To J. B. Innes 5 October 1877
Summary
CD’s opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11168 |
From George Bentham 10 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers. Comments on the chapter on cleistogamic flowers; offers some corrections.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11046 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and Helianthemum in the family Cistaceae (rock rose), see Bentham 1826 , pp. 72, 87–9. …
To Richard Kippist 15 February 1877
Summary
Asks RK [Linnean Society Librarian] to send several journal volumes and articles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.506) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10845 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … on Helianthemum (the genus of frostweed and rock rose) appeared in the journal Adansonia ( …
From D. T. Fish 7 February 1877
Summary
Sends holly specimens. Differences in flowering times of various hollies.
| Author: | David Taylor Fish |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of pyramidal and other pears and also of Roses is often left as late as possible to assure …
From Alphonse de Candolle 14 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus paper.
Dislikes the word "protoplasm", because improved microscopes will uncover more fundamental substances. Also "plasma" merely hides the ignorance of modern chemists.
Expects waxy, glaucous-leaved plants to be most frequent in dry temperate climates.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11106 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … or iceplant; Cactaceae: cactus; Rosaceae: rose, apple, plum; Gramineae (a synonym of …
From J. V. Carus 20 January 1877
Summary
Lists misprints in Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sends observations and references relevant to a new edition of Expression.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10807 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … counted it ourselves, as the attention rose the number within the space of half a minute …
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Fish, D. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Linnean Society | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Fish, D. T. | (1) |
3.21 Herbert Rose Barraud, photos
Summary
< Back to Introduction The successful portrait photographer Herbert Rose Barraud, who had studios in London and Liverpool, photographed Darwin in the summer of 1881, in a group of four or so close-up head-and-shoulders portraits. This was probably at…
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Romanes, G. J. (138) Rose, C. B. (1) …
Darwin and working from home
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Ever wondered how Darwin worked? As part of our For the Curious series of simple interactives, ‘Darwin working from home’ lets you explore objects from Darwin’s study and garden at Down House to learn how he worked and what he had to say about it. And not…
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- … to the days: 7 am Rose and took a short walk. …
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Hog. on Culture of Carnation. Auricula. Polyanth tulip. Rose. Hyacinth. 6 s . a catalogue of vars. …
- … rs . Gores Manual of Roses [Gore 1838] River’s Rose Amateur Guide [Rivers 1837] …
- … 119: 8a Gore, Catherine Grace Frances. 1838. The rose fancier’s manual . London. …
- … . Paris. 128: 2 Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s guide; containing ample …
- … Cistineæ. The natural order of cistus, or rock rose … With … directions for their cultivation . …
Darwin’s earthquakes
Summary
Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … – a similar concept to modern tectonic plates – that rose and fell as the molten material beneath …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … scientific methodologies. The ecological movement, which rose to prominence in the 1970s, and which …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak tree. In all organic beings the …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … the roads were a succession of beaches formed as the land rose from the sea (‘Observations on the …
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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- … Darwin would be produced by the London photographer Herbert Rose Barraud. Barraud produced both …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … ridiculing Darwin ‘badly & Huxley savagely’. Huxley rose in response and ‘answered admirably’, …
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
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- … GRAY …he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and …
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…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
