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Scientific Networks

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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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  • … is collecting facts on variation and questions Gray on the alpine flora of the USA. He sends a list …
  • … ]. He discusses the distribution and relationships of alpine flora in the USA. Letter …

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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  • … intended to include in his book was the apparent tendency of alpine plants to be more hairy than …
  • … Darwin was mistaken: ‘You have shaved the hair off the alpine plants pretty effectually’ complained …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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  • … test it in Plants. I have the greatest curiosity about the alpine Flora of the United States and I …
  • … Viz that the line of connection of the strictly Alpine plants is through Greenland. Gray is …
  • … DARWIN:  37   When I said that your remarks on your alpine plants ‘riled’ me; I did not mean …

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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  • … durch Insekten: und ihre Anpassungen an dieselben (Alpine flowers, their fertilisation through …

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of  Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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  • … friends and correspondents. Hooker’s research on alpine floras, Henry Walter Bates’s article on …

Controversy

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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…

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  • … of the Hawaiian Islands. He says the presence of European alpine species in Hawaiian volcanoes is a …

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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  • … on Madeira fossils [Heer 1855] —— 19 Von Tschudi Alpine life [Tschudi 1856] 30. Brehm …
  • … Chloris andina, essai d’une   flore de la région alpine des Cordillères de l’Amérique du   Sud …

Review: The Origin of Species

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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…

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  • … in a sterile soil, or their dwarfing as they approach an Alpine summit, the thicker fur of an animal …
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