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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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- … J. S. Henslow has sent some of Darwin’s South American plants to his friend Kew botanist J. D. …
- … 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 …
- … have been sent to William Clift. Henslow asks for dried plants (those sent were all of greatest …
- … 1 Apr [1867] Müller thanks Darwin for the “Climbing plants” offprint and for references on …
- … wealth and social privilege. He also sought knowledge about plants and animals from persons of very …
- … remarks about Scott. Darwin notes he has finished Climbing plants and is resuming work on …
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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- … his work on domestic animals by conducting experiments on plants. Expanding projects set up during …
- … of Darwin’s conclusions about the variation of animals and plants under domestication were written …
- … manuscript when compiling The variation of animals and plants under domestication (1868) and …
- … source for many of Darwin’s views on domestic animals and plants and this, since it was composed so …
- … how, and in what way variations appeared in animals and plants. Making the fullest possible use of …
- … them on different aspects of the question. Did naturalised plants, he asked Asa Gray, vary in the …
- … 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 …
- … answer. Nor could the botanists that Darwin asked about plants whose flowers seemed consistently to …
- … crossing. The possibility of the cross-fertilisation of plants that grew under water was an equally …
- … show that he was involved with many different experiments on plants through the summers of 1856 and …
- … a series of researches designed to explain how animals and plants might have been transported to …
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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- … matters of the global geographical distributions of plants. The men exchange information, criticism, …
- … seems to hold good amongst animals, I try to test it in Plants. I have the greatest curiosity about …
- … to append from memory the other habitats or ranges of these plants… appending ‘Indig.’ for such as …
- … hurrah! hurrah! …How dreadfully difficult it is to name plants… I must confess that Fortune favours …
- … time to write on the geographical distribution of the US plants; and if my letter caused you to do …
- … to contend that Coniferæ are the highest style of plants. DARWIN: 27 But, as 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 …
- … HORACE: Did people formerly really believe that animals and plants never changed? DARWIN: …
- … due to man’s agency. HORACE: But do not wild plants vary? DARWIN: I answered …
- … a little better, my book ‘On the Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication’. I finish … …
- … at what I am fittest for: study of groups of North American plants one by one. Slow work, but …
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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- … part of what was to become The variation of animals and plants under domestication ( Variation …
- … and organising information on variation in domesticated plants and animals in order to write the …
- … discussions of other domesticated animals, and of cultivated plants. The second volume contained …
- … two volumes I much fear) of “Domestic Animals & Cult. Plants” to Printers’ ( letter to J. D. …
- … friends and correspondents. Hooker’s research on alpine floras, Henry Walter Bates’s article on …
- … 1861 ). Darwin wished to establish whether dioecious plants had hermaphrodite ancestors, by …
- … on competing theories of the geographical distribution of plants. Darwin had consistently argued …
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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- … mems. sur les veget. et anim: on sleep & movements of plants £ 1 ..s 4. [Dutrochet 1837] …
- … with profound care abortive organs produced in domesticated plants what function has ceased to be …
- … Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on Geog. distrib: of Brit: plants [H. C. Watson 1835] read …
- … maps by Copenhagen Botanists [?Schouw 1823] of range of plants. 13 Books quoted by Herbert …
- … Britann: [Sweet 1826]— has remarks on acclimatizing of plants. Herbert [Herbert 1837] p. 348 …
- … in a metaphys. point of view Henslow has list of plants of Mauritius with locality in wh. …
- … in Syria [Volney 1787].—vol I. p. 71. account of Europæan plants transplanted Crawford Eastern …
- … 1784] in Geograph. Soc. M r Winch catalogue of plants of Northumberland, Cumberland & …
- … 27) as good— Decandoelle has chapter on Sensitive Plants in his Physiology [A. P. de Candolle …
- … Soulange Bodin has somewhere written on exact adaptation of plants to soil [?Soulange-Bodin 1827]. …
- … according to Hooker has written on topography of N. American plants. [?Michaux 1803].— M r …
- … Archif fur Naturgeschicte. 33 1836. Meyen on distrib of plants in Himallaya & high Peru …
- … Appendix [Brown 1818] excellent table of Canary island Plants Home’s Hist. of Man [Home1774] …
- … [Glöger 1833].— Dec r . 1 Meyens Geography of Plants [Meyen 1846]. —— 12 th …
- … 1852]. 86 p.p. 364. 8 vo (Much on Distribution of Plants & means of) D’orbigny …
- … important 92 The Geographical Distrib. of Plants & Animals by C. Pickering Chapman …
- … Read Hornschuck Essay on the Sporting of Plants. in the ‘Flora’ or separate [Hornschuch 1848] …
- … *128: 159] Bentham has published list of Pyrenes plants [Bentham 1826]. I daresay he w d …
- … (probably worth reading) Read O. Heer on fossil Plants of Tertiary Carboniferous strata, …
- … 15 H C. Watson Remarks on Geograph distrib. of British Plants 1835 [H. C. Watson 1835] [DAR …
- … on Madeira fossils [Heer 1855] —— 19 Von Tschudi Alpine life [Tschudi 1856] 30. Brehm …
- … in nature, especially in the life and development of plants. Translated by Arthur Henfrey. In …
- … geographical, on Professor Christian Smith’s collection of plants from the vicinity of the river …
- … *119: 1v.; 119: 2a, 20a ——. 1824. A list of plants, collected in Melville Island. Appendix …
- … 16a ——. 1821. Elements of the philosophy of plants . Edinburgh. *119: 1v. ——. …
- … or, an analytical description of the organs of plants. Translated by Boughton Kingdon. 2 …
- … of vegetation . London, 1791. Part II: The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes . …
- … William Henry. 1838. The genera of South African plants, arranged according to the natural …
- … 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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- … arduous undertaking in this respect, it is certain that plants and animals are subject from their …
- … apt to overlook from familiarity—that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space …
- … order of succession of the different types of animals and plants characteristic of the different …
- … parallelism between the order of succession of animals and plants in geological times, and the …
- … supports it. That the existing kinds of animals and plants, or many of them, may be derived …
- … It is fair to conclude, from the observation of plants and animals in a wild as well as domesticated …
- … assumption that man has chosen for domestication animals and plants having an extraordinary inherent …
- … domestication? I cannot doubt that if other animals and plants, equal in number to our domesticated …
- … remark of naturalists that the varieties of domesticated plants or animals often differ more widely …
- … of the various domestic animals and the cultivators of plants, with whom I have ever conversed, or …
- … strengthens those variations which he prizes when he plants the seed of a favorite fruit, preserves …
- … Hooker doubts if there is a true reversion in the case of plants. Mr. Darwin’s observations rather …
- … may easily be shown. In Nature, even with hermaphrodite plants, there is a vast amount of cross …
- … referred to physical conditions (like the depauperation of plants in a sterile soil, or their …
- … the most variable. In a flora so small as the British, 182 plants, generally reckoned as varieties, …
- … species of animals are more definitely marked than those of plants; this may arise from our somewhat …
- … assumes, as we have seen: i. Some variability of animals and plants in nature; 2. The absence of any …
- … of the actual association and geographical distribution of plants and animals. In this he must be …
- … and so on, then in twenty years there would be a million plants. The elephant is reckoned to be the …
- … they would have been quite incredible. So it is with plants: cases could be given of introduced …
- … no one supposes that the fertility of these animals or plants has been suddenly and temporarily …
- … in their new homes.’—(pp. 64, 65.) ‘All plants and animals are tending to increase at …
- … species, we may clearly see in the prodigious number of plants in our gardens which can perfectly …
- … become naturalized, for they cannot compete with our native plants, nor resist destruction by our …
- … 72, 73.) ‘When we look at the plants and bushes clothing an entangled bank, we arc …
- … on the trees, or their seeds and seedlings, or on the other plants which first clothed the ground …
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