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From Édouard Heckel   23 September 1880

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Supervising French translation of Movement in plants. Why does not CD consider spontaneous movements of flower parts, which EMH sees also as circumnutation?

Author:  Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Sept 1880
Classmark:  DAR 166: 129
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12723

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  • … such a small work on convolvulus arvensis (a monstrosity) in which you will recognise the …
  • … L. ; conditions of formation of this monstrosity; Heckel 1880a ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet …
  • … L. ; artificial creation of this last monstrosity; Heckel 1880b ). Heckel eventually …
  • … L. ; artificial creation of this monstrosity. — Stamina multiplication and petalody of …
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Darwin and Design

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century in Britain, religion and the sciences were generally thought to be in harmony. The study of God’s word in the Bible, and of his works in nature, were considered to be part of the same truth. One version of this…

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  • … Buckland remarked that the animal was an ‘apparent monstrosity of external form’. But he argued that …

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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  • … I saw “ravenous monsters of Sharks” – their monstrosity consisting in their having two terrible …

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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  • … detriment of its native vigor, or to the extent of practical monstrosity, although we secure forms …

Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…

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  • … mother, the subjects of Siebold’s study of medical monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 …