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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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  • … She also mentions her attempts to artificially fertilise plants in her garden. Letter …
  • … work on butterflies and offers to observe birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. …
  • … sends Darwin observations made by her and her father of plants and insects. Men: …
  • … Darwin thanks Hooker for posting to him a number of plants to aid his work on Climbing Plants
  • … her work on fish and insects, undertaken on the shores of mountain lakes in Pennsylvania. …
  • … she has made during a half-mile stroll. The best plants, she finds, are found “in exposed places”. …
  • … describes her work on insects, undertaken on the shores of mountain lakes in Pennsylvania. …
  • … She also mentions her attempts to artificially fertilise plants in her garden. Letter …
  • … some of the plant experiments described in Insectivorous Plants. Sophia describes her own …
  • … botanist Friedrich Hildebrand details his experiments with plants, probably undertaken in his lab at …
  • … culminated in the publication of  The Movement  of Plants   in 1880 and his “assistance” …
  • … of assistance with the examination of a large collection of plants. Hooker will gladly accept Darwin …
  • … useful addition” to his discussion of self-impotent plants in   Variation . Darwin asks …
  • … work on butterflies and offers to observe birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. …
  • … culminated in the publication of  The Movement  of Plants   in 1880 and his “assistance” …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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  • … Kurt Polycarp Joachim.  Elements of the philosophy   of plants . Edinburgh, 1821. (DAR 30.2: …
  • … Library–CUL. Jones, Thomas.  A companion to the mountain barometer.  2d ed. London, n.d. …
  • … Playfair, John. Account of the structure of the table mountain, and other parts of the Peninsula of …

4.22 Gegeef et al., 'Our National Church', 2

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< Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was commissioned by the freethinker, radical and secularist George Jacob Holyoake. It was published by John Heywood of Manchester and London…

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  • … Conway, the American freethinker and opponent of slavery, ‘plants his tent to catch the latest …
  • … version of the print was published, and is now raised to the mountain top, the highest point in the …

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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  • … & collecting facts on variation of domestic animals & plants & on the question of what …
  • … research into contemporary theories of volcanic activity, mountain formation, and the elevation of …
  • … unexplored by Darwin, even though he had collected plants extensively. Henslow, who had undertaken …
  • … and Hitcham and apparently relieved to handover Darwin’s plants to Hooker, who had just returned …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • … South American geology, barnacle morphology, insectivorous plants, and earthworms, subjects that had …
  • … March 1869 ). This research contributed to  Insectivorous plants , published in 1875. …
  • … I had longed once again to set foot on summit of a mountain In his reply to Dohrn, Darwin …
  • … a hill, & I had longed once again to set foot on summit of a mountain.—’ ( letter to T. H. …

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 …
  • … northward; hence, in going northward, or in ascending a mountain, we far oftener meet with stunted …
  • … than we do in proceeding southward or in descending a mountain. When we reach the arctic regions, or …
  • … 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 …

Interview with Emily Ballou

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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…

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  • … are pretty much all botanical photographs and collections of plants rather than? You know, the …
  • … just the beginning of light. William dove off the mountain cascading into blue vapour, …

Rewriting Origin - the later editions

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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions.  Many of his changes were made in…

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  • … he argued that, during glacial periods, temperate plants could have migrated through the tropical …
  • … Origin was written, had questioned whether tropical plants really would have survived in ‘ so …
  • … theory of ice ages to explain the survival of tropical plants.  Croll postulated that ice ages …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … her to Hout Bay (his estate lying on the other side of the mountain at the foot of which that bay is …
  • … he took with him from Padang – a collection of roots – plants – and seeds for commencing a …
  • … above the sea during these many ages whilst the submarine mountain basement has been sinking inwards …
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