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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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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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- … necessary to ask the botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and private individuals with …
- … ‘some few orchids’ from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, dreading the ‘awful sums’ that he imagined …
- … however, I shall avoid[,] of course I must not have from Kew’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 January …
- … 15 February [1863] ). On 20 February, the plants from Kew had arrived. Darwin was delighted, …
- … of 5 March [1863] , he announced that the plants from Kew were ‘ 165 in number!!!’, continuing …
- … Hugh Gower, superintendent of the propagating department at Kew, had helped select the plants for …
- … subsequent correspondence as having been sent to Darwin from Kew. Darwin said in the letter to …
- … taken from Lindley 1853, Index Kewensis , the Gray Herbarium index , and Index Londinensis …
2.1 Thomas Woolner bust
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< Back to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him that reflected an important transition in his status in the later 1860s. In the 1840s–1850s Darwin had been esteemed within scientific circles as one among…
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … brother-naturalist’, sent to Daniel Oliver, keeper of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, …
- … about the possibility of Scott’s conducting experiments at Kew on Darwin’s behalf for one or two …
- … a distinctive professional and social hierarchy in place at Kew, and suggest Hooker’s own …
- … for help in finding a suitable position for Scott, either at Kew or overseas. Fearing that his …
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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- … on submerged flowers. He describes practices at the herbarium at Bonn and compares their plant …
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…
