [1875] ) Darwin wrote this to his …
- … new Editions . ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 August [1875] ) Darwin also completed …
- … this possible ( Letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January [1875] ) Agitation for a law …
- … made false statements ( Letter to John Lubbock, 8 April 1875 ) Relations between the …
- … men, despite Ffinden’s opposition, and that a temperance society had been organised by a local …
- … always succeeds ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 13 October [1875] ) Darwin wrote …
- … help his father and brothers with scientific instruments: in 1875, he designed a hygrometer. …
- … his great works ( Letter to A. B. Buckley, 23 February 1875 ) The year was saddened …
- … Lyell. Lyell had helped to introduce Darwin to scientific society in London, had offered much …
- … in my time ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 December 1875] ) In December, Darwin was …
- … a promising young zoologist, was blackballed by the Linnean Society of London. He spent another week …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … during his periods of severe illness. Yet on 15 January 1875 , Darwin confessed to his close …
- … Edwin Ray Lankester, who was up for election to the Linnean Society. The ‘malcontents’ of the …
- … Mivart was a distinguished zoologist, a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a secretary of …
- … respecting codes of conduct and communication in scientific society. Huxley chose journalism, …
- … mouthpiece of ‘Jesuitical Rome’ ( Academy , 2 January 1875, pp. 16–17). ‘How grandly you have …
- … was hampered by his position as president of the Royal Society from spurning Mivart in public. …
- … again & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 ). Darwin had also considered …
- … the chance arose. On 28 January , he sent a note on Royal Society business to Edward Burnett …
- … learned of Klein’s testimony from Huxley on 30 October 1875 : ‘I declare to you I did not believe …
- … carried out on live animals in laboratories. In January 1875, he received details of experiments by …
- … printing an additional 250 ( letter to John Murray, 3 May 1875 ). In the event, the book …
- … in a review of the book in the Academy , 24 July 1875, by Ellen Frances Lubbock: ‘in Utricularia …
- … born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 July] 1875). Back over old ground …
- … which I had long wished to see,’ he wrote on 21 April 1875 , ‘and now that I have seen it, I am …
- … do a good deal of “hammering”,’ he wrote on 14 July 1875 . ‘I shall not let Pangenesis alone …
- … his own theory of heredity in a series of articles in 1875 and 1876, based partly on his studies of …
- … & more’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [ c . February 1875?] ). By May, having finished …
- … proofmaniac’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] ). But Francis also found …
- … had been opened in the village, and a local temperance society had been established by a Down …
- … 15 July [1875] ). Such visitors from the upper ranks of society could be especially taxing. As Emma …
- … paper in October and asked Darwin to submit it to the Royal Society on his behalf. Darwin …
- … had to break the news to the author in 1876 that his Royal Society ambitions had been frustrated. …
- … who had been blackballed in a bid for election to the Linnean Society. He was the eldest son of …
- … ). It was Thiselton-Dyer who nominated Lankester for the Linnean, and he was blackballed on 2 …
- … in 1875, Lankester had been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and had been appointed professor …
- … Hooker, who attributed it to political squabbles within the society, especially among botanists who …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … on this subject. ( To J. V. Carus 7 February 1875 ). In fact, Darwin had planned a new set of …
- … fact seems to me all important.’ ( To Asa Gray, 30 May [1875] ). In earlier papers on plants with …
- … any material aid to plants in fertilization?’ (Meehan 1875) prompted Darwin to inform him that he …
- … to plants to intercross’ ( To Thomas Meehan, 3 October 1875 ). Hermann Müller had also read Meehan …
- … obscure this matter’ ( From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1875 ). The Italian botanists were …
- … plants that crossing was of little importance (Pedicino 1875; Comes 1875). Darwin was philosophical, …
- … Kölreuter’s papers’ ( To Hermann Müller, 26 October 1875 ). Darwin’s copy of Johann Kölreuter’s …
- … in the conditions’ ( To Ernst Haeckel, 13 November 1875 ). He added on a darker note, ‘What I …
- … papers in the same book ( To J. V. Carus, 25 December 1875 ). As Darwin continued to write …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … his long paper on climbing plants in the Journal of the Linnean Society , and, arising from this, …
- … the year, Darwin was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The year …
- … was ready to submit his paper on climbing plants to the Linnean Society of London, and though he was …
- … Darwin’s nomination for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had staunchly …
- … of species ( Origin ), which the Council of the Royal Society had failed to include among the …
- … scarlet fever), and was wondering whether to send it to the Linnean Society, or to the Royal Society …
- … 7 January [1865] ). After sending the manuscript to the Linnean, he complained to Hooker: ‘For the …
- … ). An abstract of the paper was read before the Linnean Society on 2 February, and in April …
- … books that he needed for references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist …
- … from which Darwin edited and submitted in October to the Linnean Society for publication in Müller’s …
- … vol. 13). Before submitting the letters to the Linnean Society, Darwin enlisted the help of …
- … published his results in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Scott 1867), and Darwin …
- … the duke of Argyll, had delivered an address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh criticising Origin …
- … himself in December elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ‘Here is a really …
- … Mensch (Rolle 1866), a study of the development of human society in the light of Origin and …
- … in person, Hooker’s enthusiasm for science and scientific society was evidently undimmed: Frances, …
- … each other are again full of botany and news of scientific society. Darwin finished the year well …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of London …
- … scientific books in Darwin’s library were catalogued in 1875, and this manuscript catalogue is in …
- … Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
- … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
- … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
- … 1837] Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian …
- … Horticult. Transactions [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London ].— [DAR …
- … Journal ] Linnæan Transact [ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ] …
- … Association [ Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England ]. Zoolog. Soc. …
- … List of Books at end of Catalogue of Royal Soc. [Royal Society of London 1839]— Meckel’s …
- … 1843–4] already (1844) VI. vols. published Lib. Geological Society (read) Goulds Kangaroos …
- … History of Greece [Grote 1846–56]. Miss. Martineau Society in America [H. Martineau 1837] …
- … M rs Whitby [Whitby 1848] In Library of Entomological Society & many allied Books …
- … Edinburgh Transactions [ Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ] Youatt on …
- … Journal of Hort Soc. [ Journal of the Horticultural Society of London ] must be read …
- … Burtons Life of David Hume [Burton 1846] Society in America. Miss Martineau [H. Martineau …
- … & Wernerian Transacts— [ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London and Memoirs of …
- … [Loudon 1838] Lists at end of Royal Soc [Royal Society of London 1839] (List from …
- … Zoolog. Trans [ Transactions of the Zoological Society of London ]: up to parts published …
- … vols. of Linnæan Transactions [ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ]. May 3 …
- … June 10 th . Linnæan Trans. [ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ] to end of Vol: …
- … *119: 4v.; 119: 6a Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . London. 1791–. [Vol. …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … for a joint paper by Darwin and Wallace to be read at the Linnean Society of London on 1 July …
- … intercrossing (Orchids) , which Darwin had prepared for the Linnean Society of London. Murray only …
- … more about the wide distribution of my books’ (29 June [1875] Letter 10035 ). When the book went …
- … & lo & behold we have sold some 1700 Copies!!!’ (3 July 1875 Letter 10040 ). In all 3000 …
- … ), which had first appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society of London. This edition of …
- … plants , but even so only 130 were left by the end of 1875 ( Letter 10297 ). The following year …
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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- … of climbing plants’, appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) in 1865, and …
- … preparing a second edition, which eventually appeared in 1875. In the same year, Darwin published a …
- … in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, 7 February 1875 ). While Climbing plants focused …
- … Diagram of a klinostat. Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . 1881. Vol. XVIII, p. 450. …
Climbing plants
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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
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- … about where he could publish his opus. The Journal of the Linnean Society seemed the obvious …
- … him, ‘ Bentham craves your paper however long—for the Linnean, & so do I ’. A more relaxed …
- … but an excerpt from it was read by the secretary of the Linnean Society, Frederick Currey , on 2 …
- … on 12 June 1865 in a double issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ). In spite …
- … for publication and appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) in November …
- … would become the second edition of the book, published in 1875. It would not be long before Darwin …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … in Primula ’), which he read at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London on 21 November 1861. …
- … and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 3 February 1863. …
- … was eager to finish in order to have the paper read at the Linnean Society before the summer break. …
- … the three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’, was sent to the Society on 10 June 1864 and read six days …
- … and trimorphic plants’, was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 20 February, while the …
- … published in the June 1868 issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society of London ( Botany ). …
- … earlier papers on dimorphic and trimorphic plants. In early 1875, he briefly considered adding this …
- … hinted at the possibility of functional differences, but by 1875 he had completed Insectivorous …
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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- … vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 September 1875 ). He began to compile an account …
- … end of the previous year. He had been incensed in December 1875 when the zoologist Edwin Ray …
- … on Lankester’s scientific reputation, but also to save the Linnean Society from the ‘utter disgrace’ …
- … The controversial issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission …
- … school at Cambridge University. The Physiological Society, which had been founded in March 1876 by …
- … what action to take. Burdon Sanderson was keen for the society’s secretary, George Romanes, to write …
- … to Insectivorous plants , which was published in July 1875, with a US edition published later …
- … in February 1876 (despite bearing a publication date of 1875), Darwin must have been gratified by …
- … on leaf-arrangement or phyllotaxy was sent to the Royal Society of London by Darwin because he …
- … ). Darwin recognised scientific skill in all levels of society. He not only offered to propose the …
- … Francis Maitland Balfour, for fellowship of the Royal Society, but also signed a petition for a …
- … Tait, a Birmingham gynaecologist. The decision by the Royal Society of London to reject a paper by …
- … left Darwin, who had communicated the paper to the society in 1875 at Tait’s request, with the …
- … April [1876] ). Darwin could not have been surprised by the society’s decision. He already knew …
- … last for my life’, he told George Stokes, secretary of the society, on 21 April, confessing, ‘as I …
- … of George’s work but intended to present it to the Royal Society. He was pleased that Horace was off …
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
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In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … with these enigmatic killer vegetables culminated in 1875 with the publication of Insectivorous …
- … after the first edition was published. In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching …
- … Darwin senior submitted his son’s discovery to the Royal Society of London. Only fellows of the …
- … the common teasel ( Dipsacus sylvestris )’ at the Royal Society on 1 March 1877 (F. Darwin 1877a). …
- … An abstract of Francis’ paper was published in the Royal Society’s Proceedings , but to his …
- … by the beginning of August. Still displeased by the Royal Society’s decision not to publish the full …
- … in the most extraordinary way.’ As early as August 1875, Cohn had argued that aggregation in …
- … (Abstract.) [Read 1 March 1877.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 26: 4–8. …
- … of Drosera rotundifolia . Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 17 (98), 17–31. …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … ‘Action of carbonate of ammonia on roots’, read at the Linnean Society of London on 6 and 16 March, …
- … produced by planting in apposition’, was read at the Linnean Society on 4 May, but not published. …
- … sat for Collier in 1881 for a portrait commissioned by the Linnean Society. Collier sent Darwin a …
- … had taken a strong interest in the vivisection debate in 1875, and had even testified before a Royal …
- … consult another physician. ‘Ever since I met Frank at the Linnean,’ he wrote, ‘I have been greatly …
- … his memory more than I shall. I have just come from the Linnean when we adjourned as a small tribute …
- … life in the 1840s: his duties as secretary of the Geological Society, his work on geology, coral …
- … In May 1857, Darwin wrote to the secretary of the Royal Society, William Sharpey, with …
- … by Thomas Francis Jamieson in a paper to the Geological Society. Darwin was a referee for the paper …
- … from my continued ill-health has been my seclusion from society & not becoming acquainted with …
- … for divorce’ ( letter to H. K. Rusden, [before 27 March 1875] ). In Descent of man , p. 103, …
- … ‘the imbecile, the maimed, and other useless members of society’. He regarded this as the highest …
- … vol. 23, letter from Charlotte Papé, 16 July 1875 ). She now addressed Francis, who could best …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … not retract his criticism in his own second edition (Dana 1875, p. 274). Descent …
- … Hooker even suggested having him removed as secretary of the Linnean Society ( letter From J. D. …
- … (Correspondence vol. 23, from J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1875] ), preferring to attack Mivart in …
- … Anthropogenie in the Academy (2 January 1875; see Appendix V, pp. 644–5) . The affair …
- … wrote a polite, very formal letter to Mivart on 12 January 1875 , refusing to hold any future …
- … Darwin offered to try to get it exhibited at a Royal Society of London soirée (see letter from …
- … time in China, in his candidacy for election to the Royal Society of London ( see letter to H. B. …
- … the colour of their surroundings to the Entomological Society of London ( letter from H. W. Bates, …
- … Charles Lyell’s plan to leave a bequest to the Geological Society of London and an annual medal ( …
- … February 1874 ), and honorary member of the Entomological Society of France ( letter to Eugène …
- … and a second French edition was published in January 1875 ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald , 4 February …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … to an end. The dispute was not resolved until early 1875, and, even then, not to Darwin’s complete …
- … friends, and contemporary codes of behaviour in scientific society. It has been discussed in Gruber …
- … their reproductive choices would have an effect on future society. Francis Galton had written about …
- … (Hooker was president and Huxley secretary of the Royal Society of London.) Mivart swiftly …
- … criminality referred to would be most useful & beneficial to society as tending to limit …
- … having Mivart removed from the secretaryship of the Linnean Society of London, and was talking about …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 29 December 1874 ). By January 1875, Mivart had still not made any …
- … that it would be improper for him, as president of the Royal Society, to act against Mivart, an …
- … book Anthropogenie , in the Academy , 2 January 1875. ‘Possessed by a blind animosity against …
- … (Mivart was a Catholic convert.) On 12 January 1875 , Darwin finally wrote to Mivart, …
- … will agree to a cut—for if not & they were to meet in the Linnean or anywhere else & Mivart …
- … article in a letter published in the Academy , 16 January 1875, p. 66, signed, ‘The Quarterly …
1.6 Ouless oil portrait
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< Back to Introduction The first commissioned oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Walter William Ouless, who was given sittings at Down House in March 1875. The idea for such a portrait came from Darwin’s son William, who as far back as 1872 had…
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- … Ouless, who was given sittings at Down House in March 1875. The idea for such a portrait came from …
- … the resulting picture was shown at the Royal Academy in May 1875, the Times reviewer noted …
- … others preferred John Collier’s portrait of 1881 for the Linnean Society. Emma Darwin, always …
- … Walter William Ouless date of creation March 1875 computer-readable date …
- … and letter from Charles Darwin to Joseph Hooker, 30 March [1875], DCP-LETT-9905. ‘The Royal Academy’ …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
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- … to England in 1851, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and was awarded its Royal Medal …
- … of the joint paper with Alfred Russel Wallace to the Linnean Society in 1858. Despite his …
- … to relish the opportunity to come to Darwin’s defense. In 1875, he intervened in a bitter and …
- … grandly you have defended me”, Darwin wrote on 6 January 1875, “you have indeed been a true friend.” …
Insectivorous plants
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Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, staying with his wife’s relatives in Hartfield, Sussex, he went for long walks on the heathland and became curious about the large number of insects caught by…
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- … some time whether my “twaddle” is worth communicating to Linnean Soc. ’ He initially collected a …
- … at a meeting of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society in February 1861 (Bonney 1919, p. 154), …
- … substances. Darwin spent the first three months of 1875 correcting his manuscript, and …
- … Insectivorous plants was published on 2 July 1875 and it was immediately clear that Darwin had been …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … the limits of science in questions of religion, morals, and society. Graham accepted evolution and …
- … not have read the evidence given by physiologists to the 1875 Royal Commission for the regulation of …
- … also felt obliged to sit for a portrait commissioned by the Linnean Society. ‘It tires me a good …
- … dog not to agree’, he told Romanes, secretary of the society, on 27 May . Romanes assured Darwin …
- … and when William expressed his wish to join the Geological Society of London, if it were ‘not absurd …
- … for not commending papers presented by Francis at the Linnean Society the previous December …
- … character, such as ‘his strong sense of humour and love of society’, ‘his extreme interest in the …
