From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
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- … From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880 …
- … DAR 104: 142–5 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 22 Nov 1880 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Emma Darwin’s sister, had died on 8 November 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
- … Her death was reported in The Times , 9 November 1880, p. 1. …
- … Gray , in Italy in December (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 September 1880 and n. 2). J. …
- … D. Hooker and Gray 1880 was published in the Bulletin of the United States Geological and …
- … Hayden . CD had received a copy of James Paget ’s lecture ( Paget 1880 ; see letter to …
- … James Paget, 14 November 1880 ). In Movement in plants , p. 105 n. , CD had referred to …
- … Co. Hooker, Joseph Dalton and Gray, Asa. 1880. The vegetation of the Rocky Mountain region …
- … Geographical Survey of the Territories 6 (1880): 1–77. Movement in plants : The power of …
- … by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Nobbe, Friedrich. 1876. Handbuch der …
- … Wiegandt, Hempel and Baren. Paget, James. 1880. An address on elemental pathology. British …
- … see the Chemical Gazette , 17 December 1880, p. 302. William Turner Thiselton-Dyer and …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 23 November 1880] ). Alfred Russel Wallace ’s new book, Island …
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1880
Summary
Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 148–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12887 |
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- … From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1880 …
- … DAR 104: 148–9 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 4 Dec 1880 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Gray had been in Paris from around October 1880; they travelled through Italy with Hooker …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 December 1880 and n. 2. George Dickie was proposed for …
- … of the coniferæ’, Nature , 1 July 1880, pp. 199–202, John Starkie Gardner hypothesised …
- … Haughton published in Nature , 7 October 1880, pp. 532–3, referred to Gardner’s article …
- … to the journal continued the discussion on climate (see Nature , 4 November 1880, pp. …
- … 8–9; 18 November 1880, pp. …
- … 53–4; 2 December 1880, pp. 98–9). Further letters on the topic by Gardner, Haughton, and …
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1880
Summary
Quality of Frank’s work merits F.R.S., but quantity could defer speedy election. Will advise best strategy.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 146–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12873 |
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- … From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1880 …
- … DAR 104: 146–7 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 29 Nov 1880 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … member of the council of the Royal Society on 30 November 1880 ( Proceedings of the Royal …
- … Society of London 31 (1880–1): 101). …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 November [1880] ; CD wanted to propose Francis Darwin for …
- … Hooker was on the council of the Royal Society until 30 November 1880; see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 28 November [1880] and n. 4. Hooker proposed George Dickie for fellowship of …
From J. D. Hooker 24 September 1880
Summary
Can Alphonse de Candolle see CD?
Asa Gray at Kew; will meet JDH in Italy in December.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 140–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12724 |
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- … From J. D. Hooker 24 September 1880 …
- … DAR 104: 140–1 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 24 Sept 1880 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Candolle visited Down on Monday 27 September 1880 (see letter from Asa Gray, 30 September …
- … wife, Jane Loring Gray , spent the autumn of 1880 in Spain and France, winter at the Royal …
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1880
Summary
Huxley has persuaded JDH that the Wallace memorial may not be hopeless; JDH still has misgivings about Wallace’s spiritualism but will follow CD’s and Huxley’s decision.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 349) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12860 |
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- … From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1880 …
- … Archives (Huxley 5: 349) Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated 26 Nov 1880 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … J. D. Hooker to T. H. Huxley, 26 November 1880 ; Imperial College of Science, Technology …
- … see letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 November 1880 . For Hooker’s and CD’s previous opinions …
From J. D. Hooker [23–7 May 1863]
Summary
Encloses his notions [missing] on John Scott’s offer; some points in explanation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23–7 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 141–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4134 |
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- … Taylor & Francis. Markham, Clements Robert. 1880. Peruvian bark. A popular account of the …
- … Nilgiri Hills in southern India in January 1861 ( Markham 1880 , pp. iii and 316). The …
- … 1862 and 1864 is discussed in Markham 1880 , pp. 389–90. See also n. 5, below. John …
- … arrived there in June 1862 ( Markham 1880 , pp. 389–90; Report on Cinchona cultivation in …
From J. D. Hooker 4 October 1878
Summary
Frank asked to summarise work with CD for use in JDH’s Royal Society address.
Work with A. Gray shows Colorado plants closer to Altai than to E. or W. America.
Work with J. Ball shows Moroccan plants very distinct from nearby Canaries.
JDH on Royal Commission to Paris Exhibition.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 115–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11714 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1864
Summary
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 227–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4537 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1879
Summary
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 134–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12336 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 February 1864]
Summary
Sends a Corydalis.
Hermann Crüger’s paper [see 4394] splendid, but he has made a mess of propagating Cinchona in Trinidad.
JDH’s opinion of Germans.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Feb 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4413 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1878
Summary
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 118–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11718 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 June 1881
Summary
Has struggled for months with complexity of structure and distribution of palms for Genera plantarum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 150–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13201 |
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- … by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Page, William, ed. 1908. The Victoria …
From J. D. Hooker 14 February 1878
Summary
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11356 |
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- … by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der …
From J. D. Hooker 14 October 1875
Summary
JDH shares CD’s annoyance with R. L. Tait.
Has identified awned carpels for CD.
Sports of Paritium.
Suggests extending Francis’ experiments with glycerine on twisted seeds, to Mimosa.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 38–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10197 |
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- … by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner. 1910. The …
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1873
Summary
Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.
Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 169–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9089 |
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- … in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1876
Summary
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10658 |
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- … a second edition was not published until 1880. The second edition of The student’s flora …
From J. D. Hooker 14 January 1875
Summary
Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 6–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9815 |
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- … Society; Victorian minds in crisis, 1869–1880. New York: Columbia University Press. …
From J. D. Hooker 29 December 1874
Summary
Explains that his letter had to do with how he should act publicly to Mivart if he retracted. He would not forgive him. If he does not retract, it would no longer be possible to keep him Secretary of the Linnean Society.
Drosophyllum will be sent when weather permits.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 243–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9788 |
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- … of the Linnean Society from 1874 until 1880 ( ODNB ). George James Allman was president of …
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1873
Summary
Sends plant specimens.
He and Thiselton-Dyer, working on with Nepenthes, have independently found the spiral vessels going to the gland. CD’s view that the glands are secretory organs is suggestive. When Nepenthes is as much done as CD wants,
he will turn to Cephalotus and Sarracenia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 176–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9116 |
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- … in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880 . Darwin became fully devoted to …
- … of much value to me’ ( letter to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). Darwin had employed a genealogist …
- … & even the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 ). Darwin’s sons George and …
- … of [William Alvey Darwin],’ George wrote on 28 May 1880 , ‘I … said you were anxious not to …
- … letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin, 22 July 1880 ). Sales of Erasmus …
- … new was published). Butler wrote to Darwin on 2 January 1880 for an explanation: ‘Among the …
- … I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). At the top of Butler’s letter, Emma …
- … an article upon’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [28 January 1880] ). Butler had once been an …
- … the public’ ( letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 ). He stated his case in the Athen …
- … Henrietta ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] ). ‘The world will only know … that you …
- … she warned ( letter from H. E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] ). ‘He is a virulent Salamander of a …
- … husband Richard ( letter from R. B. Litchfield, 1 February 1880 ). Even the great controversialist …
- … a horrid disease’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 February 1880 ). All went quiet until …
- … to an elephant’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 9 December 1880 ). Again, Darwin felt compelled to …
- … behave so differently.’ ( Letter to Asa Gray, 17 February 1880 .) But Gray had based his …
- … agreed with Darwin’s ( letter from Asa Gray, 4 April 1880 ). Having finished the manuscript …
- … or publisher?’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). ‘I must take the risk & loss on my …
- … lose some for science’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 21 July 1880 ). The worries were ill founded, …
- … scale’, Darwin wrote to Alphonse de Candolle on 28 May 1880 . Readers trained in zoology realised …
- … ( letter from F. M. Balfour, [22 November 1880] ). George Romanes, who had worked on the nerves of …
- … would have been amply gratified”‘ ( 21 November [1880] ). ‘I had quite forgotten my old ambition …
- … to see anybody’ ( letter to S. H. Haliburton, 13 December 1880 ). Instinct and worms …
- … has amused me’ ( letter to W. C. McIntosh, 18 June 1880 ). Members of the family were enlisted to …
- … ( letter from Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin, [18 September 1880] ). Darwin’s Wedgwood nieces, Sophy …
- … frightens them’ ( letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 8 October [1880] ). The role of instinctive …
- … its return’ ( letter from J.-H. Fabre, 18 February 1880 ). Darwin shared the letter with Romanes, …
- … than the baby!’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 17 December 1880 , and letter to G. J. Romanes, 20 …
- … greatly obliged’ ( letter from W. Z. Seddon, 2 February 1880) . Darwin sympathised with the pupil; …
- … has accepted’ ( letter to W. Z. Seddon, 4 February 1880 ). On 16 February , ‘an ardent student’ …
- … to public-school pupils ( letter to Francis Galton, 7 April 1880 , and letter from Francis …
Volume 28 (1880) now published
Summary
1880 opened and closed with an irksome controversy with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of Movement in…
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- … 1880 opened and closed with an irksome controversy with Samuel Butler, prompted …
- … available. Read more about Darwin's life in 1880 in our Life in letters …
- … Scientific Society after meeting Darwin at Down in July 1880. Forty-three members of the society …
- … of his most prized curiosities. They, and others, recognised 1880 as an important year, the year …
- … & nothing else in this world In the autumn of 1880, after finishing work on the …
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 work …
- … and illustrated Horace’s machine in a paper (F. Darwin 1880, pp. 449–55). Diagram …
- … suggested by Darwin’s son William in February 1880, probably to replace Frank’s ‘Transversal …
- … to translate the paper into German, and it appeared in 1880 (F. Darwin 1880b). In the same letter, …
- … ’. Luckily, De Vries published two papers in 1879 and 1880 that Darwin was later able to refer to in …
- … weight of the seed ( letter from Asa Gray, 3 February 1880 ). The matter was finally settled by an …
- … would be killed by frost ( letter from Asa Gray, 4 April 1880 ). Darwin agreed, ‘ It seems almost …
- … of Plants’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 23 April [1880] ). Cooke replied, ‘ We are as much puzzled as …
- … ’. The manuscript was sent off towards the end of May 1880 and Darwin then spent a fortnight at his …
- … Alphonse de Candolle’s Phytographie (A. de Candolle 1880). In his letter of thanks for the book, …
- … all plants from their earliest youth ’. By July 1880, Darwin was correcting the first sets …
- … copies they should print ( letter to John Murray, 10 July 1880 ). Moreover, since he worried about …
- … on the usual terms ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 15 July 1880 ). This was also preferable to Darwin, …
- … or raising the price ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). Darwin demurred, however, stating, …
- … page numbers ( letter to Francis Darwin, 5 August [1880] ). Darwin was also very taken by Balfour …
- … genesis of the nervous system ’. By mid-September 1880, Darwin was actively engaged with the …
- … to publish it ( letter from J. V. Carus, 18 September 1880 ). The American publisher, D. Appleton …
- … Murray ( letter from D. Appleton & Co., 17 September 1880 ). Darwin was fortunate in having as …
- … and stamens ( letter from Édouard Heckel, 23 September 1880 ). Darwin wanted electrotypes …
- … the cost of these ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 16 October 1880 ). Cooke replied that although the …
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,…
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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- … 1866] ; 8 June [1867-72?] ) and Sophy ( 8 October [1880] ). The …
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…
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.…
Casting about: Darwin on worms
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Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…
1.15 Albert Goodwin, watercolour
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< Back to Introduction In 1880 the watercolourist Albert Goodwin was apparently invited to Down to produce that rare thing – a portrait of Darwin with members of his family. As Henrietta Litchfield, Darwin’s daughter, explained when she reproduced it…
2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal
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< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…
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- … It was decided at the Union’s annual meeting in July 1880 to award an annual ‘Darwin Prize’ for the …
- … death in 1882, suggested that the initiation of the medal in 1880 had also been intended as a …
- … founded by the Midland Union of Natural History Societies 1880’. In the centre the name of the …
- … date of creation designed and first produced in 1880 computer-readable date 1880-01-01 …
- … and bibliography letter to E. W. Badger, [19 July 1880], DCP-LETT-12660. ‘Encouragement of …
- … and Field Clubs of the Midland Counties , 3:32 (August 1880), preface and pp. 181–2. Journal of …
Women’s scientific participation
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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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- … Letter 12389 - Johnson, M. to Darwin, [January 1880] Mary Johnson tells Darwin about her …
- … 12745 - Darwin to Wedg wood, K. E. S., [8 October 1880] Darwin asks his niece, …
- … 12760 - Wedgw ood, K. E. S. to Darwin, [15 October 1880] Darwin’s niece, Katherine …
- … publication of The Movement of Plants in 1880 and his “assistance” is proudly …
- … publication of The Movement of Plants in 1880 and his “assistance” is proudly …
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … 14 October [1862] To Joseph Prestwich, 3 January 1880 …
Earthworms
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As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
What is an experiment?
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Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
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- … when at work’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 25 December [1880] ). Horace Darwin’s …
Power of movement in plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Family experiments Darwin was an active and engaged father during his children's youth, involving them in his experiments and even occasionally using them as observational subjects. When his children…
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- … on experiments for The Power of Movement in Plants (1880). The correspondence between Darwin …
- … to his theory of evolution by natural selection. This 1880 book sought to illustrate that evolution …
- … Darwin, C.R. The power of movement in plants. 1880. London: John Murray. Chapter nine: …
- … publication of The Power of Movement in Plants in 1880. After reading Chapter Nine of …
Moral Nature
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In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
4.40 'Phrenological Magazine'
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< Back to Introduction Among the stranger uses of Rejlander’s photograph of Darwin (the very popular profile view) was as an illustration in Lorenzo Niles Fowler’s Phrenological Magazine of 1880; it accompanied an article titled ‘Charles Darwin – A…
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Florence Caroline Dixie
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On October 29th 1880, Lady Florence Dixie wrote a letter to Charles Darwin from her home in the Scottish Borders; “Whilst reading the other day your very interesting account of A Naturalist’s Voyage round the world,” she said, “I came across a passage…of…
