To J. J. Weir 14 June [1870]
Summary
Asks about birds erecting feathers when enraged or frightened. Interested in examples of expression in birds and animals.
Tells of the sheldrake dancing on tidal sands to make worms come out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 14 June [1870] |
| Classmark: | University of Redlands, Armacost Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7231 |
To John Tyndall 8 September 1870
Summary
CD finds JT’s discourse "grand and most interesting" [On the scientific use of the imagination (1870)]. Flattered by what JT says about him.
He is "a rash man to say a good word for Pangenesis for it has hardly a friend among naturalists".
CD is much struck with what JT says about "pondering" and delighted by his "as if" argument.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 8 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | The Michael Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, reference RI MS JT/2/10/458, spine title: Journal V111A 1858–71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7319 |
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- … was much more strongly marked in the tropics than in our temperate regions— On one day …
To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1870]
Summary
Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.
A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 164–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115 |
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- … was 12 to 14, the established norms in the tropics being 1 to 5 ( Barkly 1870 , p. 95). …
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
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- … that temperate plants had crossed through the tropics during a global cool period, see …
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … field naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[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…
Movement in Plants
Summary
The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … begun to produce aerial roots. Darwin had hoped to study the tropic movements of such roots, but …
