From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
Matches: 23 hits
- … p. 437. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 September …
- … see Guy 1983 and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from E. A. Darwin, 1 February [1864] …
- … 3 and 5; see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 ). …
- … undertaken (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 …
- … p. 78. See Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] and n. …
- … conditions (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] , letter from …
- … pp. 708–9 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1864] ). …
- … the Royal Society (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Elizabeth Juliana Sabine, 7 …
- … 1: 816–41). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1864] . …
- … to the book (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April …
- … June 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 21 June 1864 , …
- … for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] ). In …
- … House MS); see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to John Lubbock, 19 November [1864] ). …
- … plant Nepenthes (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 , …
- … James Veitch (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and [ …
- … Melastomataceae). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26–7 April …
- … in September 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 September …
- … 1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, [ c. 23 September …
- … Hooker in his letter of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12) that he expected to …
- … distribution in his letter of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). Hooker and CD …
- … 816. In his letter to Hooker of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD reported …
- … 3. In his letter to Hooker of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD had asked …
- … 12, Appendix II) that he had finished the paper on climbing plants on 15 September; however, he continued his observations and made small changes to the manuscript until it was sent to the Linnean Society of London on 18 January (see letter …
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4751 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … for Scott (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] and [ …
- … 28 August 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 , …
- … alterations (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] , and …
- … to Asa Gray (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] ). Gray …
- … read the paper (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [ …
- … to review it (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] , …
- … 3 June 1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 28 May 1864 ). CD and …
- … 10 June 1863 , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] , and …
- … support (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 ). Scott …
- … Scott at Down (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1864] ). He …
- … duties (see Correspondence vol. 12, enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April …
- … 1863] ). In his letter of 16 May [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), Scott remarked: ‘the …
- … letter from John Scott has not been found. He had left his position at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in March 1864 and, on the advice of CD and Joseph Dalton Hooker , decided to seek employment in India (see Correspondence vol. 12). …
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … See Correspondence vol. 12, letters to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] and [4 December …
- … Westwood (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 ). …
- … Cantab. ; see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 April – 19 May …
- … 1 and 3). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. O. Westwood, 2 December 1864 . CD …
- … A44a–b); see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] . There is an …
- … 333–5. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] , and …
- … OED ). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] . In Walsh …
- … pp. 138–41 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 April [– 19 May] …
- … of Walsh 1864c (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 ); …
- … and 19, above, and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] …
- … p. 341). See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 . …
- … Bombus copulation in Correspondence vol. 12, letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] . …
- … the frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 12; see also letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May …
- … paper in his letter to Walsh of 4 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). CD wrote an …
- … vol. 5, letter from T. V. Wollaston, 2 March [1855] and nn. 11 and 12, and Wollaston …
- … in his letter to B. D. Walsh, [4 December 1864? ] ( Correspondence vol. 12). Thomas …
- … 12 and Appendix IV). The award was announced in the January 1865 issue of the American Journal of Science and Arts , p. 114. See letter …
- … letter from Asa Gray, 7 July 1863 . The journal was known as ‘Silliman’s Journal’ after its founder and first editor, Benjamin Silliman. Walsh refers to the footnote on pp. 191–2 of ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ ( Collected papers 2: 125, 130–1), which begins with a reference to Origin 3d ed. , p. 101, where CD expressed his belief that in all plant and animal reproduction distinct individuals at least occasionally cross together. See also n. 12, …
From John Scott 10 April 1865
Summary
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4810 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Scott 1864c (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. …
- … 1864c to CD for comments (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from John Scott , 28 March …
- … March 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. …
- … 1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. 16. CD …
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 …
- … on 4 February 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, 5 February …
- … its contents (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] , and …
- … and otherwise, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to John Scott, 10 June 1864 , n. 1, …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letters from John Scott , [after 12] April [1863] and 21 May [ …
- … available from 12 June 1865 (see Freeman 1977 , p. 117). In a missing letter to Scott ( …
- … 12–16, and Orchids 2d ed. , pp. 167–71). Scott had taken a position at Rungbee, a Cinchona plantation near Darjeeling, India, in December 1864 (see letter …
- … letter of 10 June [1864] ). CD communicated both papers to the Linnean Society in June 1864. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ . Scott is comparing CD’s work on the trimorphic Lythrum with CD’s work on the structure and functions of the reproductive organs in the dimorphic Primula , ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ , which had stimulated Scott’s study of this genus ( Scott 1864b ). For Scott and CD’s discussions of the Primulaceae, see Correspondence vols. 10–12. …
To Henry Holland 6 November [1864]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.
Discusses his long period of ill health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | Peter Harrington (dealer) (September 2020) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4661F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s travels, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] , nn. …
- … Medal in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] ). …
- … Spencer 1860–2 ; see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] …
- … and the letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). The Royal …
To W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864]
Summary
Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [19 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5333 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] . William had …
- … some time (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 …
- … annotations, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] . For …
- … vol. 12). For CD’s interest in Rhamnus (buckthorn), see ibid. , letter from H. E. …
- … letters from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and [20 May 1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 February [1864]
Summary
Returns WBT’s box of skulls. One or two skulls may be elsewhere, but CD does not have the strength to search for them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 2 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5389 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … months of 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 25 February [1864] and …
- … Covent Garden (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 1 February …
- … of crossed fowls (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 1 February …
- … nn. 5 and 7). In his letter of 1 February 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12), Tegetmeier had …
- … the letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 1 February 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). CD refers …
From Alfred Newton 31 October 1863
Summary
Tells CD where to pick up the partridge’s foot with the ball of earth attached; sends a copy of his remarks on the same. [See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 13 (1864): 99–101.]
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4326 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Museum . See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Alfred Newton, 29 March [1864] , and …
- … 63/’. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Alfred Newton, 29 March [1864] . Newton …
- … 1863] . See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864 , …
- … DNB ). See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Alfred Newton, 2 April 1864 , and …
From A. R. Wallace 31 January [1865]
Summary
Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.
Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4759 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … not been found (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 January 1864 ; …
- … in May 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and …
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 , …
- … 12, Appendix III). Wallace refers to ‘Climbing plants’ . An abstract of the paper was read at the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865. Richard Spruce had travelled with Wallace in the Amazon basin from 1848 to 1850. Spruce continued to collect plants in South America until his return to England at the end of May 1864 ( Wallace 1905 , 1: 276–9; Spruce 1908 , 1: xxxiv–xxxv, xlvi; DNB ). CD had written to Spruce for botanical information in 1863, although this letter …
From John Scott 21 July 1865
Summary
JS has now taken post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Wishes to vindicate himself of the charge that he pursued his experiments at Edinburgh to the detriment of his work.
Apologises for poor quality of his Verbascum paper, which was written from his notes during the passage to India [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 36 (1865) pt 2: 145–74].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B120a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4876 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … superiors (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 28 March 1864 ). Hooker …
- … garden work (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, [4 April 1864] , …
- … the experiments, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to John Scott, 20 May [1864] and n. …
- … William Bennett (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] …
- … July 1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [15 May 1864] and n. …
- … 12. James McNab was curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and had been Scott’s immediate supervisor. McNab had found fault with Scott for spending too much time on his own experiments to the detriment of his regular duties (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters …
To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865]
Summary
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4916 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … pp. 205–6). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 and …
- … Botany ); see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 , and …
- … s first letter on climbing plants was the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . …
- … See the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , for the …
- … in this volume as the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August and 10 October 1865] . …
- … Müller 1865b , p. 344, and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October …
- … paper (see Müller 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October …
From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4732 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 November [1864] ). A …
- … See Correspondence vol. 12, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 November [1864] . …
- … to John Lubbock (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to John Lubbock , 19 November [1864] …
- … In his letter to Huxley of 5 November [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD encouraged him …
- … In his letter to Huxley of 5 November [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD included some …
To Charles Kingsley 2 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.
His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 2 June [1865] |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3174F |
To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865]
Summary
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 20 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4895 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … in Catasetum , see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 , …
- … is contained in the section of the 12 August 1865 letter from Fritz Müller that was later …
- … pp. 135–40). The section of Müller’s letter of 12 August 1865 in which he discussed …
- … of the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 (see letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. …
- … 1, and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . CD had not yet …
- … 344–9 ( see Müller 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October …
- … 1865] and n. 1; see also the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. 11). …
- … 2d ed. , p. 36 n. (see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] …
- … plants’ , pp. 21–2 (see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] …
- … Oliver, 17 February [1864] . The letter from Müller of 12 August 1865 is incomplete. The …
- … August [1865] when he wrote his own letter to CD on 12 August 1865 , it appears that the …
To Asa Gray 15 August [1865]
Summary
Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".
Thanks for Specularia seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4882 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1858 in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Daniel Oliver, [1 April 1864] ). …
- … of the war (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] and n. …
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] and …
- … affected. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] ). CD …
From J. D. Hooker [7–8 April 1865]
Summary
Reforms at Kew.
X Club Dinner. H. B. Wilson and J. W. Colenso as guests.
Troubled by Lubbock’s going into Parliament – loss to science.
Has written to Busk.
Sending Botanische Zeitung.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7–8 Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4807 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Trimen in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to Roland Trimen , 13 May 1864 and …
- … curator, see also Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] and …
- … his defence funds. See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from E. A. Darwin, 1 February [ …
- … of the X Club, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 April [1865] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 April [ …
- … in his letters of [2 April 1864] and 8 April 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). Smith became …
- … his letters of [2 April 1864], [4 June 1864], and 15 June 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343 |
From Fritz Müller 31 August 1865
Summary
Hopes CD has received his letter of 12 August.
Sends some new observations on climbing plants. [The observations are part of "Notes on some of the climbing-plants, near Desterro, in South Brazil", J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9.]
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 73–4. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4885A |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Hopes CD has received his letter of 12 August. Sends some new observations on climbing …
- … of the letter, see the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . …
- … See also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 11. …
- … vol. 13, Appendix I. See also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a …
- … vol. 13, p. 227. See also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. ‘ …
- … Climbing plants’ . See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . For …
From J. T. Moggridge 10 May [1866]
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5084 |
From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865
Summary
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4838 |
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Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
Summary
You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
Matches: 1 hits
- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
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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 …
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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
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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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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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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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Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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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 …
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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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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
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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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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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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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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
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Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
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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,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
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Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …