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To the Spectator 11 January 1873
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Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Spectator |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | Spectator, 18 January 1873, p. 76. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8731 |
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3.7 Leonard Darwin, photo on verandah
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< Back to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down House, Leonard Darwin’s photograph of him sitting in a wicker chair on the verandah was originally just a family memento. However, as Darwin’s high…
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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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- … heavily on his son Francis, who had made the decision in 1873 to abandon his medical studies and …
- … and the local vicar George Sketchley Ffinden resurfaced. In 1873, Charles and Emma Darwin and the …
- … a favourable review of Insectivorous plants for the Spectator , and took up the subject …
- … on the digestive properties of Nepenthes since 1873. ‘You are aware that Dr Hooker has worked …
