To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … 4 August [1863] , and letter from Asa …
- … 4 August [1863] , and letter from Asa …
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 11, letters to Asa Gray , 26 June [1863] and …
- … 31 March [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letters to Asa Gray , 2 January [1863] and …
- … 1862 , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] and n. 14). …
- … Gray, 1 September 1863 , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [ …
- … 1862] , Correspondence vol. 11, letter to W. E. Darwin, [5 May 1863] and n. 6, and …
- … 1863 ). See also Colp 1978 . For CD’s correspondence with Gray about the American Civil War and his opposition to slavery, see the letter …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 March 1857] and n. 4. CD refers to Gray’s review of a translation of Mohl 1863 …
- … letter from Charles Kingsley, 14 June 1865 ). ‘Climbing plants’ begins with an acknowledgment of Gray’s study of the movements of the tendrils of cucurbitaceous plants ( A. Gray 1858 ) for stimulating CD’s interest in the subject. CD had been regularly corresponding with Gray on this subject since 1863 ( …
- … letter from Asa Gray, 15 and 17 May 1865 ); his observations on dimorphism in this genus were made primarily with the locally available P. lanceolata (see Forms of flowers , pp. 306–7). CD’s notes on P. lanceolata , dated from 28 April to 14 June 1863, …
- … 1863 , pp. 309, 321) that the existence of small, imperfectly formed, closed, self-fertile flowers in Viola , Oxalis , and other genera was an argument against CD’s view that nature was arranged to prevent perpetual self-fertilisation and to promote intercrossing (see Origin , pp. 96–101, and Orchids , p. 359). In his review, Gray agreed with Mohl that these examples stood as exceptions to CD’s argument, but he did not consider Mohl to have overthrown the general principle. On CD’s answer to Mohl’s criticisms, see the letter …
From Henry Walter Bates 28 January 1865
Summary
Pleased at receiving CD’s letter.
HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19].
He is pleased with his post [Asst. Sec. of Royal Geographical Society].
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4756 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Bates, 24 January 1863 , letter to H. W. …
- … Bates, 26 January [1863] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ). She had …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from H. W. Bates, 29 September 1863 , and Curle 1954 , …
- … Sarah Ann Mason on 19 January 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from H. W. …
- … letter. HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) …
- … 1863): 315–18 ( Gerstaecker 1863a ). The journal was founded by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann in 1835. CD had encouraged Bates to publish his researches on butterflies (see Correspondence vol. 9, letters …
To Friedrich Rolle 6 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks FR for copy [of first number] of Der Mensch [1866].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Date: | 6 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4829 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 , and letter to Friedrich Rolle, 30 January [1863] . …
- … 1863 ; see Correspondence vol. 10). For Rolle’s work in popularising CD’s views, see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … letter from Friedrich Rolle, 28 January 1866 , in which Rolle states that he sent the first part of Rolle 1866 to CD the previous summer. The copyist has written ‘1863’ …
From Eliza Meteyard 17 November 1865
Summary
Returns 19 of the letters CD lent her, so that he can choose one for the Autographic Mirror.
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4937 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 13 March 1865
Summary
Will return page on pigeons.
Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.
The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4785 |
From Charles Lyell 16 January 1865
Summary
His view of Origin.
Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.
Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.
A’s view of humming-birds.
Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.
New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 384–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4746 |
From Julius von Haast 27 September 1865
Summary
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4900 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … photograph of CD in his letter of 21 July [ – 7? August] 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11). …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January 1863 and n. 1), and an …
- … Island) to the west coast in May 1863 (see ibid. , letter from Julius von Haast, 13 May …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letters from Julius von Haast , 5 March 1863 and 21 July [– 7? …
- … Haast , 21 July [–7? August 1863] and n. 13, and letter from Emma Darwin to Julius von …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November 1863] ; CD’s lightly …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 September 1862 and n. 4). CD’s most recent papers in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) were ‘Climbing plants’ (in the double issue dated 12 June 1865), ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ (12 December 1864), and ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ (13 May 1863). …
- … 1863 , and H. F. von Haast 1948 , pp. 199–219). For Haast’s description of the moraines, see J. F. J. von Haast 1879 , pp. 93–4. For CD’s interest in Haast’s earlier report on New Zealand glaciers, see Correspondence vol. 12, letters …
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Summary
Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].
Describes his situation in Calcutta.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4751 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). In his letter of …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ). CD received a revised …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and Correspondence vol. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 …
- … letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 May 1865 ). The item from the Edinburgh Evening Courant has not been identified. John Hutton Balfour was regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Scott’s relations with his superiors at the Garden were apparently strained after he failed to accept an appointment in Darjeeling offered to him by Balfour in May 1863 ( …
To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865]
Summary
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4794 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] , and letter from Charles …
- … evolution in his letter to the Athenæum , 18 April [1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11). CD …
- … 1863 ). This instance of behavioural change in pigeons observed by Skirving is cited in Variation 1: 181. CD was evidently collecting information on ‘Gradation & Abnormal Habits’; see annotations to the letter …
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
From Frederick Ransome 6 March 1865
Summary
Requests a postponement of payment on a note for £100.
| Author: | Frederick Ransome |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4780 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Ansted, 15 April 1863 , and letter from D. T. …
- … vol. 11, CD memorandum, 14 February 1863 and nn. 1 and 2, letter to D. T. …
- … 1863 , and this volume, Supplement, CD Memorandum, July 1857 and n. 1. In 1848, Ransome invented the artificial sandstone that the Patent Siliceous Stone Company was founded to manufacture ( Modern English biography ; Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 115 (1894): 402–4). He was also patentee and general manager of the Patent Concrete Stone Company ( Post Office London directory 1866). Ransome was attempting to launch the Patent Concrete Stone Company at new premises (see letter …
From Thomas Rivers 6 July 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].
Encloses sketch of a climbing French bean.
Tells of a row of non-climbing haricot beans that in good season put out slender climbing shoots.
He has the peach almond in fruit this season.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4866 |
From Edward Cresy 18 October 1865
Summary
How did CD handle his sons’ expenses at Cambridge?
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4918 |
From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865
Summary
Reports Lincoln’s murder.
The end of Civil War is in sight.
Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 and 17 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4833 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Brace 1863 ; see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to C. L. Brace, 24 June [1863] and n. …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] and n. 19). On relations …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863 and nn. 8 and 9). The …
- … affair in 1862 and 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [ …
- … letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 ). Brace was a philanthropist who worked with the underprivileged children of New York City ( Dupree 1959 , p. 361). He sent CD a copy of his book, The races of the old world. A manual of ethnology in 1863 ( …
From Samuel Butler 1 October 1865
Summary
Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.
Fascinated and delighted by Origin
and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4904 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to an editor, 24 March [1863? ] and n. 3). CD’s Scrapbook …
- … appeared on 14 March 1863. Further letters appeared in the Press on 18 …
- … October [1865] ); the letter printed in the Press , 21 February 1863, is reproduced here. …
- … the critical response of 17 January 1863. A response to this letter, signed ‘The Savoyard’ …
- … 22 June 1863, the first and last of which were signed ‘A.M. ’, while the April letter was …
- … 1863. It is not certain that Abraham was, in fact, the author (see Butler 1923 , p. 188). The enclosure was returned to Butler (see letter …
- … letters are reprinted in Butler 1923 , pp. 198–207). See the enclosure and n. 12, below, for the names of the periodicals. The reference is to Hallam 1818 . In the article of 17 January 1863, …
From Alfred Newton 27 October 1865
Summary
Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4925 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1863 ). With his letter of 31 October 1863 , Newton sent CD a copy of …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from Alfred Newton , 21 March 1863 and 31 October …
- … 1863 , part of which is in DAR 205.9: 366 and is annotated in CD’s hand. CD planted the seeds and was able to grow eighty-two plants; he included the information in Origin 4th ed. , p. 432 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
To B. D. Walsh 27 March [1865]
Summary
Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.
Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,
Rocky Mt. wingless insects,
willow hybrids,
galls,
and other subjects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4797 |
From Eliza Meteyard 25 April 1865
Summary
Sends CD the first volume of her Life of Josiah Wedgwood [2 vols. (1865–6)].
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4819 |
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: 5 hits
- … 1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letters to John Scott , 31 May [1863] and 1 …
- … Hooker in 1863, and evidently wanted to learn more of Indian species (see letter from John …
- … 1862 , Correspondence vol. 11, letters from John Scott , [after 12] April [1863] and …
- … 21 May [1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and …
- … 1863] ). In February 1864 George Bentham had suggested that Scott be put forward for election as an associate of the Linnean Society ; however, a bylaw of the society limited the election of associates to those resident in the ‘British Dominions’ (1861 Charter and Byelaws of the Linnean Society of London, Library of the Linnean Society ). The proposal was made following the reading and warm reception of Scott’s paper on the Primulaceae ( Scott 1864b ) at the Linnean Society on 4 February 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters …
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n. 5). CD’s results …
- … vol. 11, letter from John Scott, [26 July – 2 August 1863] , and this volume, memorandum …
- … on Pulmonaria in 1863 and in April and May 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from …
- … Darwin, 8 May [1863] and n. 4, and Correspondence vol. 12, letters from W. E. Darwin, …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (95) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (25) |
| Gray, Asa | (7) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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 …
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 …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
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- … The Project was contacted by the owner of an important Darwin letter that contains a rare instance …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
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 …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's …
Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels …
Darwin as mentor
Summary
Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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- … Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
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 …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment A monograph by which to work …
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 …
