From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 3 February 1878]
Summary
The amphicarpic habit.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5825 |
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- … quickly ( Bentham 1826 , p. 85). Amphicarpaea (hog peanut) is a small genus of vines in …
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| letter | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Date
| 1878 | (1) |
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Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more glad to get your Hog case,’ Darwin confided to Wyman, ‘as I …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
