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Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … 15 April [1867] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was the sweet pea ( Lathyrus odoratus ), and in October …
- … to suspect that the insects which could transfer pollen in sweet peas simply did not exist in …
- … informed Darwin that gardeners in Florence kept varieties of sweet peas separated to avoid crossing …
- … Delpino, 25 June [1873] ). Darwin’s suspicion that sweet peas were cross fertilised in their native …
A tale of two bees
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Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…
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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- … [Lasch 1829] has given list of spont. Hybrids. where? Sweet Hortus Britann: [Sweet 1826]— has …
- … [ Gardener's Magazine of Botany ]; many papers on Peas &c &c [DAR *119: …
- … Prod. Res. p. 170 [Royle 1840] (read) 37 Sweet has written Book on family of Geranium …
- … (read) Sweets Geraniaceæ on species & vars. [Sweet 1820–30] Hort. Soc.? New York …
- … . [Edited by James Rennie with the assistance of Robert Sweet and William Herbert.] London. *119: …
- … Cyclopædia.) London. [Darwin Library.] 119: 6a Sweet, Robert. 1820–30. Geraniaceæ; the …
- … . London. *119: 17v. ——. 1826. Sweet’s Hortus Britannicus; or, a catalogue of …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
