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To Gardeners’ Chronicle   17 January [1877]

Summary

CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  17 Jan [1877]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 20 January 1877, p. 83
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10797

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Stoneham, 11 January 1877 , letter from G. M. …
  • … Tracy, 11 January 1877 , letter from Alfred …
  • … Grugeon, 14 January [1877] , letter from F. W. …
  • … Pim, 15 January 1877 , and letter from L. E. Becker, 16 January 1877 ; see also Gardeners’ …
  • … to the letter CD had written to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 3 January [1877], which had been …
  • … spots had many berries ( letter from G. M. Tracy, 11 January 1877 ). Fish wrote a longer …
  • … in The Times , 11 January 1877, p. 7, as well as in local newpapers (see letter from Allen …

Sarazin, Jules (1831–1906)

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  • … de France (Dossier LH/2459/15) T. H. Huxley 1877 letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 April 1876 24 …

From W. E. Darwin   [15 January 1877]

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Thanks for the copy of Orchids.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Jan 1877]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10794F

Matches: 8 hits

  • … Stoneham, 11 January 1877 , letter from G. M. …
  • … Tracy, 11 January 1877 , letter from Alfred …
  • … Grugeon, 14 January [1877] , letter from F. W. Pim, 15 January 1877 ; see also Gardeners’ …
  • … to the letter CD had written to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 3 January [1877], which had been …
  • … in December 1876. In his letter to William of 14 January 1877 (DAR 210.7: 6), Gordon wrote …
  • … reprinted in full in The Times , 11 January 1877, p. 7 (see letter from Allen …
  • … 148–9). The letter from Charles George Gordon to William, dated 14 January 1877, is in DAR …
  • letter from Charles George Gordon (see nn. 3 and 6, below). Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 ( …

To John Murray   28 November 1877

Summary

On publishing details for various CD books.

Has no corrections for new issue of Descent [2d ed.].

Questions amount of cheque for profits.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  28 Nov 1877
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 293–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11258

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Murray’s printers, on 11 December 1877 ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). The …
  • … Cooke, 23 November 1877 , and letter to R. F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 . …
  • … See letter from John Murray, 27 November [1877] . Orchids 2d ed. …
  • … flowers was published in July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See letter from R. F. …
  • … January 1877 ( Publishers’ Circular , 1 February 1877, p. 93). See letter to R. F. Cooke, …
  • … 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See Correspondence vol. 9, letter from …
  • … worms in Earthworms (1881). See letter to R. F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 . CD was awarded …

From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer   [16 October 1877]

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CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  [16 Oct 1877]
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11268

Matches: 8 hits

  • … was publicly announced on 13 October 1877 ( letter from Elizabeth Darwin to Ida Farrer, 12 …
  • … Surrey, from 26 August to 13 October 1877 (see letter from T. H. Farrer, 26 August 1877 …
  • … to H. E. Litchfield, [25 May 1877] (DAR 219.9: 146), and letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. …
  • … see n. 2, below). In 1877, 16 October was a Tuesday. Farrer’s letter has not been found, …
  • … by CD’s second note on letter from T. H. Farrer, 23 September 1877 , and by the public …
  • … s recent illness (see letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 October [1877] and n. 2). Sara had …
  • … see letter from W. E. Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 September 1877] (DAR 219.8: 32)). …
  • 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Katherine Euphemia (Effie) Farrer was Farrer’s wife. Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood was Effie’s mother. She had been ill since May and had been staying with the Farrers at Abinger Hall since July (see letter

From T. H. Farrer   5 September 1877

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Sends two papers on Roman ruins at Cirencester, which he asks CD to return.

Worm observations.

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Sept 1877
Classmark:  DAR 164: 83
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11129

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  • … Farrer ; the Farrers were away from 27 August to 5 September 1877 ( letter from T. H. …
  • … Farrer, 23 September 1877 ). See letter from T. H. …
  • … Farrer, 26 August 1877 and n. 1, and letter to T. H. …
  • … Farrer, 27 August [1877] . CD cited the observations in this letter in Earthworms , p. …
  • … Board of Trade. See letter to T. H. Farrer, 27 August [1877] . The former Darwin family …

To G. H. Darwin   [3 June 1877]

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Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  [3 June 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10946

Matches: 4 hits

  • … from G. H. Darwin, 28 May 1877 and letter to Edward …
  • … letter from J. M. Rodwell, 1 June 1877 , and the letter to Edward Atkinson, 9 June 1877 . …
  • … Atkinson, 9 June 1877 ). The Greek passage appears in the letter from J. M. Rodwell, 1 …
  • 1877, the Sunday before 9 June was 3 June. CD refers to the honorary LLD degree (doctor of laws) from the University of Cambridge (see letter

To W. H. Flower   2 May [1877]

Summary

‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Henry Flower
Date:  2 May [1877]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10949

Matches: 1 hit

  • … letter from Otto Zacharias, 21 April 1877 , and letter to Otto Zacharias, 26 April 1877 …

To Constantin James   5 July 1877

Summary

Thanks him for his book [Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Constantin James
Date:  5 July 1877
Classmark:  James 1892, p. [V]
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11036F

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  • … Thanks him for his book [ Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter. …
  • … in Southampton on 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). James’s letter has not been …
  • 1877. M y dear S ir , On returning home yesterday, I found your book and your very courteous letter, …

To G. C. Robertson   13 July [1877]

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Thanks for offprints [of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200]. Several Germans have asked permission to translate it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Croom Robertson
Date:  13 July [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 147: 327
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11052

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  • … Robertson, 22 June [1877] , and letter from Max Schlesinger, 4 July 1877 . …
  • … Emile Alglave. See letter to G. C. Robertson, 24 June [1877] . See letter from Ernst …
  • … 9 July 1877 . Robertson himself had forwarded such a request to CD; see letter to G. C. …

From Francis Darwin   [28 October 1877?]

Summary

FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [28 Oct 1877?]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11302F

Matches: 4 hits

  • … with other plants, from Kew on 3 July 1877 ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 July [1877] …
  • … rod in London around 24 October 1877 (see letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [ …
  • … by blocking it (see letter from Leonard Darwin, 28 November 1877 and n. 2), probably in …
  • … Dalton Hooker and a paper by him (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 October 1877] and n. 4). …

From J. V. Carus   22 March 1877

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A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Mar 1877
Classmark:  DAR 161: 108
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10909

Matches: 3 hits

  • … letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March 1877 , and letter to Nature, 24 February [1877] and n. …
  • … from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 , and letter from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. …
  • … the German album (see letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1877 ). Pieter Harting had …

From R. F. Cooke   19 March 1877

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Murray’s will not announce CD’s new work [Forms of flowers] until informed to do so.

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Mar 1877
Classmark:  DAR 171: 486
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10903

Matches: 2 hits

  • … for Forms of flowers until April 1877 ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 11 April 1877 ) and it was …
  • … not been found, but see the letter from R. F. Cooke, 16 March 1877 . Cooke had sent two …

To Raphael Meldola   22 October [1877]

Summary

Thinks Weismann would welcome a translation.

Was dissatisfied with Wallace’s article.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  22 Oct [1877]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11197

Matches: 4 hits

  • … sexual selection ( A. R. Wallace 1877 ; see letter to A. R. Wallace, 31 August 1877 ). …
  • … this letter and the letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 . CD had offered to lend …
  • … in butterflies (see letter to Raphael Meldola, 19 October [1877] and n. 1). Meldola wished …
  • … 1875 and 1876; see letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 and n. 2). CD’s annotated …

From Francis Galton   22 February 1877

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Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1877
Classmark:  DAR 105: A97–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10859

Matches: 5 hits

  • … on 12 February 1877. In his letter of 11 February [1877] , CD had asked about Louisa Jane …
  • … Galton had borrowed Tschouriloff 1876 (see letter from Francis Galton, 12 January 1877 ). …
  • … See letter to Francis Galton, 11 February [1877] . William Henry Barlow invented a …
  • … before 16] February 1877 ; on the Dutch album, see the letter from A.  A.  van Bemmelen …
  • … 22 February 1877, p. 11. On the German and Austrian album, see the letter from Emil …

To L. H. Morgan   9 July [1877]

Summary

CD admires Herbert Spencer’s genius but not his "deductive style" of expression.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:  9 July [1877]
Classmark:  University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11044

Matches: 4 hits

  • … 5. Morgan had sent CD a copy of his Ancient society ( Morgan 1877 ; see letter to L. H. …
  • … Morgan, 26 June 1877 . In his letter of 26 June 1877 , Morgan had criticised Herbert …
  • … between this letter and the letter from L. H. Morgan, 26 June 1877 . See letter from L. H. …
  • … June 1877 ). Morgan had visited Down on 9 June 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to …

From John Murray   27 November [1877]

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Sends CD his share of profits on Descent and Forms of flowers.

Wants to reprint Cross and self-fertilisation because supply of copies is entirely exhausted.

Congratulates CD on his Cambridge honour [LL.D.].

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 495
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11255

Matches: 2 hits

  • … 1000 copies of Descent 2d ed. in 1877 ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 5 January 1877 ); this …
  • … DAR 242)). CD’s annotations are notes for his letter to Murray of 28 November 1877 . …

To Ernst Haeckel   16 February 1877

Summary

Thanks EH for album of photographs of German scientists.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  16 Feb 1877
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/43 [9896])
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10847

Matches: 4 hits

  • … from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 . See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1877 …
  • … CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. See letter to Emil Rade, 16 February 1877 . …
  • … See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1877 and n. 6. …
  • 1877 My dear Häckel The album has just arrived quite safe. — It is most superb. It is by far the greatest honour which I have ever received, & my satisfaction has been greatly enhanced by your most kind letter

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   5 September [1877]

Summary

Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  5 Sept [1877]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11128

Matches: 7 hits

  • … had been sent from Kew on 3 July 1877 (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 July [1877] …
  • … the growing tip in DAR 67: 7r. See also letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. …
  • … s interest in bloom, see the letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2. CD and Francis …
  • Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4) Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 Sept [1877] …
  • … this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 31 August [1877] . Thiselton-Dyer had …
  • … on bloom (see, for example, letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 July [1877] ). For …
  • … and DAR 68: 1–22. See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 31 August [1877] and n. 10. No reply …

To T. H. Farrer   27 August [1877]

Summary

CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  27 Aug [1877]
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/26)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11114

Matches: 3 hits

  • … he was away from 27 August to 5 September 1877 (see letter from T. H. Farrer, 23 September …
  • … Wedgwood was her mother. In his letter of 26 August 1877 , Farrer had mentioned that he …
  • … letter from T.  H.  Farrer, 26 August 1877 . See letter from T.  H.  Farrer, 26 August  …
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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

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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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  • …   no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the …

Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists

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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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  • … The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil …

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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  • … Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific …

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 …

Cross and self fertilisation

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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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  • … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …

Language: key letters

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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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  • … The origin of language was investigated in a wide range of disciplines in the nineteenth century. …

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 …

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 …

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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  • … You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 …

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 …

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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  • … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …

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…

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  • … The following extracts and selected letters explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual …

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 …

Darwin as mentor

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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 …

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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  • … Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a …

John Murray

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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…

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  • … Darwin's most famous book  On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin)  was …

Natural Science and Femininity

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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…

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  • … Discussion Questions | Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine …

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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  • … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Floral studies In 1877 …

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 …

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…

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  • … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
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