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List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 19 hits
- … (1) Agassiz, Alexander (12) Agassiz, Louis …
- … (1) Berkeley, M. J. (12) Berlin (1) …
- … (1) Gaudry, Albert (12) Geach, F. F. …
- … (3) Geikie, Archibald (12) Geikie, James …
- … (1) Grove, W. R. (12) Groves, Henry …
- … Higginson, T. W. (5) Hildebrand, Friedrich (39) …
- … (3) Hooker, F. H. (12) Hooker, Hyacinth …
- … (2) Judd, J. W. (12) Jukes, J. B. (9 …
- … (2) Koch, Eduard (12) Koch, Heinrich …
- … (3) Layton, Charles (12) Le Couteur, John …
- … Ludwig, Camilla (3) Ludwig, Friedrich (3) …
- … (1) Mackintosh, Daniel (12) Maclaren, Charles …
- … George (29) Max Müller, Friedrich (6) …
- … (1) McLennan, J. F. (12) McNeill, Archibald …
- … (1) Meehan, Thomas (12) Meitzen, August …
- … Rolfe, R. M. (9) Rolle, Friedrich (12) …
- … Tiddeman, R. H. (1) Tiemann, Friedrich (1) …
- … (1) Whitley, C. T. (12) Whitney, W. D. …
- … (2) Zacharias, Otto (12) Zeuschner, E. L. …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
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…
Matches: 6 hits
- … offspring of English fertile plants’ ( To Fritz Müller, 12 May 1870 ). From a fairly early …
- … if the book had not yet been released ( From Asa Gray, 12 October 1876 ). Darwin sent the sheets, …
- … as being as faultless as your temper’ ( From Asa Gray, 12 November 1876 ). The book was …
- … copies were mostly positive in their reaction to the book. Hildebrand wrote that ‘a peep into it has …
- … that it is again of very great value for science’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 6 December 1876 ). …
- … the adaptation for wide dissemination of plants.’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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…
Matches: 11 hits
- … he had ‘gained nothing’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). poor miserable …
- … Natural History Review ( see letter to H. W. Bates, 12 January [1863] ). Darwin added Bates’s …
- … Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). In January 1863, the geologist Friedrich Rolle, who had recently …
- … of reactions to his theory in Germany ( see letter from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 ). Darwin …
- … Society ( see letter from Edward Sabine to John Phillips, 12 November 1863 ). Characteristically, …
- … ). He reminded Huxley again of the German botanist Karl Friedrich von Gärtner’s experiments, which …
- … also encouraged him to write ( see letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] ). In this paper, Scott …
- … on orchids written by a German correspondent, the botanist Friedrich Hildebrand, to be published in …
- … experiments with the same results ( see letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 ). …
- … to capture his attention ( see letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] ). Additionally, Darwin …
- … Huxley, 25 February 1863 , and letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). Emma was a …
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August 1849] Darwin thanks Mary Whitby …
- … Letter 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B . to Darwin, [12 February 1876] Sophia Herrick …
- … future. Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] Darwin …
- … Letter 7858 - Darwin to Wa llace, A. R., [12 July 1871] Darwin tells Wallace that …
- … Letter 3316 - Darwin to Nevill, D. F., [12 November 1861] Darwin requests the …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
Matches: 6 hits
- … which I ought to have observed” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] ). Drosera was the …
- … on it—root leaf & branch!” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ). Darwin found …
- … received detailed observations from Fritz Müller in Brazil, Friedrich Hildebrand in Germany, and …
- … of November 1872 and sold quickly. He wrote to Hooker on 12 January [1873] , “Did I ever boast to …
- … had recently been criticised for this by the philologist Friedrich Max Müller in a series of …
- … of the arguments opposed to this belief” ( letter to Friedrich Max Müller, 3 July 1873 ). …
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…
Matches: 6 hits
- … silly to deserve an answer’ ( letter from S. B. Herrick, 12 February 1876 ). Others questioned …
- … for one so poor at figures as I am’, Gray conceded on 12 November , although he could reassure …
- … from Hermann Muller, 6 December 1876 and 28 December 1876). Friedrich Hildebrand recognised its …
- … the origin of species and varieties’ ( letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 6 December 1876 , and …
- … Darwin’s oldest son William (see Correspondence vol. 12 and the Supplement to vol. 24). By the …
- … stigma’, he told Gray on 4 December. Darwin also adopted Friedrich Hildebrand’s term ‘heterostyle’ …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 3 hits
- … means of changing the races of man’ (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864 …
- … Support for Darwin in Germany was equally enthusiastic. Friedrich Hildebrand sent his praise for …
- … defender in England, Thomas Henry Huxley, remarked on 12 September on ‘the terrible “Darwinismus …
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … renewing contact with correspondents such as Daniel Oliver, Friedrich Hildebrand, Fritz Müller, and …
- … in the album, and a series of poems by the Austrian writer Friedrich Adler (see Appendix VI). One …
- … thanked the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : ‘I suppose that every …
- … the beginning of his 70th year. Darwin was in fact 68 on 12 February 1877. Distinguished …
- … down to rest’, he explained ( letter to J. W. Clark, 12 November 1877 ). Worms Aside …
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
Matches: 6 hits
- … he may wish to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). Darwin need not …
- … remarks on expression”’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [12–17] March [1867] ). Darwin’s doggedness in …
- … with those of trusted correspondents like Müller and Friedrich Hildebrand. Supporters and …
- … had drawn a better sphynx’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] ). Darwin referred …
- … rich from the nonsense talked’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] ). …
- … truth of his own conclusions’ ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 12 April [1867] ). All quiet on …
What is an experiment?
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Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
Matches: 2 hits
- … experiments with Drosera ( letter to Edward Cresy, 12 December [1860] ). He employed a …
- … This is especially clear in his correspondence with Friedrich Hildebrand and other German botanists, …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
Matches: 5 hits
- … in 1864 he drew up the results (see Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix III). Darwin sought to show …
- … with Gray, Philip Henry Gosse, George Chichester Oxenden, Friedrich Hildebrand, and others mentioned …
- … at the new botanic garden in Castleton, Jamaica. Darwin and Friedrich Hildebrand in Germany compared …
- … the award going to Darwin (see Correspondence vol. 12 Appendix IV). With the help of supporters …
- … details of the ensuing debate (see Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix IV) demonstrate how Darwin’s …
