From Asa Gray 6 February 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10830 |
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- … From Asa Gray 6 February 1877 …
- … DAR 165: 193 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 6 Feb 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids 2d ed. : The various contrivances by …
- … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … Cambridge Feb. 6, 1877 Dear Darwin Specimens in herb. glued down had to detach & present …
- … see letter to Asa Gray, 23 January 1877 and n. 3). See also Forms of flowers , pp. …
- … see the letter to Asa Gray, 23 January 1877 and n. 2. Gray had requested proof-sheets of …
From Asa Gray 27 September 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11155 |
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- … From Asa Gray 27 September 1877 …
- … DAR 165: 198 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 27 Sept 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids 2d ed. : The various contrivances by …
- … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … Cambridge, Mass. Sept. 27. 1877 My Dear Darwin Returning from our 10 1 2 weeks of travel— …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 4 June [1877] . Gray’s name is on the presentation list for Forms …
- … Mountains (see letter from Asa Gray, 10 June 1877 and n. 5). After receiving a copy of …
- … from Cohn’s letter in Nature ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 , and letter to …
- … Nature , 15 August [1877] and nn. 2–4). For their survey of the vegetation of the Rocky …
From Asa Gray 6 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].
Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.
Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10880 |
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- … From Asa Gray 6 March 1877 …
- … DAR 165: 194 Asa Gray Herbarium of Harvard 6 Mar 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … fertilisation [ Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough. Has heard of …
- … Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 by John Murray ( …
- … Publishers’ Circular , 1 February 1877, p. 93). CD praised Gray’s abstract of Cross and …
- … eviscerated it’ in his letter of 18 February [1877] . Benjamin Silliman Jr was one of the …
- … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
From Asa Gray 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10837 |
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From Asa Gray 3 February 1878
Summary
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11343 |
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- … those Gray and CD described; see A. Gray 1877 and letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January …
- … Bibliography Cook, Joseph. 1877. Boston Monday lectures. Biology, with preludes on current …
- … with preludes on current events ( J. Cook 1877 ) appeared in the New Englander 37 (1878): …
- … evolution rather than CD’s (see J. Cook 1877 , pp. 1–32). For CD’s comment on the review, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Meehan, Thomas. 1875. Are insects any …
- … the Advancement of Science 24: 243–51. Meehan, Thomas. 1877. Darwin on the fertilization …
- … of flowers. Penn Monthly , June 1877, pp. 463–71. Movement in plants : The power of …
- … Jackson to Francis Darwin, 18 November 1877 ). For a previous discussion between Gray and …
- … married Sara Sedgwick , an American, in 1877; see letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January …
- … of Cross and self fertilisation ( Meehan 1877 ) and Meehan’s earlier paper on the role of …
- … vol. 25, letter to Thomas Meehan, 5 July [1877] , and Correspondence vol. 23, letter to …
- … Müller, 26 October 1875 . In the summer of 1877, Gray and his wife, Jane Loring Gray , had …
From Asa Gray 10 June 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994 |
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From Asa Gray 22 May 1877
Summary
Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10969 |
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- … From Asa Gray 22 May 1877 …
- … 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196 Asa Gray Herbarium of Harvard 22 May 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … not dimorphic ( letter from Asa Gray, 30 March 1877 ). Lithospermum longiflorum and L. …
- … see also letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 , n. 2. In Forms of flowers , p. 3, CD …
From Asa Gray 30 March 1877
Summary
Lithospermum longiflorum has cleistogamous flowers and, unlike other species of genus, it is not dimorphic.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918 |
From Asa Gray 22 December 1876
Summary
Discusses some dimorphic plants.
Sends specimens of Rhamnus but his few specimens of Leucosmia are very poor.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B36–7, B74–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10731 |
From Asa Gray 11 March 1880
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.6: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12532 |
From Asa Gray 5 December 1876
Summary
Dimorphism and cleistogamy in Hottonia.
AG wants new, unambiguous term for what is now referred to as "dimorphism", "dioecio-dimorphism", or "heterostyly"; proposes "heterogone".
Sends an excerpt from Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club 2 (June 1871) on Hottonia inflata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 192, DAR 111: A92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10699 |
From Asa Gray 3 February 1880
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.6: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12455 |
From Asa Gray 22 September 1862
Summary
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 118, 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3736 |
From Asa Gray [25 February 1868 or later]
Summary
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2563 |
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- … vol. 25, letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 . Charles Lyell . CD’s reply to Gray has …
From Asa Gray 27 January 1863
Summary
Discusses the ill-will between England and U. S.
Considers the bases for deciding which plant species are "high" and which "low".
Comments on Alphonse de Candolle’s paper on oaks ["Étude sur l’espèce", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 59–110].
Encloses S. H. Scudder’s letter on Lepidoptera and fertilisation of orchids which identifies a butterfly with Platanthera pollinia adhering to it. Jokingly applies natural selection to butterflies acted on by orchid pollinia.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 129, 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3950 |
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- … 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids : On the various contrivances by …
From Asa Gray 24 July 1865
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4877 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Gray, Asa. 1865–6. On the movements and …
From Asa Gray 7 July 1863
Summary
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 127, 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4234 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. ‘Review of Bates on mimetic butterflies’: [ …
From Asa Gray 7 August 1866
Summary
Appleton’s will not print a new edition of Origin.
AG has read sheets of new English edition [4th] and is much pleased by the passage on Richard Owen in the historical sketch.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5184 |
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- … 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. Origin 4th ed. : On the origin of species …
From Asa Gray 4 August 1862
Summary
Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3679 |
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- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
From Asa Gray 11 July 1864
Summary
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4558 |
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- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
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. …
- … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
- … gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 ). At Down House, Darwin and …
- … a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). Research on movement would continue …
- … of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s paper eventually appeared …
- … 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 …
- … the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and 25 October [1877] ). …
- … and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 ). Gifts of German and Dutch …
- … Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the journal ‘an …
- … the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : ‘I suppose that every worker at …
- … of his 70th year. Darwin was in fact 68 on 12 February 1877. Distinguished guests and …
- … & smooth as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ). Hooker was asked repeatedly by …
- … & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 ). Darwin was staying in …
- … centuries to come’ ( letter from C. C. Graham, 30 January 1877 ). Graham then gave a lengthy …
- … man and of societies’ ( letter from Marcellin de Bonnal, [1877] ). A similar complaint came from …
- … by a duke!’ ( letter to J. M. Rodwell, 3 June 1877 ). Back home, he learned from his brother that …
- … order of the day’ ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 January [1877] ). Carlyle’s remarks were …
- … . In a letter from an unknown correspondent on 13 June 1877 , he was criticised for having quoted …
- … monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October 1877 ). An American banker, William Burrows …
- … back our civilization’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 17 May 1877 ). Bowles proposed that such …
- … of humanity beneath’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 18 May 1877 ). More transitional human …
- … inflexible tails ( letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January 1877 ). The American physician Jesse …
- … (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] ). Dispute and …
- … George and Francis. He wrote to Francis on 24 September 1877 about his forthcoming work, Life …
- … value’, he confessed in a letter of 25 November 1877 that the book had ‘resolved itself into a …
- … physical’ ( letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 ). Darwin was doubtful of the elephant …
1877 letters now online
Summary
Flowers, bloom, a son married . . . and a suspended monkey in Cambridge at Darwin's honorary LLD ceremony. The transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin's life in 1877…
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- … of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin& …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
Summary
The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade …
- … have ever received ( Letter to Ernst Haeckel, 16 February 1877 ) …
- … the start of his 70th year, but Darwin was only 68 in 1877. Despite this oversight, the album …
- … world.— ( Letter from Leonard Blomefield, 12 March 1877 ) Familiar faces Ernst …
- … with the final album. He wrote to Darwin on 9 February 1877 : ‘what will perhaps astonish you is …
- … worth to give you ( Letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 ) The professor of …
- … scientific work. ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an …
4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
Summary
< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…
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Photograph album of Dutch admirers
Summary
Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the …
- … lasting pleasure. ( Letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March 1877 ) Harting had also written …
- … it states his ‘69th Birthday’, when in fact he was 68 in 1877. It was arranged in alphabetical order …
- … from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 ) Dutch correspondents …
- … ( Letter from C. W. Thomson, 30 June 1877 ) Much earlier, in 1861, Tiberius Cornelis …
German and Dutch photograph albums
Summary
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…
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … of plants.’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). Hermann Müller enthused that Darwin’s …
- … my book’ ( To Gardeners’ Chronicle , 19 February [1877] ). In contrast, as Hooker told Darwin, …
- … gloats over it' ( From J. D. Hooker, 27 January 1877 ). Darwin was especially pleased with …
- … have quite eviscerated it’ ( To Asa Gray, 18 February [1877] ). By mid-March 1877, the edition was …
- … index a little altered’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). These changes were necessitated by …
- … wheat that he had studied ( From A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, …
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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- … tiredness of the later years (e.g. letter to E.M. Dicey, [1877] ). Working …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 11074: Sayce, A. H. to Darwin, C. R., 27 July 1877 Darwin’s study of human nature …
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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- … activity at the site of a Roman villa, 15 November 1877 W. T. Thiselton-Dyer's …
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … grains by a dilution method. In his letter of 9 March 1877 , Darwin wrote: ‘Your calculation of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
German poems presented to Darwin
Summary
Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
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- … (see letter from From Emil Rade , [before 16] February 1877). The poems were composed by …
- … in Rade’s account of the making of the album (Rade 1877, pp. 39–40), but the others were published …
- … Letter from Emil Rade 1 [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. …
- … From Emil Rade [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. February 1877. …
- … this letter and the letter to Emil Rade, 16 February 1877. 3. The gift was a photograph …
- … Appendix VI. A number of other poems were included in Rade 1877. …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Treat, 5 January 1872 Letter to [E. M. Dicey?], [1877] Letter to C. A. Kennard …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Exercise: Caricatures of Science
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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …
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- … Lydia Becker (1877) Caricature of Lydia Becker from …
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…
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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- … | Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a …
- … findings on floral dimorphism were eventually published in 1877, but these experiments and …
- … SOURCES Book Darwin, C. R. 1877. The different forms of flowers on plants of the …
- … experiment, the class read chapter 1 of Charles Darwin’s 1877 T he Different Forms of …
- … Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (London: John Murray, 1877), 16. [2] Ibid., 30. …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…