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Volume appendices

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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…

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  • … on the translation tab on the letter page (an example of a Gaston de Saporta letter is here ). …
  • … German poems presented to Charles Darwin in February 1877 25 VII …

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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  • …   ‘Very curious results’ In May 1877, Darwin asked one of his most trusted …
  • … of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877] ). ‘ I do not believe I sh d . …
  • … than close friends, Darwin was more circumspect; he told Gaston de Saporta, ‘ I am at present …
  • … when there were conflicts. After reading a paper by Hugo de Vries in which the author remarked that …
  • … could have been so much at odds ( letter to Hugo de Vries 13 February 1879 ). He was reassured by …
  • … also mentioned he wanted to visit the laboratory of Anton de Bary in Strasbourg on his way home. …
  • … in the Lake District, Darwin received a long letter from De Vries detailing his latest research on …
  • … & refer to your evidence before the Spring ’. Luckily, De Vries published two papers in 1879 …
  • … those of Gray, who had written an article on the subject in 1877 (A. Gray 1877e). Gray had reported …
  • … Just before he left, he received a copy of Alphonse de Candolle’s  Phytographie  (A. de Candolle …

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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  • mammoth and cave bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although
  • … ( Origin , p. 484). Owen preferred Jean Baptiste de Lamarcks explanation of the origin of life: …
  • Appendix III), and of the Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel ( see letter from La Société …
  • but he was happy that the respected Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle sent information on the
  • in France. Candolle had sent his monograph on oaks (A. de Candolle 1862b), which included a
  • calledprudent reservations’ ( letters to Alphonse de Candolle, 14 January [1863] and 31