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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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- … in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project …
- … on 30 January 1868. In April 1868, Darwin informed George Bentham, ‘I am experimenting on a …
- … of orchids are quite intelligible to me’ ( To George Bentham, 22 April 1868 ). A month later, he …
- … heights would be useful. He asked his mathematician son George whether it would be ‘an easy …
- … the self-fertilised’ ( To G. H. Darwin, 8 January [1876] ). George explained the difficulties of …
- … equal value.’ ( From G. H. Darwin, [after 8 January 1876] ). It was his cousin, the statistician …
- … introduction to the book ( To Francis Galton, 13 January [1876] ). Joseph Henry …
- … on yet another experimental aspect of his work. In February 1876, he wrote to the agricultural …
- … in a state of nature’ ( To J. H. Gilbert, 16 February 1876 ). Darwin wanted to try to remove all …
- … soil to remove nutrients ( From J. H. Gilbert, 4 March 1876 ). In June 1876, Darwin had supposedly …
- … samples differed ( To Edward Frankland, [before 6 June 1876] ). The project proved to be too …
- … am convinced that the book is of value’ By August 1876, the book had gone to press and …
- … shall ever do on this subject’ ( To Asa Gray, 9 August 1876 ). As Darwin began correcting …
- … I would suggest 1,500’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 16 September 1876 ). In the meantime, a happy event, the …
- … it too much for you’ ( To Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] ). Francis must have found some …
- … slightly modified’ ( To Francis Darwin, 20 September [1876] ). Darwin continued to send work, …
- … & very useful’ ( To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876] ). At the end of September …
- … early in November’ ( To J. V. Carus, 27 September 1876 ). The title had now changed from that …
- … alone worth reading. ( To Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ). Hermann Müller, in contrast, wrote …
- … Pedecino, and Comes ( From Hermann Müller, 4 October 1876 ). Gray was impatient for a copy …
- … had not yet been released ( From Asa Gray, 12 October 1876 ). Darwin sent the sheets, apologised …
- … that of almost anyone else’ ( To Asa Gray, 28 October 1876 ). Gray reassured him, ‘I have as yet …
- … faultless as your temper’ ( From Asa Gray, 12 November 1876 ). The book was published on 10 …
- … 6 or 700 would sell.’ ( To John Murray, 15 November 1876 ). In fact, Murray sold 1100 copies of …
- … for science’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 6 December 1876 ). After reading the book, Hildebrand …
- … Most published reviews that appeared were also positive, but George Henslow, in his review in …
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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- … was gathering support in influential scientific circles. George Bentham devoted the first part of …
- … could not satisfy himself on all points ( see letter from George Bentham, 21 April 1863 ). …
- … on species, though so cleverly written’ ( letter to George Bentham, 19 June [1863] ). …
- … the Severn Valley Naturalists Field Club ( see letter from George Maw, 19 February 1863 ). Other …
- … Oliver for references on phyllotaxy, and setting his son George, the mathematician in the family, to …
- … a German botanist in Trinidad, and continued writing to George Henry Kendrick Thwaites, the director …
- … noted in ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’. George contributed his mathematical …
- … Malvern Wells, Darwin stopped in London overnight to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor …
- … that even writing the letter was ‘against rules’. George Busk had diagnosed Darwin as having …
- … specialist at St Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). …
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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- … Darwin began to receive remarks on his Primula paper. George Bentham confessed, ‘ Your …
- … be a gem ’. During this time, Darwin also took up Bentham’s suggestion to study the small …
- … Cross and self fertilisation was published in November 1876, Darwin decided to rework his papers …
- … apetalous unopened flowers, like those of Viola , that Bentham had pointed out fifteen years …
Jane Gray
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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … exchanged letters in her own name with botanists such as George Bentham and Francis Boott. In one …
- … ladies and a few gentlemen’ (letter to Jane Gray from George Bentham, 10 March 1852. Archives of …
- … hurrah, 2795 games. (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ) And an entry in Jane …
- … days after leaving Down. Two of the Darwins’ sons, George and Francis, saw the Grays when …
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…
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- … in three parts in the Pall Mall Gazette , was by George Henry Lewes, well-known in London’s …
- … very fruitful. On 1 May , Darwin received a letter from George Cupples, who was encouraged to …
- … advice from the entomologist and librarian at Cambridge, George Robert Crotch, writing to his mother …
- … Darwin passed Wallace’s pages over to his son George, now a Cambridge-trained mathematician, who …
- … the expression of natives faces as I meet them,’ wrote George Henry Kendrick Thwaites on 1 April …
- … for fellowship of the Linnean Society ( letter from George Bentham, [after 29 September 1868] ). …
- … now in life’. In January, the family learned the news that George’s performance on the mathematical …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … to make observations on American species. Hooker and George Bentham at Kew were also tapped …
- … book!’, wrote Daniel Oliver on 14 May, and George Bentham pronounced it ‘most valuable’ (letter …
- … ). Moreover, it apparently worked. Gray told Darwin that George Bentham’s presidential address to …
- … his children to help with his botanical observations. George earned his father’s commendation for …
- … some observations. William, with the help of his brothers George and Francis, who were staying with …
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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- … of working out his ideas on the transmutation of species. In 1876, long after this period of Darwin …
- … Life [Chesterton 1856] } [DAR *128: 159] Bentham has published list of Pyrenes …
- … Notes to Jardine & Jesses Selbourne [E. Jesse ed. 1849] George’s Copy Aug. St. Hilaire. …
- … L. Ossoy [Walpole 1848] 1 st vol. —— History George III [Walpole 1845]. 1. vol. —— …
- … May 28 th . Delineations of the Ox Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. …
- … 1841 . Oxford. 119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851. Letters …
- … etc. 2 vols. London. *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860. Gatherings of a naturalist in …
- … . Edinburgh and London. [Other eds.] 128: 9 Bentham, George. 1826. Catalogue des plantes …
- … ou peu connues . Paris. *128: 159 Berkeley, George. 1784. The works of George Berkeley …
- … [Abstract in DAR 71: 150–1.] 128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843. The Bible in Spain; or …
- … sketches of statesmen who flourished in the time of George III . 3 pts. London. 119: 21b …
- … London. [Other eds.] 119: 3a Browne, William George. 1799. Travels in Africa, Egypt and …
- … and London. 119: 9a Bubb, afterwards Dodington, George. 1784. The diary of the late …
- … atlases. Paris. *119: 5v. [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton]. 1835. Rienzi, …
- … and reason. Edinburgh. *119: 11v. Busk, George. 1852–4. Catalogue of marine …
- … 1835 to 1847 . 2 vols. London. 128: 8 Byron, George Gordon Noel. 1813. The Giaour, a …
- … England from the earliest times till the reign of King George IV. 7 vols. London. *119: 22, …
- … and French. 2 vols. London. 128: 16 Catlin, George. 1841. Letters and notes on the …
- … 3 vols. Paris. [Other eds.] 119: 9a Chesterton, George Laval. 1856. Revelations of …
- … [Abstract in DAR 71: 164–5.] 119: 15a Combe, George. 1828. The constitution of man …
- … of England, from the earliest times to the death of George II by Oliver Goldsmith. The 11th …
- … trees . Philadelphia. *119: 4v. Crabbe, George. 1807. Poems . London. [Other eds.] …
- … les mêmes parages . Paris. 119: 5a Culley, George. 1786. Observations on live stock, …
- … London. 119: 7a, 13a Cumming, Roualeyn George Gordon. 1850. Five years of a hunter …
- … . London. [Darwin Library.] 119: 22a Dixon, George, ed. 1789. A voyage round the world; …
- … which is prefixed a sketch of his life . Edited by George Bentham and John Lindley. London. *119: …
