From Robert Thomson 24 July 1864
Summary
Observations on insects visiting Melastomataceae.
| Author: | Robert Thomson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4574 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … DAR 178: 117 Robert Thomson Botanic Garden, Jamaica 24 July 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … resources of the West Indies. Royal Gardens, Kew. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. …
- … on the road to Annotto Bay. Land for the garden at Castleton had been purchased in 1857. …
- … under Wilson’s direction, helped to establish the new garden ( Morris 1898 , pp. 137–44). …
- … who was curator of the oldest botanical garden in Jamaica, located at Bath, was also …
- … the establishment of a new botanical garden at Castleton, nineteen miles north of Kingston …
- … Botanic Garden | Golden Spring P.O. | Jamaica 24 July 1864 Sir Being informed by M r . …
- … I was appointed M r Wilson’s assistant by Sir W. Hooker in Kew Garden two years ago. I …
- … am engaged in the formation of a new Botanic Garden. There is not the slightest attempt at …
- … Flora of the Island. The chief object of the garden is as a Nursery for the propogation of …
- … were systematically represented, the garden would acquire an important position, and be of …
From John Scott 10 March 1864
Summary
Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4423 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden. …
- … propagating department at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in his letter of 28 March …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … to say that I have now left the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, and at present am residing …
From J. D. Hooker 6 April 1864
Summary
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4452 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters …
- … s immediate supervisor at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. See letter from John Scott, …
- … enjoyed good health when he was in the garden. I shall be glad if he can get appointment …
- … letter he asks how you are. Royal Botanic Garden | Edinburgh 5 April 1864 Dear Hooker John …
- … was for a considerable time in the Botanic Garden. He was sober and industrious, & most …
- … of him neglecting his work in the garden. On that account he left us. His manner is not …
- … the Library and Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (English letters 1856–1900, vol. 98: …
From Charles Cardale Babington 18 May 1864
Summary
Glad to hear CD well again.
Will send Lythrum hyssopifolium flowers from Botanic Garden if they are in bloom; does not know where to find wild specimen, but thinks they are same as garden type.
Is finishing his course of lectures, which was attended by 35–45 people.
| Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4499 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … send Lythrum hyssopifolium flowers from Botanic Garden if they are in bloom; does not know …
- … specimen, but thinks they are same as garden type. Is finishing his course of lectures, …
- … certainty: but it is the same as wild in the garden. I am just about finishing my short …
- … see the next time that I go to the Botanic Garden. We had it there last year & I hope that …
- … management of the University Botanic Garden. Babington gave an annual course of lectures …
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1864
Summary
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 208–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4469 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Press. 1985–. Desmond, Ray. 1995. Kew: the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens. London: …
- … Harvill Press with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Record of the Royal Society of London : …
- … William Bertram. 1959. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, past and present. London: Herbert …
- … instructional value of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the nineteenth century, see R. …
- … in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For information on the herbarium at …
- … s father, William Jackson Hooker , was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Hooker …
- … Hermann Crüger , director of the Botanic Garden, Trinidad. See also letter from J. D. …
- … keeping up the public value of the Garden & scientific value of the Museum as an …
- … properly conducted at a Horticultural Garden, & appertain to scientific horticulture—which …
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … 1.2 of Calcutta] after ‘Director of Bot. Garden’ interl pencil 1.6 & Scotts … objection. …
- … The role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens. New York: Academic Press. ‘Climbing …
- … propagating department at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in March 1864 (see letter …
- … superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, and, from September 1864, conservator of …
- … the author. McCracken, Donal P. 1997. Gardens of empire: botanical institutions of the …
- … find him inexpensive quarters at the Bot. Gardens for some weeks. India is now the place …
- … the impact of Kew and the colonial botanic gardens in spreading the cultivation of these …
- … made for the museum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
To John Hutton Balfour 15 September [1864]
Summary
Inquires which nurserymen near Edinburgh cultivate coloured primroses and cowslips. Wants to repeat John Scott’s remarkable experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4613 |
From William Robinson 19 November 1864
Summary
Identifies a climbing plant that CD saw at the Society’s gardens.
| Author: | William Robinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4675 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … from his employment at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (see letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … Royal Gardens Kew March 29/64. Dear Darwin I am delighted to hear of the blessed 52 hours …
- … nothing of Scott’s leaving the Ed h . Bot Gardens— his election for L.S. cannot come in I …
- … Press. 1985–. Desmond, Ray. 1995. Kew: the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens. London: …
- … Harvill Press with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. DNB : Dictionary of national biography. …
- … plant for his collection or live one for the Garden or pine-cone for the Museum. — Yet he …
- … Comprising the plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew and of other botanical establishments in …
- … the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Hooker refers to his father, William …
- … for the establishment of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1839, when Russell was home …
- … the Library and Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174). See …
From J. D. Hooker [2 April 1864]
Summary
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4445 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Press. 1985–. Desmond, Ray. 1995. Kew: the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens. London: …
- … Harvill Press with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. DNB : Dictionary of national biography. …
- … place for John Scott at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, that would provide Scott with the …
- … and n. 4). William Jackson Hooker was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For CD’ …
- … gardeners working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, without pay, see his letter to Hooker …
- … The orchid collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, had diminished between 1850 and …
- … would undertake the work you want in such a garden as ours, or in any one indeed where he …
- … have tools, seed, plants, & the run of the gardens at all hours, private keys, hot-house …
From J. D. Hooker [20 February 1864]
Summary
Sends a Corydalis.
Hermann Crüger’s paper [see 4394] splendid, but he has made a mess of propagating Cinchona in Trinidad.
JDH’s opinion of Germans.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Feb 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4413 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … The role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens. New York: Academic Press. ‘Climbing …
- … 9, Library and Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). The bark of Cinchona is a source of …
- … Press. 1910–11. McCracken, Donal P. 1997. Gardens of empire: botanical institutions of the …
- … his letter of 17 February [1864] . Crüger was director of the Trinidad Botanic Garden. …
- … The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, with assistance from the …
- … supplied a number of colonial botanic gardens in India, the West Indies, and elsewhere …
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [1864?]
Summary
Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4365 |
From J. H. Balfour 22 September 1864
Summary
Does not know an Edinburgh nurseryman who can supply the cowslips and primroses CD wants; will try to get them from the Botanic Garden.
Hears from Hooker that CD is also examining Lythrum.
| Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4620 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … will try to get them from the Botanic Garden. Hears from Hooker that CD is also examining …
- … write to Edin and endeavour to get the specimens you want from our Botanic Garden. I think …
- … that Scott got his plants in the garden— I am glad to hear that you are carrying on your …
- … was regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ( R. Desmond 1994 ). CD had begun …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
From J. D. Hooker [11 June 1864]
Summary
CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.
JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.
Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 June 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4529 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 …
- … John Bain , curator of Trinity College Garden, Dublin ( R. Desmond 1994 ). Harvey refers …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … D Hooker A curious divarication of the common garden Myosotis (which I suppose to be M. …
- … to their normal conditions? — Bain has in his garden the old mother plant of the variety “ …
From John Scott [13 January 1864]
Summary
Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.
Sends promised Linum seeds.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4385 |
To Roland Trimen 13 May 1864
Summary
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 13 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4493 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by …
- … honest. Does Strelitzia reginæ grow in any gardens at the Cape? I strongly suspect it must …
- … McGibbon was superintendent of the Botanic Garden, Cape Town ( R. Desmond 1994 ). See also …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … Murray. 1877. McCracken, Donal P. 1997. Gardens of empire: botanical institutions of the …
To J. D. Hooker [1 April 1864]
Summary
Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 226a–b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4444 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … William Jackson Hooker was Hooker’s father and director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. …
- … Murray. 1876. Desmond, Ray. 1995. Kew: the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens. London: …
- … Harvill Press with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ML : More letters of Charles Darwin: a …
- … pp. 283–4). At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the post equivalent to superintendent was …
- … for gardeners at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, see Desmond and Hepper 1993, pp. 10–11, …
To John Scott 21 May [1864]
Summary
Encloses an extract from a letter received from [J. D.] Hooker which suggests a job opportunity in India. Advises careful reflection about the risks and the need for a character recommendation. Would like to support the costs of the voyage and initial living expenses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 21 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4505F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … The role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens. New York: Academic Press. Correspondence : …
- … Antique Collectors’ Club with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. DNB : Dictionary of national …
- … as assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Hooker had numerous contacts …
- … individuals employed in colonial botanic gardens and plantations (see Brockway 1979 ). CD …
- … Scott’s superiors at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, where he had worked as foreman …
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden. Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … grieve to hear that he has left Bot. Garden & says nothing about the cause or the future. …
- … had left his employment at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in his letter of 10 March …
- … was leaving the post at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Hooker was also considering the …
- … to settle in Kew, near the Royal Botanic Gardens; Blyth had returned from India earlier in …
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1864
Summary
Men of Scott’s Celtic temperament are very troublesome. Tries to dissuade CD from hiring him as a scientific gardener.
George Rolleston, not Spencer, wrote review of Schleiden [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 187–99].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 206–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4457 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … The only thing I can think of is a Nursery Garden of his own, but then he would never make …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … 1864 . The gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has not been identified. See letter …
- … offered to gardeners at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the nineteenth century, see …
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17 Spring Gardens, London
Summary
Darwin in London preparing for the voyage
Matches: 1 hits
- … Darwin is living in London persuading Fitzroy to accept him on the voyage and preparing clothing, …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
Summary
Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
Matches: 1 hits
- … with his works. In 1868, Darwin wrote to the zoological gardens in Amsterdam (Natura Artis …
Descent
Summary
There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
Matches: 1 hits
- … a multitude of breeders & visiting them & the zoological Gardens ’. One of those breeders …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
Matches: 9 hits
- … Anthony) Director of the Rotterdam Zoological Gardens, President of the Netherland …
- … de Piscieulturist at the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens "Natura Artis Magistra" …
- … President of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens "Natura Artis Magistra" …
- … Director of the Hague Royal Zoological Botanical Gardens. 54 Den Haag 28 may …
- … A Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens “Natura Artis Magistra”. …
- … A Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens “Natura Artis Mag.” …
- … Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens “Natura Artis Magistra”. …
- … Assistant Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens “Natura Artis Mag.” …
- … of the Leijden University’s Royal Botanical Gardens. Leiden …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
Summary
Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to ‘experimentise’ on the hawks in the Zoological Gardens . He was delighted when the birds …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
Matches: 9 hits
- … Anthony) Director of the Rotterdam Zoological Gardens, President of the Netherland …
- … de Pisciculturist at the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens "Natura Artis Magistra" …
- … President of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens "Natura Artis Magistra" …
- … Director of the Hague Royal Zoological Botanical Gardens. 54 Den Haag 28 May …
- … A Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens “Natura Artis Magistra”. …
- … A Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens “Natura Artis Magistra”. …
- … Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens “Natura Artis Magistra”. …
- … Assistant Director of the Amsterdam Royal Zoological Gardens “Natura Artis Magistra”. …
- … of the Leijden University’s Royal Botanical Gardens. Leiden …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 2 April 1874 ), a high price that aggrieved Darwin. Gardens and gardeners Darwin’s …
Orchids
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Summary
The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
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Instinct and the Evolution of Mind
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
Summary
In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
Matches: 4 hits
- … and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and J. D. Hooker’s father, …
- … Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, that he should repeat …
- … had recently accepted the position of curator of the botanic gardens at Calcutta. Scott eventually …
- … had been offered the directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( letter from F. H. Hooker, 13 …
4.51 Frederick Holder 'Life and Work'
Summary
< Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American naturalist Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1891, sought to present him as ‘an example to the youth of all lands’ (p. v). Thus ‘our hero’ was shown to have…
Matches: 1 hits
- … can be seen a distant view of Down House amid its trees and gardens, with smoke rising from the …
British Association meeting 1860
Summary
Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … by Natural Selection—a theory open—like the Zoological Gardens (from a particular cage in which it …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
Matches: 1 hits
- … for the prize, was held at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, in June 1864 ( The …
Darwin's bad days
Summary
Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
Summary
< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
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- … A hippopotamus had been born at the London Zoological Gardens on 5 November, exciting great public …
