To W. E. Darwin 3 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A8, A10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4480 |
Matches: 19 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin 3 May [1864] …
- … DAR 97: A8, A10 Charles Robert Darwin unstated 3 May [1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … memorandum from W. E. Darwin, [30 April 1864]). CD presumably refers to the Pulmonaria …
- … see n. 2, above). William responded to his question in his letters of 12 May [1864] and …
- … 18 May [1864]. According to Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
- … DAR 242), CD was ‘uncomf[ortable]’ on 2 and 3 May 1864. …
- … that William examined Pulmonaria angustifolia in 1863 and 1864, and measured the pollen of …
- … the red equal-styled cowslip in 1864 and 1865; both activities are mentioned in this …
- … letter (see letters and memorandum from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864], 18 …
- … April 1864, and [ …
- … 30 April 1864], and nn. 2, 3, and 5, below). William used a camera lucida to make many of …
- … dated 26 April, 6 May, and 14 May 1864, he made several observations of anther size in the …
- … and short-styled forms, noting on 6 May 1864 that the anthers in the P. angustifolia bud …
- … Pulmonaria anthers, see the memorandum and the letter from W. E. Darwin, 6 May 1864 and …
- … 12 May [1864]; for his sketches of anthers in the bud, see the letters from W. …
- … E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and …
- … 24 May 1864 . See also letter to W. …
- … E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and n. 5. See memorandum …
- … from W. E. Darwin, [30 April 1864] and n. 2. CD wrote that the pollen of the equal- …
From W. E. Darwin 18 May [1864]
Summary
Sends Pulmonaria anthers, with measurements of styles and pollen counts.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A83–6, A94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4500 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 18 May [1864] …
- … DAR 110: A83–6, A94 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 18 May [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … example, letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] and n. 2). Lyndhurst is a village in …
- … the letter from W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864] . William had already sketched anthers from …
- … of Pulmonaria angustifolia (see memorandum and letter from W. E. Darwin, 6 May 1864 and …
- … 12 May [1864]). CD had then asked William to observe unopened anthers that were still in …
- … bud (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and n. 6). For the sketches of marked …
- … p. 107). See letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] and n. 8. See letter from Emma …
- … Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] and n. 2. William often collected plants for CD …
- … and letter from W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] and n. 2). William had already observed …
- … longer, than those of short-styled (see letters from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [ 1864] and …
- … 18 April 1864 and n. 7, and letter to W. …
- … E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and nn. 5 and 6). CD had asked for this comparison …
- … short-styled and long-styled flowers in his letters to William of 14 May [1864] and [14– …
- … 17 May 1864]. CD recorded these numbers in his abstract of William’s letters on Pulmonaria …
From W. E. Darwin 24 May 1864
Summary
Encloses drawings of Menyanthes and Pulmonaria anthers.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A89–93, B48–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4508 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 24 May 1864 …
- … May 24 th 1864’ pencil …
- … 110: A89–93, B48–50 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 24 May 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] . William refers to the first set of short- …
- … Pulmonaria angustifolia in his letter of 14 May [1864] . William had already sent drawings …
- … of anthers from buds with his letter of 18 May [1864] ; see also letter from W. …
- … 24’ double underl pencil ; ‘64’ del pencil ; ‘1864’ added above ‘64’, pencil ; ‘Menyanth’ …
- … 8.2] crossed pencil Top of second page : ‘May 24 th 1864’ pencil Enclosure 1 : top …
- … of enclosure : ‘May 24 th 1864’ pencil ; above right-hand column : ‘Menyanthes’ …
- … pencil Top of enclosure 2 : ‘May 24 1864’ pencil Bottom of enclosure …
- … 3 : ‘May 24 th 1864’ pencil Bottom of enclosure …
- … 4 : ‘May 24 th 1864’ pencil Enclosure 5 : ‘ …
- … May 24 th 1864’ pencil Enclosure 6 : ‘ …
- … E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] and nn. 2 and 3. For William’s enclosed drawings of P. …
From W. E. Darwin 18 June [1864]
Summary
Doesn't think will be able to find Buckthorn. Sends reference from Revue de Deux Mondes. Is settled at the Bank.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4538F |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 18 June [1864] …
- … letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] and n. 8). …
- … Family Papers (DAR 275: 19) William Erasmus Darwin 18 June [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Press. 1985–. Siebold, Karl Theodor Ernst von. 1864. Ueber Zwitterbienen. Zeitschrift für …
- … and W. E. Darwin to Thomas Salt, 12 April 1864 ). Corydalis claviculata , a synonym of …
- … 1864b ); Wallace had sent CD a copy in May 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from …
- … A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and n. 5). …
- … of his father some time before 19 May 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, frontispiece and …
- … of ‘natural selection’. [Read 1 March 1864. ] Anthropological Review 2: clviii–clxx. …
- … H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May 1864] ). Pyrus torminalis is a synonym of Torminalis …
- … tree. Revue des deux mondes , 1 March 1864, pp. 87–8, described recent observations by …
- … a similar report in Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 14 (1864): 158–9 was …
- … taken from Siebold 1864 . William had been lodging at 1 Carlton Terrace, Southampton (see …
To W. E. Darwin 14 May [1864]
Summary
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4495 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin 14 May [1864] …
- … DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 May [1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … the letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] . CD published a discussion of Pulmonaria …
- … on pp. 105, 106, and 107 (see letters from W. E. Darwin, 18 April 1864 and n. …
- … 3, and 12 May [1864] and nn. 3 and 4). …
- … CD is referring to William’s letter of 12 May [1864] and to his earlier letter of 4 May [ …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
- … also letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] and n. 6, and Forms of flowers , p. 106. …
- … forms (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] , n. 2, and ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
- … see also letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 4, n. 5, above, and Forms of …
- … from opened flowers, evidently measured wet, with his letters of 14 April [1864] and …
- … 18 April 1864. CD compared …
- … the unopened (indehiscent) anthers on 6 May 1864 (see letter to W. …
- … E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] , n. 2). In Forms of flowers , p. 106, CD noted the smaller …
- … different forms of Pulmonaria angustifolia in 1864 and 1865; for CD’s experimental notes …
- … thyme in the garden at Down on 5 May and 28 May 1864 (DAR 109: A46 v. ). According to Emma …
- … Wedgwood visited Down from 14 to 17 May 1864. Francis Darwin . CD had observed the two …
- … of Echium vulgare for CD in June and July 1864 from Down and another site (see also Forms …
To W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864]
Summary
Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [19 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5333 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864] …
- … DAR 210.6: 186 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [19 May 1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … relationship between this letter and the letters from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and [ …
- … 20 May 1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). See Correspondence vol. …
- … 12, letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] . William had included sketches of the …
- … see also letter from W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] and n. 3. For CD’s annotations, see …
- … H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May 1864] and n. 2. Most of CD’s work on Rhamnus …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter from H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May 1864] ). …
- … 12, letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] . For CD’s query regarding Menyanthes ( …
- … Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). For CD’s interest …
From W. E. Darwin 12 May [1864]
Summary
Observations on style length of 150 flowers of Pulmonaria [angustifolia]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 105.]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A66–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4492 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 12 May [1864] …
- … DAR 110: A66–7 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 12 May [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 95 ’ 55 pencil — 150 Cover, recto : ‘May 13 th 1864’ pencil ; ‘4’ red crayon, circled …
- … red crayon Cover, verso : ‘May 13 1864 | Pulmonaria | (number of Plants of both forms) | …
- … heterostyly (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] and nn. 1 and 2; see also Forms of …
- … E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] . The diagram is reproduced at 45 per cent of its original size. …
- … in DAR 110: A53 (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 10). CD …
- … from Friedrich Hildebrand of 21 June 1864 , in which Hildebrand mentioned his experiments …
- … Pulmonaria angustifolia on the Isle of Wight in 1863 and 1864 (see letter from W. …
- … E. Darwin, 18 April 1864 and nn. 2 and 3). CD recorded William’s observations of …
- … each form in his memorandum of 6 May 1864. The long-styled anther that William labelled BV …
- … anther size, see the letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] and n. 2. See letter to W. …
- … E. Darwin, [after 14 April – 5 May 1864] and nn. 3 and 4. …
- … angustifolia stigmas with his memorandum of 6 May 1864. See postscript to letter to W. …
From W. E. Darwin 6 May 1864
Summary
Diagrams of short- and long-styled Pulmonaria under magnification.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A75–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 6 May 1864 …
- … DAR 110: A75–6 William Erasmus Darwin 6 May 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 9, and letter to W. …
- … E. Darwin, [after 14 April – 5 May 1864] ). William mentioned later that he thought all …
- … were ‘more or less bilobed’ (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] , and n. 7). …
- … With his letter to William of 3 May [1864] , CD sent long-styled and short-styled flowers …
- … sketches of anthers with his letter of 12 May [1864] ; he sent sketches of anthers in the …
- … bud with his letters of 18 May [1864] and …
- … 24 May 1864. CD had grown curious about the shape of the stigma in the two forms of the …
From W. E. Darwin [after 19 May 1864]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from a red cowslip.]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 19 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4369 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin [after 19 May 1864] …
- … DAR 108: 83 William Erasmus Darwin unstated [after 19 May 1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … E. Darwin, [ 30 April 1864] and n. 3). Possibly these two sketches were also attached to …
- … memorandum, the memorandum from W. E. Darwin, [30 April 1864], and the letter from W. …
- … E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] , in which he said he had received CD’s cowslip and would …
- … size. In the letter to W. E. Darwin, [14–17 May 1864] , and the letter from H. E. …
- … Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May 1864] , CD had asked that the cowslip pollen also be …
- … memorandum from W. E. Darwin of [30 April 1864]. This sketch was probably filed by CD …
- … by William of both dry and wet cowslip pollen, ‘1864–1865’ (see memorandum from W. …
To W. E. Darwin [14–17 May 1864]
Summary
Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [14–17 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4479 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin [14–17 May 1864] …
- … DAR 97: A3 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [14–17 May 1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … as CD had mentioned in his letter of 14 May [1864] ; William responded to CD’s request to …
- … observe the pollen dry in his letter of 18 May [1864] . See also letter from H. E. …
- … Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May 1864] . William had already sketched pollen for CD from …
- … red cowslip (see memorandum from W. E. Darwin, [30 April 1864] and nn. 3 and 4). In his …
- … letters to W. E. Darwin of 3 May [1864] and …
- … 5 May [1864] , CD had asked William to soak the yellow cowslip pollen the longest before …
- … styled Pulmonaria flower-buds, see the letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and n. 6). …
From W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Summary
Clarifies his letter of 18 May [4500].
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A82, A87–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4504 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864] …
- … DAR 110: A82, A87–8 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton [20 May 1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and nn. 4 and 5. See …
- … letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] and n. 5. CD refers to the counts of …
- … William had sent in his letter of 18 May [1864] . CD also recorded this information in the …
- … statements in William’s letter of 18 May [1864] has not been found. See letter from W. …
- … E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and n. 3; William is referring to his marked drawings of long- …
- … enclosure to William’s letter of 18 May [1864] , and may have asked if the long anthers on …
- … forms (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] and n. 2). William had already provided …
- … flowers (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] and n. 6). See also letter …
From W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864]
Summary
Sends specimens of Menyanthes with observations and drawings [see Forms of flowers, p. 115].
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B43–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4502 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864] …
- … DAR 110: B43–7 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton [19 May 1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] . By ‘Banting’, William may mean a diet for …
- … 1863 , and Chambers ). See letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and nn. 7 and 8. …
- … sent in the tin case are dated 20 May 1864 and are in DAR 110: B51. For William’s drawings …
- … you have. Your affect son | W E D— May 19— 1864 Menyanthes 1.1 I forgot … think. 1.2] …
- … in original Top of enclosure 1 : ‘May 19— 1864’ pencil Enclosure 1, verso : ‘Menyanthes’ …
- … collection to his notebook entry dated 19 May 1864 (DAR 117: 83). A copy of the notes, in …
- … from H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May 1864] and n. 3. See letter from H. …
- … E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May 1864] and n. 2. In Forms of flowers , pp. 294–5, …
- … his visit to Down from 21 to 25 April 1864 ( see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The …
To W. E. Darwin [after 14 April – 5 May 1864]
Summary
Describes difference between Pulmonaria flowers; wishes to know whether it is general.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Apr – 5 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4822 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin [after 14 April – 5 May 1864] …
- … 97: 9 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [after 14 Apr – 5 May 1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … reply regarding stigma shape, see his memorandum of 6 May 1864; see also letter from W. …
- … E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] and n. 7. …
- … the cover of the letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] , and by William’s drawing of …
- … stigmas in his memorandum of 6 May 1864. At some time, CD received seedlings of Pulmonaria …
- … of Wight plants, and a note dated 6 May 1864 in DAR 110: A51 begins, ‘Pulmonaria I. of …
- … style thickness in a note dated 6 May 1864 in DAR 110: A51, but, on the reverse side, CD …
To W. E. Darwin 5 May [1864]
Summary
Experiment instructions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 5 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4483 |
Matches: 5 hits
From W. E. Darwin [30 April 1864]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from red cowslip, magnified 350x.]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4478 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin [30 April 1864] …
- … DAR 108: 84 William Erasmus Darwin unstated [30 Apr 1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Top of page : ‘April 30 th 1864’ ink Below sketch of red cowslip pollen : ‘Mid-styled …
- … below, blue crayon ] Cowslip both dry & wet— 1864–1865’ pencil ; ‘ Oxlip ’ red crayon …
- … flowers , pp. 55–75, see the letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and nn. 15 and 16. …
- … from W. E. Darwin, [after 19 May 1864]). Fold-marks and pin-marks indicate that the two …
- … volume, letter to John Lubbock, [1 January 1864] and n. 4). See ‘Illegitimate offspring …
From W. E. Darwin 18 April 1864
Summary
CD is right about variability [of Pulmonaria]. Encloses observations and diagrams of additional plants.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A77–81b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4466 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 18 April 1864 …
- … DAR 110: A77–81b William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 18 Apr 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 5). See also William’s comment at …
- … letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and nn. 2 and 5; and Forms of flowers , pp. …
- … 1863 (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and nn. 1 and 6, and letter to W. …
- … E. Darwin, [after 14 April – 5 May 1864] and n. 2). William wrote about …
- … had withered in his letter of 14 April [1864] . CD mentioned William’s observation and …
- … and letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 2). See the enclosure for William’ …
- … species, see letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 4. See letter …
- … from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 5, and n. 1, above. …
- … See letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 8. The sketches of the flowers are …
From W. E. Darwin 14 April [1864]
Summary
Observations on [length of style and length of filament and stigmas of] Pulmonaria.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A68–74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4462 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 14 April [1864] …
- … DAR 110: A68–74 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 14 Apr [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to W. E. Darwin, [after 14 April – 5 May 1864] , and memorandum from W. …
- … E. Darwin, 6 May 1864. CD’s annotations of circled numbers on some of William’s letters, …
- … 2 : ‘2’ red crayon, circled red crayon ; ‘1864 | April 13 th ’ pencil Verso of enclosure …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 7 (1864): 69–83. [ Collected papers 2: 93–105. ] …
- … in the enclosure to his letter of 18 April 1864 . In 1863, William also sketched the forms …
- … see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 9, and Forms of flowers , p. …
- … 244). In a note dated 6 May 1864 in DAR 110: A51, CD wrote: ‘ Short-styled anthers have …
- … on Pulmonaria angustifolia , dated 26 April 1864, included the observation: ‘no great diff …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and nn. 9 and 10. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
From William Erasmus Darwin [15 March 1864]
Summary
Has drawn all three forms of primroses CD sent "with same result". Has found no pink variety with middle style.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 85, 173–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4416 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From William Erasmus Darwin [15 March 1864] …
- … DAR 108: 85, 173–4 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton [15 Mar 1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … n. 3, below). The Tuesday between Jenner’s visit (20 March 1864) and the date of what are …
- … probably the earlier sketches (12 March 1864) was 15 March. The reference is to the family …
- … see letter from W. E. Darwin, 22 March [1864] ). CD had experimented with the Chinese …
- … probably those in DAR 108: 88, dated 12 March 1864. These are of pollen from short-styled …
- … volume, letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and nn. 6, 7, 9–11, and CD’s notes in …
- … with others, with his letter of 22 March [1864] . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … s first visit to CD was on 20 March 1864. CD often purchased plants from the nurseryman …
From W. E. Darwin 22 March [1864]
Summary
Sends drawings of the pollen from Chinese Primula plants with styles and pistils of different lengths; observations on sizes and condition of their pollen.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 86–7, 175–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4434 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 22 March [1864] …
- … 108: 86–7, 175–7 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 22 Mar [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … William had also sent sketches of Primula sinensis pollen on 12 March 1864 and with his …
- … letter of [15 March 1864] ; these sketches are in DAR 108: 88 and 85 (see letter from W. …
- … E. Darwin, [15 March 1864] and n. 3). The sketches are reproduced here at 45 per cent of …
- … H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [16 March 1864] and n. 2, and n. 8, below. CD later …
To William Erasmus Darwin [1 May 1864]
Summary
Writes of dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [1 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5127 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To William Erasmus Darwin [1 May 1864] …
- … DAR 210.6: 122 Charles Robert Darwin Down [1 May 1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … wrote in her diary (DAR 242) for 30 April 1864, ‘Children from school & Alfred’ (see n. …
- … blue cowslip); in his letter of 3 May [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD sent flowers …
- … 1863] and nn. 2 and 3); a note dated 6 May 1864 in DAR 110: A51 begins, ‘Pulmonaria I. …
Document type
| letter | (56) |
Author
| Darwin, W. E. | (32) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (24) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Salt, Thomas | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, W. E. | |
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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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- … Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives the …
- … Darwin corresponded little during the first three months of 1864, dictating nearly all his letters …
- … had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin exclaimed to his close friend, …
- … letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the surgeon and naturalist …
- … his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the Copley being open to all …
- … five years earlier. His primary botanical preoccupation in 1864 was climbing plants. He had become …
- … ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin wrote to Hooker: ‘The …
- … produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). Darwin’s excitement about his …
- … & therefore sacred’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] ). When Darwin asked Oliver …
- … light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] ). Though Darwin replied with his …
- … . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October [1864] that he was continuing to study …
- … addition to his work on climbing plants, Darwin engaged in 1864 in botanical observations and …
- … were produced. Continuing from these earlier studies, in 1864 he conducted crossing experiments …
- … in causing sterility both within and between species in his 1864 paper, ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
- … trimorphic Lythrum , and when his health permitted in 1864 he drew up the results (see …
- … Darwin remarked to Hooker in a letter of 26 November [1864] that nothing had interested him so …
- … species with the common oxlip. In a letter of 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly wrote to …
- … flowers ). A household enterprise Darwin’s 1864 correspondence with family members …
- … Forms of flowers . The greatest assistance in 1864, however, was provided by William, Darwin …
- … minute and painstaking observations, writing on 14 April [1864] , ‘I can do as much pollen work …
- … letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] ), or his excitement when he …
- … for my stomach’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] ). Darwin was also impressed …
- … to inspire the research of others as well; he influenced the 1864 publication of a paper by another …
- … publish his new material on them. Nevertheless, his work in 1864 contributed to his 1869 paper …
- … continuing identification of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again …
- … on the orchid Oncidium to the Linnean Society in 1864 (Scott 1864b). Recognising Scott’s skills …
- … paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] ). Hooker’s series of …
- … over them’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] ). Hooker warned Darwin: ‘Do pray …
- … careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). Nevertheless, Hooker solicited and …
- … hastening the fall’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 ). In his reply of 25 April [1864] …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … of a fashionable spinal ice treatment. In April 1864, Darwin attributed his improved health to Dr …
- … gaining vigour .’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ) Why was Darwin’s so ill? …
- … vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 December [1864] ). On Darwin’s early stomach …
- … vol. 4). Throughout the winter of 1863 and spring of 1864, he was sick almost daily (see …
- … Chapman. In a letter to J. D. Hooker, [20-] 22 February [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), …
- … in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and 1865. ‘Bad hysteria & sickness …
- … 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] . Treatments and medications …
- … doses of chalk, magnesia, and other antacids in March 1864 (see Emma Darwin’s diary, DAR 242, and n. …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ). …
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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- … an important focus for his experiments. By the spring of 1864, he was thinking of expansion, telling …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864 ). The plan was quickly set in motion, and …
- … the work, while William Ledger did the building. By August 1864, he had spent £126 10s. on the new …
- … was replaced after Darwin’s death, and one section of the 1864 greenhouse was subsequently …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1864] ). In view of the importance of Darwin …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … W. E. Darwin's observations on Pulmonaria , 14 April [1864] Ernst Haeckel's …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 January 1864] Haeckel sends Darwin some …
- … Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] Darwin thanks Hooker for …
- … Letter 4469 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [20 April 1864] Hooker discusses the scientific …
- … Letter 4472 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [26 or 27 April 1864] Hooker once again discusses …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Annual Report, 1864, p. 32; Animal World , 1 February …
- … with the RSPCA; however, the RSPCA Annual Report for 1864 records that 'a benevolent lady, …
- … the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, in June 1864 ( The Times , 27 May 1864, p. 11, …
- … Darwin 2: 200). Although the RSPCA considered in 1864 that many game preservers had …
- … were 'awakening to its barbarity' (RSPCA Annual Report 1864, p. 32), the use of the steel …
- … payments being recorded from 1854 to 1861, in 1863 and 1864, from 1871 to 1875, and in 1878 and 1880 …
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…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … and Scotland (Lubbock 1862a, 1862b, and 1863a). In the July 1864 issue of Natural History Review …
- … address for the British Association meeting at Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By …
- … Darwin’s theory ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 213). In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from …
- … 3. Letters from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 22 February 1864 and 24 February 1864 (British …
- … 12. Letter from Hugh Falconer to John Lubbock, 24 May [1864], in (British Library, Add. MSS 49640) …
- … and gentlemen in the formation of the X Club, 1851–1864. Isis 89: 410–44. Bynum, William …
- … History Review n.s. 3: 211–19. Lubbock, John. 1864. Cave-men. Natural History Review n …
- … revised. London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1864. Presidential address. Report of the …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … & succeeding in India. John Scott to Darwin, 1864. I was astounded at …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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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- … Letter 4463 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., 14 Apr [1864] Scott thanks Darwin for his …
- … Letter 4468 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 19 [Apr 1864] Darwin makes another plea to his …
- … Letter 4469 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 20 Apr 1864 Hooker again refuses to help Scott, …
- … Letter 4471 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 25 Apr [1864] Darwin thinks his friend Kew …
- … Letter 4611 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 13 Sept [1864] Darwin sends abstract of John Scott …
- … Letter 4441 — Becker, Lydia to Darwin, C. R., 30 Mar 1864 Becker sends Darwin a copy of her …
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
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … a period of severe illness, which improved by March 1864 under the care of the physician William …
- … his brain or heart to be ‘primarily affected’. In March 1864, Darwin began to consult Jenner, who …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864], letter from William Jenner to …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … daughter reveal (J. D. Hooker to Darwin, 16 September 1864 ). In addition to his fears for …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had staunchly supported his candidacy, …
- … to CD’s theory of transmutation, in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to …
- … ), and wrote up his results on his voyage to India in late 1864, despite suffering from sea-sickness …
- … in learned societies and in the popular press. In December 1864, George Douglas Campbell, the duke …
- … this and that modification of structure’ (G. D. Campbell 1864, pp. 275–6). Campbell argued further …
3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
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- … the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. …
- … among the prints that William posted to his father in May 1864, since the photograph subsequently …
- … simply inscribed by hand on the back in pencil ‘C. Darwin 1864’ – the accuracy of the dating …
- … Erasmus Darwin date of creation April 1864 computer-readable date 1864-04 …
- … William Darwin’s letter to his father [19 May 1864] sending prints of his recent photograph (DCP …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … far more satisfied with the results. In 1860-61 and again in 1864 Charles Darwin sat for his eldest …
- … photographs of Darwin.The years between 1860 and 1864 took a physical and emotional toll on Darwin, …
- … and the Botany Libraries (left) and Charles Darwin, 1864, William Darwin, Dar 225:113, …
- … took the first portrait with his ‘venerable beard’ in 1864. Image: Charles Darwin, 1881, …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
