To Édouard Heckel 31 December 1876
Summary
Would be honoured to have Cross and self fertilisation translated into French by EH; he has written to his French publisher, Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald.
EH’s notes will add interest and he would like to read them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10739F |
To John Scott 15 December 1876
Summary
CD is eager for further information about Lagerstroemia, which is sterile with its own pollen. Does the collection of dried plants reveal more than one form? Plans to republish papers on dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 15 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10721F |
To Ernst Haeckel 31 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for EH’s Anthropogenie, 3d ed.
Sends Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 42 [9895]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10739 |
From George Rolleston 26 December 1876
Summary
Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.
Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].
CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10734 |
From Asa Gray 22 December 1876
Summary
Discusses some dimorphic plants.
Sends specimens of Rhamnus but his few specimens of Leucosmia are very poor.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B36–7, B74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10731 |
From Albert Gaudry 2 December 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for translation of Climbing plants.
AG is at work on Les enchaînements du monde animal [1878]. Will send CD a copy as soon as it is ready.
| Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10696 |
From E. M. Heckel 27 December 1876
Summary
Has read and greatly admires CD’s latest book, Cross and self-fertilisation; seeks permission to translate it into French and to add some annotations. [EMH’s translation was published in 1877.]
| Author: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10735 |
From Hermann Müller 6 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Fritz Müller has been appointed "Naturalista Viajante" of the Rio de Janeiro Museum, which will help his income greatly.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10702 |
From George Henslow [c. 7 December 1876]
Summary
Considers some flowers especially adapted for self-fertilisation, and believes all flowers are self-fertilising under some conditions. Gives examples of plants in which he believes all flowers are cleistogamous. Believes self-fertilisation is the primordial condition of flowering plants.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 7 Dec 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8204 |
From Asa Gray 5 December 1876
Summary
Dimorphism and cleistogamy in Hottonia.
AG wants new, unambiguous term for what is now referred to as "dimorphism", "dioecio-dimorphism", or "heterostyly"; proposes "heterogone".
Sends an excerpt from Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club 2 (June 1871) on Hottonia inflata.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 192, DAR 111: A92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10699 |
To Fritz Müller 11 December 1876
Summary
FM’s new position in Rio.
CD interested in nature of surface deposits at Rio.
Sends a copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 40) (EH 88205870) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10709 |
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- … letter from Fritz Müller, 2 August 1866 and n. 16). For more on Agassiz’s theory and the controversy it engendered, see Brice and Figueirôa 2001. Müller’s name was on CD’s presentation list for Cross and self fertilisation (see Appendix III), and for Orchids 2d ed. , but not for Forms of flowers ( Correspondence vol. 25, Appendix IV). Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 ( …
From Hermann Müller 28 December 1876
Summary
No papers on heterostyly have appeared since 1873.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10736 |
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- … letter to Hermann enquiring about Fritz’s address has been found. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die gegenseitigen Anpassungen beider (The fertilisation of flowers by means of insects and their mutual adaptations; H. Müller 1873 ) was published in 1873. He contributed to Leopold Just’s review of botanical literature, Botanischer Jahresbericht: systematisch geordnetes Repertorium der botanischen Literatur aller Länder , which was first published in 1874. Müller’s review of Cross and self fertilisation appeared in Jenaer Literaturzeitung 1877, …
To George Bentham 8 December 1876
Summary
Asks GB to send him flowers of the two forms of Boronia pinnata, as he is republishing his papers on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers].
Sends copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 717) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10706 |
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- … letter of 10 July 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). He had studied the floral structure of some species of Boronia and noted great differences in the length of styles and stamens in Boronia pinnata . Boronia is a genus in the family Rutaceae (rue and citrus). CD incorporated material from his papers on dimorphic and trimorphic plants published in the 1860s ( ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ , ‘Three sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum ’ , ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ , ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’ , and ‘Specific difference in Primula ’ ) into Forms of flowers , published in July 1877 ( …
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| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Heckel, Édouard | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Heckel, Édouard | (2) |
| Müller, Hermann | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
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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- … no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
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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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … The origin of language was investigated in a wide range of disciplines in the nineteenth century. …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 …
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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Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … The following extracts and selected letters explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual …
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…
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Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
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- … Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a …
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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Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
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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- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
