From J. D. Hooker 13 December 1876
Summary
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 71–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10715 |
To F. M. Balfour 13 December 1876
Summary
CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10716 |
From A. R. Wallace 13 December 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B130–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10717 |
From George Bentham 13 December 1876
Summary
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10718 |
| letter | (4) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Letter 5648 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. R., 12–13 Oct [1867] Darwin thinks naturalist A. R …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
