To Hermann Müller 20 September 1878
Summary
Writing on vegetable physiology.
Nothing in CD’s life has ever interested him more than the fertilisation of such plants as Primula and Lythrum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 439 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11698 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 February [1878]
Summary
Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.
Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11344 |
From Carl Kraus 10 February 1878
Summary
Thanks for photograph.
Sends birthday greetings.
Regrets CD has not lately published in Kosmos.
Requests photograph of CD’s family.
| Author: | Carl (Charles) Kraus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11351 |
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- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel ). In 1877, a photograph album of German and Austrian …
- … vol. 25, letter from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 ); the album is at Down House. …
- … of an infant’ had appeared in Kosmos 1 (1877): 367–76. The full title of the journal was …
To ? 2 January 1878
Summary
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308A |
To W. J. Beal 21 May 1878
Summary
Thanks for his notice of Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William James Beal |
| Date: | 21 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections (W. J. Beal Papers UA.17.4 box 891 folder 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11519 |
From Alfred Moschkau 26 March 1878
Summary
Describes hereditary defect in ear muscle.
Discusses influence of wet nurse on infant.
Describes talking starlings.
| Author: | Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11446 |
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- … at University of Cambridge on 17 November 1877 ( LL 3: 222). In an address to the German …
- … proven, especially with regard to the origins of life (see Virchow 1877 , and Nature , …
- … 22 November 1877, pp. …
- … John Murray. 1868. Virchow, Rudolf. 1877. Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat: …
- … und Aerzte zu München am 22. September 1877. 2d edition. Berlin: Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey. …
- … 73–4, 29 November 1877, pp. 93–4). For more on the controversy over Virchow’s address, see …
From Richard Randolph 23 August 1878
Summary
Sends pamphlet.
Thanks CD for his reply.
| Author: | Richard Randolph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11673 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 July [1878]
Summary
Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 19 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 137–40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11616 |
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- … which had been coined by Henry Jackson in 1877 (see Correspondence vol. 25, …
- … from Henry Jackson to Francis Darwin, 18 November 1877 ; Movement in plants , p. 5). …
- … Arachis hypogaea (peanut) from Kew in July 1877 (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 July [1877] , n. 2). The plant did not flourish, and CD had already …
To Wallis Nash 29 May 1878
Summary
Comments on WN’s Oregon: there and back (1878).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Wallis Nash |
| Date: | 29 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11533 |
To Francis Darwin 12 September [1878]
Summary
Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.
Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.
Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11690 |
From Hermenegildo Giner de los Ríos 12 August 1878
Summary
The secretary of the Comision de Propaganda of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Madrid, asks CD to send list of his publications to the Society.
| Author: | Hermenegildo Giner de los Ríos |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.2: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11653A |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 May [1878]
Summary
CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 9 May [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 119–21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11499 |
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- … Correspondence vol. 25, letters from R. I. Lynch, 25 July 1877 and the first and second …
- … letters of [before 28 July 1877]. Cacteae (a synonym of Cactaceae) is the family of cacti; …
- … had been sent seeds of Cycas in November 1877 and February 1878 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 25, letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 November [1877] , and this volume, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To R. D. Fitzgerald 7 October 1878
Summary
Thanks for pt 4 of Australian orchids [1874–].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11719 |
To A. S. Wilson 23 February 1878
Summary
Thanks for specimen of Aegilops flour.
Comments on ASW’s papers.
Cites paper by Wilhelm Rimpau on self- and cross-fertilisation in wheat ["Die Züchtung neuer Getreide-Varietäten", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 361 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11372 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1878
Summary
Sends specimens.
Sensitive plants.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11612 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 11 July 1878]
Summary
Refers to Charles Lagrange, who is working on the same subject as GHD, but in a fundamentally different way.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 11 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11600 |
From Arnold Dodel-Port 12 June 1878
Summary
Comments on publication of his Atlas der Botanik [1878]. Discusses possible English edition. Draws CD’s attention to plates of Drosera in Atlas. Mentions contribution offered by Hermann Müller, and support by German professors of botany.
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11552 |
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- … two early plates from the atlas to CD in 1877 (see n. 6, below) and CD had found them ‘ …
- … 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids : On the various contrivances by …
- … 25, letter to Arnold Dodel-Port, 6 July 1877 ). The German edition was published by J. F. …
- … 25, letter from Arnold Dodel-Port, 3 July 1877 and n. 4). Dodel-Port had previously sent …
- … 25, letter from Arnold Dodel-Port, 3 July 1877 . CD had made major studies of the genera …
To Raphael Meldola 3 January 1878
Summary
Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.
Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11309 |
From G. J. Romanes 10 September 1878
Summary
Thanks for letter and book [J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1878 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11687 |
From Raphael Meldola 1 November 1878
Summary
Thanks for agreeing to write the preface for RM’s translation of Weismann.
Will arrange to meet CD when he comes to London.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11733 |
| letter | (177) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (84) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (6) |
| Torbitt, James | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (90) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (10) |
| Darwin, Francis | (9) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (6) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (174) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (14) |
| Darwin, Francis | (13) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (11) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (7) |
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
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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
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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…
