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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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- … another in a variety of plants. With additional study of Cypripedium , Acropera , and the bee …
- … pollinia, movements that confirmed Gray’s theory that Cypripedium was pollinated by insects …
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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- … Cyanophyllum— Bolbophyllum 15 Cypripedium barbatum moveable Labellum. …
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