To William Robinson 4 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for the copies of the Garden, which contain a drawing of CD and notice of his work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Robinson |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (28 September 2017, lot 37) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10346 |
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- … Thanks for the copies of the Garden , which contain a drawing of CD and notice of his …
- … Robinson had founded the Garden , a weekly illustrated horticultural magazine, in 1871. …
- … with an unsigned account of his botanical publications ( Garden 8 (1875): xi–xii). …
- … for your kind gift of six copies of the “Garden”, with a drawing of myself & a notice of …
To William Robinson 10 January [1876?]
Summary
Accepts WR’s offer of copies of the Garden for the next half-year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Robinson |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1876?] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10350 |
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- … Accepts WR’s offer of copies of the Garden for the next half-year. …
- … for your very kind offer of sending me the Garden. I have great scruples in accepting it, …
- … January 1876 . Robinson founded the Garden , a weekly illustrated horticultural magazine, …
- … Robinson, 4 January 1876 ). No copies of the Garden belonging to CD have been found. No …
From J. D. Hooker 18 December 1876
Summary
Notes variation in style and stamen length in Forsythia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B78a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10727 |
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- … p. 117. The Royal Horticultural Society had gardens in Kensington and Chiswick ( Elliott …
- … Royal Gardens Kew Dec 18/76 Dear Darwin Forsythia has never fruited at Kew but has …
- … copiously at the Hort. Soc. Gardens I do not know which species—. I have referred to two …
- … these is taken from a plant in Hort. Soc. Gardens 1.1 Forsythia ... species—. 1.2] double …
To James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Summary
JT may publish CD’s letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10442 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1876
Summary
JDH back from his honeymoon.
Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 66–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10642 |
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- … John Smith (1821–88) was curator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. George …
- … King was superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. The correspondent was John …
- … assistant director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Andrew Clark had been treating CD …
- … India which D r King of the Calcutta Gardens forwards from some correspondent of yours. We …
From Allen Thomson 31 December 1876
Summary
Is happy to sign F. M. Balfour’s application for admission to the Royal Society.
Remembers CD from Edinburgh days.
| Author: | Allen Thomson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10740 |
From James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Summary
Requests permission to publish CD’s previous letter [10440].
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10441 |
To John Scott 15 December 1876
Summary
CD is eager for further information about Lagerstroemia, which is sterile with its own pollen. Does the collection of dried plants reveal more than one form? Plans to republish papers on dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 15 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10721F |
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- … was superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta (now Kolkata), where Scott was …
- … sterile with their own pollen in your gardens. Can you give me any further information? …
- … have a collection of dried plants in the gardens, and if so would you kindly look at the …
- … L. indica were sterile in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. CD described the extreme …
To John Scott 1 July 1876
Summary
CD has read the two reports on culture of poppies with interest and has planted seeds.
Suggests an experiment for evidence on whether plants, thought merely varieties, are like species and fail to intercross, despite insect pollination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 1 July 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10555 |
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- … Scott was in charge of the experimental gardens at Deegah and Meetapore near Bankipore, …
- … seasons ( Scott 1874 and 1876) to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In a letter to William …
- … Correspondence 156/1096; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Scott requested that copies be sent …
- … the vars of cabbages carnations, &c in our gardens? I would suggest your castrating the …
- … Correspondence 156/1094–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Scott enclosed two packages of …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 8 August [1876]
Summary
Thanks for WTT-D’s kindness about the orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10573 |
From James Torbitt 7 April 1876
Summary
Believes publishing CD’s letter will enable JT to suppress the potato disease several years sooner.
Returns CD’s answer to JT’s question "What is an individual?", and repeats his request for permission to publish it.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10443 |
From Peter Henderson 15 November 1876
Summary
Reports graft-hybrids in Cytisus.
| Author: | Peter Henderson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10673 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 February [1876]
Summary
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10391 |
To H. E. Wedgwood [28 May 1876]
Summary
Asks her to send seeds from a flower in the garden at Hopedene, and the name of a dwarf crimson Oxalis.
Expresses appreciation of the house, which the Darwins have borrowed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hope Elizabeth (Dot) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [28 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10514 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 1 September 1876
Summary
Thanks for Catasetum and other specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 45–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10585 |
From Thomas Moore to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 February 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s request for the names of species from which Cineraria varieties supplied to him have sprung. [Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 335 n.]
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10394 |
From M. D. Conway 12 October [1876]
Summary
Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".
| Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13785 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 26 April [1876]
Summary
Asks for titles of papers on structure of Nepenthes for use by R. L. Tait. Mentions paper by RLT.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 62–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10477 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. , Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 August 1876
Summary
Requests orchid specimens for experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 41–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10569 |
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- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. , Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 September [1876]
Summary
Would like Catasetum and Acropera plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10612 |
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- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. , Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
17 Spring Gardens, London
Summary
Darwin in London preparing for the voyage
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- … 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…
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- … 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…
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- … 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. …
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- … 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…
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- … 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…
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- … 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
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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
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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…
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- … 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…
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- … can be seen a distant view of Down House amid its trees and gardens, with smoke rising from the …
British Association meeting 1860
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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
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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
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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…
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- … for the prize, was held at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, in June 1864 ( The …
Peradeniya, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Summary
Exaggerated manner
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- … The Superintendent of the Peradeniya botanic gardens relates his own observations of expression, and …
Darwin's bad days
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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 …
