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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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- … , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and …
- … from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The year 1877 was more than usually full of honours. …
- … species such as Primula , Linum , and Lythrum . ‘I will rank no plant as dimorphic without …
- … flowers’, Darwin complained to Asa Gray on 8 March , ‘I never look at one without feeling …
- … of respect and affection’. He hinted as much in his letter of 4 June : ‘you will see I have done …
- … his book, writing to Robert Cooke on 11 April , ‘though I believe it is of value, it is not …
- … in the spring, writing to Fritz Müller on 14 May , ‘I have made many observations on the waxy …
- … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
- … have shared Hooker’s suspicion of ambitious gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August …
- … assumed by leaves at night to protect them from cold. Lynch carefully observed the phenomenon in a …
- … … tap one of the young leaves with a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). …
- … but I think the great honour of its being printed in the R. Soc. Transactions, (sh d . the …
- … , or to the vibratory flagella of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). …
- … wrote to the editor, George Croom Robertson, on 27 April 1877 , ‘I hope that you will be so good …
- … had written to the editor Ernst Ludwig Krause on 30 June 1877 , ‘I have been much interested by …
- … his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October …
- … larger aim was announced in the subtitle: Zeitschrift für einheitliche Weltanschauung auf Grund …
- … the Westphalian Provincial Society for Science and Art. In a letter to Darwin written before 16 …
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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- … had considered combining the works in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, 7 February 1875 ). …
- … son William, Darwin wrote to his friend Thomas Farrer, ‘ I am now become mad about drops of water …
- … to put a pod of a common pea, or a raspberry into water. I find several leaves are thus protected on …
- … Hooker, who had also speculated on the topic, replied, ‘ I can quite fancy water impeding both the …
- … wetted, & only a few are protected by a waxy secretion, I cannot but think that these latter …
- … albida from Kew Gardens, he explained to Hooker, ‘ I have never syringed (with tepid water) more …
- … species in the genus Opuntia , and could report, ‘ I confess I was astonished at the readines …
- … ‘Very curious results’ In May 1877, Darwin asked one of his most trusted …
- … rain so as to shoot off the water; & if there are any such I should be very glad of a leaf or …
- … with mechanical irritation and spontaneous movement. Richard Lynch, the foreman of the propagation …
- … , a plant that exhibited all three types of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July …
- … the woodblock using photography for scientific accuracy ( letter from J. D. Cooper, 13 December …
- … lost colour, withered, and died within a couple of days ( letter from A. F. Batalin, 28 February …
- … how their observations could have been so much at odds ( letter to Hugo de Vries 13 February 1879 …
- … the botanist Gaetano Durando, to find plants and seeds ( letter to Francis Darwin, [4 February – 8 …
- … only the regulator & not cause of movement ’. In the same letter, Darwin discussed terminology, …
- … to replace Frank’s ‘Transversal-Heliotropismus’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, 10 February [1880] ). …
- … experiments and devised a new test, which he described in a letter to his mother, ‘ I did some …
- … and it appeared in 1880 (F. Darwin 1880b). In the same letter, Francis revealed the frustration of …
- … on holiday in the Lake District, Darwin received a long letter from De Vries detailing his latest …
- … those of Gray, who had written an article on the subject in 1877 (A. Gray 1877e). Gray had reported …
- … the curious mode of germination ’ and concluded, ‘ M r Rattan seems to be a real good observer, …
- … or ‘The Nature of the Movements of Plants’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 23 April [1880] ). Cooke …
- … was willing to publish on the usual terms ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 15 July 1880 ). This was also …
