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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…
List of correspondents
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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,…
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- … "A child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … Ansell, G. F. (1) Ansted, D. T. (8) …
- … Paul (1) Austen, J. T. (5) Austin, A …
- … Bacon, Booth (1) Badger, E. W. (3) …
- … Barber, M. E. (1) Baring, F. T. (1) …
- … Baynes, H. M. (1) Baynes, T. S. (1) …
- … Beale, L. S. (2) Beall, T. B. (1) …
- … Wilhelm (4) Beke, C. T. (1) Beke, …
- … A. L. B. (1) Blackwell, T. E. (1) …
- … Blore, E. W. (1) Blow, T. B. (1) …
- … Marcellin de (1) Bonney, T. G. (2) …
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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- … red cabbage were traced over time: ‘Bristle was gummed to 1 Cot. & beyond it a triangular bit 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 work …
- … ‘One general law or system’ In the early 1860s, at a time when his health was especially …
- … and plants under domestication , eventually published in 1868, became too strenuous. His paper, ‘On …
- … in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) in 1865, and was an attempt to explain the …
- … from correspondents in response to the work, and by 1873 began preparing a second edition, which …
- … in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, 7 February 1875 ). While Climbing plants focused …
- … no stranger to physiology in contexts other than botany. His 1872 work, Expression of the emotions …
- … in his seminal handbook on experimental physiology of 1865. Sachs, who spent six years at the …
- … his laboratory in the botanical institute at Würzburg in 1868. His Lehrbuch der Botanik …
- … the standard work of plant physiology, and by the early 1870s, Sachs’s laboratory was attracting …
- … son Francis worked in this laboratory in the summers of 1878 and 1879, he encountered some of the …
- … because Darwin never published on bloom. In August 1873, while on holiday in Southampton at the home …
- … by bloom, but his main preoccupation in the summer of 1873 was his experimental work on …
- … themselves from the injurious effects of water. By November 1873, he was already devising …
- … ‘ I have never syringed (with tepid water) more than 1 leaf per day; but if it dies, I shall feel …
- … between 45 o & 90 o to the horizon ’. By May 1874, Thiselton-Dyer had observed some …
- … was reported by Francis, who added that Sachs ‘ doesn’t think very much of Pfeffer, that is he says …
- … Frank’s ‘Transversal-Heliotropismus’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, 10 February [1880] ). …
- … many of the caustic ones were bent—so Sachs doesn’t believe in it a bit; he says the growth is …
- … ‘ I am very sorry that Sachs is so sceptical, for I w d . rather convert him than any other half …
- … as ‘little discs’ and ‘greenish bodies’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 October 1879 ). …
- … that he had not been able to observe earlier ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 November 1879 ). …
- … decided to translate the work into German. Darwin needn’t have worried. Carus was ‘most happy to …
- … pay more for at the usual rate of charging per inch &c they w d . be over £40’; he suggested …
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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Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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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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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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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,…
