To Edward Vivian 23 August [1872]
Summary
Thanks for valuable information [about worms?]. "The more I investigate the extreme amount of work effected, the more perplexed as yet I become."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Vivian |
| Date: | 23 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR474) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8485 |
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To Henry Johnson 2 May [1872]
Summary
Thanks for notes on worm-castings. Amount of ammonia surprises CD. David Forbes asserts that published analysis of carbon in vegetable matter valueless. Suspects that worms search for food and do not blindly swallow earth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 2 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR470) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8306 |
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From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 19 October 1872
Summary
On his mother’s death.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 124–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8565 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1872
Summary
Gladstone’s private secretary [West] has written that the Government plans to alter JDH’s position with regard to the First Commissioner of Works [Ayrton].
Huxley is not better after his Brighton trip.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8136 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
| Vivian, Edward | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
| Vivian, Edward | (1) |
Orchids
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Why Orchids? Darwin wrote in his Autobiography, ‘During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross-fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, from having come to the conclusion in my…
Insectivorous plants
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Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, staying with his wife’s relatives in Hartfield, Sussex, he went for long walks on the heathland and became curious about the large number of insects caught by…
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- … end he managed a few experiments in May before going to Torquay for the summer and putting off …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … the Darwin family were in residence at the seaside resort of Torquay. Even though the trip halted a …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … Darwin asked Philip Henry Gosse, a writer and naturalist in Torquay, about reproduction in Ophrys …
