To J. D. Hooker 14 [August 1855]
Summary
When JDH goes to Germany, will he ask seed men if their marvellous true breeding lines are the result of selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Aug 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1741 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Gray, 8 June [1855] , and letter from Asa …
- … Gray , enclosed with Gray’s letter to CD. See letter to Asa Gray, 24 August [1855] . A. …
- … Gray , 25 April [1855]. See letter to Asa …
- … in DAR 165: 92–3. See letter from John Cattell, 13 August 1855 . CD’s notes on the plants …
- … Gray, 30 June 1855 . The letter here referred to has not been found, but Gray’s four-page …
- … on his European tour (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 August [1855] , n. 4). A note for …
- … Gray 1848 . See letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1855] , and to Asa …
- … Natural selection . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 August [1855] . Louisa Mary Henslow . …
- … 1855, pp. 43–7. For CD’s previous interest in Hooker’s work on this genus, see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [June 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1700 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Hooker, 27 May [1855] and 5 June [1855] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See letters to J. D. …
- … Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See letter to J. D. …
- … June [1855] . In his letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 May [1855], CD had commented …
- … which he completed reading on 16 June 1855 (see n. 4, below) and on letter from J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1855]
Summary
Detailed response to JDH’s critique of sea transport and continental connection theories. JDH’s claim that low plants are widely distributed fits both theories.
Species theory does not touch origin of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1696 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . Letter from Asa Gray, 22 May 1855 . …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 8 June [1855] . …
- … Mimosa sensitiva . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See CD’s annotations on letter from J. D. …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1855] , n. 3. The map showing the distribution of …
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1855]
Summary
JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.
On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1680 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 17 March 1855] …
- … the Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette on 26 May 1855 (see letter to Gardeners’ …
- … bituminous formations (Binney and Hooker 1855 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 August …
- … secular text. See letters to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 11 April [1855], and to J. D. Hooker, …
- … it as apterous ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 17 March 1855] ). Edward William …
- … 1855]). CD presented a more extensive report at the Linnean Society on 6 May 1856 (see Collected papers 1: 264–73). See letter …
- … 1855, pp. 451–2). An allusion to Hooker’s disappointment at losing the election to the chair of botany at Edinburgh University in 1845 (see Correspondence vol. 3, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [July 1855]
Summary
CD experiments: sowing seeds in fields; "breaking" seeds’ constitution with coloured light; plant hybridisation. Compiling works on hybridism.
Respect for W. B. Carpenter.
Note on "nectar secreting" to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 258–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1717 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … seeds for a hybridising experiment. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [July 1855] , n. 1. …
- … was probably the letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 21 July 1855], about nectar- …
- … from T. B. Salter, 25 [June 1855] ). See letter to J. S. Henslow, 11 July [ …
- … soaking experiments (see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 May [1855]). The note has not …
- … June 1855] , a response to CD’s complaints about his seed-soaking experiments (see letter …
- … was enclosed with the letter from H. C. Watson, 11 July [1855] . At the top, CD wrote: ‘ …
- … to me. C. Darwin’. See also letter to J. S. Henslow, 2 July [1855] , n. 3. Hooker had …
- … 1855 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 12). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL. The section on hybridism is extensively scored. Carpenter’s experiments were also discussed in a paper on plant hybridisation by Thomas Bell Salter ( Salter 1852 ), which was fresh in CD’s memory (see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1855]
Summary
CD has begun seed-salting experiments. Wants JDH to write which seeds he expects to be easily killed [in salt water].
CD’s idea that coal-plants lived in salt water like mangroves made JDH savage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1661 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … at Kew during his four-day visit to London, 20 to 24 March 1855 ( letter to C. J. F. …
- … floating in sea-water. See letters to John Davy , 25 March [1855] and 26 March [1855] . CD …
- … March 1855] , n. 1, and letter to Miles Joseph Berkeley, 7 April [1855] ). This sentence …
- … of the Hooker family. See letter from M. H. Morris to R. C. Alexander, 17 June 1855 . …
To J. D. Hooker 28 [July 1855]
Summary
Praise for JDH’s Flora Indica [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson (1855)] from CD and C. J. F. Bunbury.
CD and J. S. Henslow dining in London. JDH invited.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 143a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1731 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 July [1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 July [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1722 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … had said he would forward ( letter from Asa Gray, 30 June 1855 ) and by the reference to …
- … the Horners’ visit to Down (see letter to John Lubbock, 14 [July 1855] ). …
- … The letter from Asa Gray, 30 June 1855 , like that of 22 May 1855, was directed to William …
- … by H. C. Watson that CD had sent with the letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [July 1855] . …
To J. D. Hooker 18 [October 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Oct 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1742 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 October [1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Oct [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1763 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … R. Crowe, 27 September 1855 . See letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 18 [October 1855] . The letter has not been found. CD was in Glasgow to attend the …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 24 April [1855] , n. 2, and subsequent letters. See letter from J. …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 August [1855] , n. 4. After his appointment as assistant …
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1855]
Summary
Pea self-fertilisation: has forty-five varieties growing side by side.
Describes seed-salting experiments: e.g., immersion in tank filled with snow. Reports some successful germinations.
Made list of naturalised plants from Asa Gray’s Manual [of Botany] to calculate the proportions of the great families.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1667 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … 42–58. The list is in DAR 46.2 (ser. 2): 38–41. See letter to Asa Gray, 25 April [1855] . …
- … o 5 With oily d[itt]o. Described in letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 May [1855]. CD’s …
- … pp. 184–5). See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 11 April [1855]. Recorded in DAR 27.1 ( …
- … 7): 8. A. Gray 1848 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] . CD’s list is in DAR …
- … to M. J. Berkeley, 7 April [1855] , n. 1. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1855] , …
- … April 1855, are in DAR 27.1 (ser. 7): 17–18. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter from J. …
- … 1855. Daniel Sharpe was elected president at the anniversary meeting in February 1856. The reference is to a ‘Synopsis’ of the collection of vegetable products of Scotland prepared by Peter and Charles Lawson , the horticulturists (Lawson and Lawson 1852 ). The collection had been displayed at the Great Exhibition and then moved to the Museum of Economic Botany at Kew. See letter …
To J. D. Hooker 8 [November 1855]
Summary
Very impressed by Candolle’s book [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)]. Wants to recalculate his results.
CD’s pigeon fancy is getting on.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1774 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [July 1855]
Summary
Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.
JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1719 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … ground was cleared and dug up. See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 13 November [1855]. …
- … plants ( letter from T. B. Salter, 25 June 1855) . CD’s letter asking for seeds has …
- … Aust. Dict. Biog. ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [July 1855] , n. 3. Thomas Bell …
- … not been found, but see letter to J. S. Henslow, 27 June [1855] , in which he asked for …
- … grasses in early June. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 5 June [1855] , 15 [June 1855] , and …
- … Wollaston 1854 . See letter from T. V. Wollaston, 2 March [1855] . William Jackson Hooker …
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1855]
Summary
Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.
Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1781 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … pp. 739–40, (see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 13 November [1855], n. 1) had included …
- … See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 13 November [1855]. Hooker apparently thought it was …
- … Chronicle (see first letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 29 December 1855]). …
- … and Boreau 1840 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 [November 1855] . The editorial in the …
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1855]
Summary
Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.
T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1643 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … T. H. Huxley, 20 February [1855] . Wollaston 1854 . See letter from T. V. Wollaston, 2 …
- … K. Johnston ed. 1856 (see letter to G. R. Waterhouse, 4 March [1855] ). Arthur Henfrey …
- … Godron 1848–9 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 7 March 1855] , n. 2. A. …
- … the letter. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 7 March 1855] . T. H. Huxley 1855a . …
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1856]
Summary
Lyell urges CD to publish a sketch of species theory; CD asks JDH’s opinion on best course.
Concerned about opposition, particularly by Owen, to Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 May [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1870 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. R. Crowe, 27 September 1855 , and letter to J. R. …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 3 May [1856] ). A note inserted in the front of CD’s copy of A. de Candolle 1855 , …
- … 1855 ). Edward Sabine was treasurer of the Royal Society of London . Hooker was attempting to get Thomas Henry Huxley elected to the Athenæum (see letter …
- … 1855 and 1856a). He had previously described Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg’s researches as ‘wonderful monuments of intense and unremitting labour, but at least as wonderful illustrations of what zoological and physiological reasoning should not be’ ( T. H. Huxley 1851 , p. 436). Huxley had received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1852 for his paper on the anatomy and physiology of Medusae ( T. H. Huxley 1849 ). CD had made an appointment to see Lyell on 8 May (see letter …
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1785 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 August [1855]
Summary
Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.
When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?
Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Aug [1855] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1738 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 May [1855]
Summary
CD’s seed paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8];
CD attacks Forbes’s "Atlantis".
Considers solutions to floating problem. Decides to test Azores seeds.
Photographs and drawings of CD.
Plant movement experiments with Hedysarum gyrans.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 May [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1688 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 May [1855]. CD refers to Edward Forbes’s …
- … results were disappointing to CD. See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 November [1855]. …
- … facing p. 128. See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 May [1855], n. 2. CD’s interest …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1855] , n. 5. Hewett Cottrell Watson had botanised …
To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857]
Summary
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 20 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2033 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 5 June [1855] , and letter from J. D. …
- … on this question ( Correspondence vol. 5, letters to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] and …
- … letter from Asa Gray addressed to both William Jackson Hooker and Joseph Dalton Hooker dated 5 January 1857 ( Asa Gray , Kew Correspondence 1839/73 (137/8), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). CD refers to Hooker’s criticism of Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique raisonnée ( A. de Candolle 1855 ) …
- … 1855] ). Wollaston 1854 and 1856. As Thomas Vernon Wollaston remarked in the introduction of Insecta Maderensia , ‘the total absence of numerous genera (and even of whole families) which are looked upon as all but universal, constitutes one of the most striking features of our entomological fauna. ’ ( Wollaston 1854 , p. x). See also letter …
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Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 1 hits
- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Biogeography
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle …
Schools Gallery: Using Darwin’s letters in the classroom
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English| History| Science English Pupils in Cumbria lead the way Year 9 English pupils at Ulverston Victoria High School spent several weeks studying Darwin’s letters, including comparing sections from Darwin’s ‘Voyage of the Beagle’ to letters…
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- … English | History | Science English Pupils in Cumbria lead …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
Summary
The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. …
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
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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- … Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand …
Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Specialism | Experiment | Microscopes | Collecting | Theory Letter writing …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
Variation under domestication
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A fascination with domestication Throughout his working life, Darwin retained an interest in the history, techniques, practices, and processes of domestication. Artificial selection, as practiced by plant and…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment A fascination with domestication …
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
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< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
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- … < Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid …
Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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- … On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that he ‘Began by Lyell’s advice writing …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … The ‘historical sketch’ printed as a preface to the American edition ( Origin US ed., pp …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but …