To J. D. Hooker 22 October [1864]
Summary
To Lyell’s chagrin, CD has come round again to A. C. Ramsay’s glacial theory.
On primrose and cowslip, CD maintains they are good species, notwithstanding Scott’s work.
CD defines species by power of remaining constant for a good long time and showing appreciable amount of difference from close species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4642 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Gray, 3 October 1864 (see letter from J. D. …
- … and this volume, letter to A. C. Ramsay, 12 July [1864] , and letter from J. B. …
- … from R. I. Murchison, 19 August 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 August 1864] ). …
- … in early September 1864 (see his notes in DAR 70: 115–6, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 …
- … and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 26[–8] October 1864 . CD enclosed the letter from Asa …
- … J. D. Hooker, [16? October 1864] and n. 2, and letter from W. H. Harvey, 8 November [ …
- … J. D. Hooker, 8 October [1864] and n. 11, and letter from J. D. Hooker, [16? October …
- … 1862 ). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 and nn. 14 and 15. CD …
- … 1864 ); the second page begins with the words ‘time to write, or think,’ and ends with ‘than carries any other’, and discusses the progress of the American Civil War. See letter …
- … 1864 and n. 2). However, he had also been impressed by Roderick Impey Murchison’s critique of the theory ( Murchison 1864b ; see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1864]
Summary
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4461 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … In his letter of 8 April 1864 , Hooker had advised CD how to reply to John Scott’s request …
- … Jenner to Emma Darwin, [17 March 1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 March 1864 and …
- … him for a foreign appointment. See letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 . For an example …
- … of Scott’s recent botanical research, see the letter from John Scott, 28 March 1864 . …
- … finished the paper about 25 May 1864 (see also letter to Asa Gray, 25 February [1864] , …
- … See also letter from William Jenner, 14 August 1864 . CD had first become interested in …
- … Office, RG9/462: 70, 74)). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] , n. 19. …
- … See also letters to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] and nn. 3–5, and 7 April [1864] and …
- … Society on 16 June 1864. CD refers to [Oliver] 1864a (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 …
- … s note to Hooker (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). In CD’s ‘Journal’, he …
- … Appendix II; see also letter to T. H. Huxley, 11 April [1864] and n. 6). Emma Darwin …
- … of carbonate of magnesia, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 , n. 9. …
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: 9 hits
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 , and the letter from John Scott, 28 May [1864] . …
- … letter from John Scott, 2 August 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [16 August 1864] , …
- … of Joseph Dalton Hooker’s letter to CD of 19 May 1864 , in which he had offered to assist …
- … resignation in March (see letter from John Scott, 10 March 1864 ). For an indication of …
- … and McNab, see the letter from John Scott, 28 May [1864] . Without Scott’s knowledge, …
- … India in June (see second letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] ); this was the first of …
- … Disemma , and Tacsonia , and on Verbascum (see letters from John Scott , 5 May [1864] and …
- … abilities to Hooker ( see letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 and enclosure). CD gave …
- … 1864] ). Scott completed the first of these papers ( Scott 1864d ) before his departure, and worked on his Verbascum paper on the voyage (see Correspondence vol. 13, letters …
To Asa Gray 29 October [1864]
Summary
Sends question [missing] for an ornithologist.
Is plodding on at Variation.
Has added to Climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 29 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (88) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4647 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … 1863] , and this volume, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] ). The Daily News was a …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 . …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 . The other letter has not been found. The …
- … first enclosure to the letter from Asa Gray, 5 December 1864 and nn. 4 and 22. CD may …
- … Cambridge, Massachusetts (see letter from Asa Gray, 5 December 1864 ). CD refers to [T. …
- … illness (see also letter from William Jenner, 15 October 1864 and n. 2). Mary Elizabeth …
- … s diary (DAR 242)). See letter from William Jenner, 9 November 1864 and n. 1. CD was …
- … Huxley, 5 October 1864 . See letter from B. D. …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 October [1864] and nn. 2 and 4, and letter from T. H. …
- … 1864; however, CD continued making observations on the subject after mid-September (see, for example, letter …
- … 1864 . CD had been disappointed by the reception of his theory among entomologists (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 May [1867] ( Calendar no. 5544)). CD had been taking phosphate of iron since 21 August 1864 ( …
- … 1864], in DAR 157.1: 66–9, 97–8, 124, and 137). CD’s study of climbing plants had originally been inspired by Gray’s work ( Gray 1858 ) on the movements of the tendrils of cucurbitaceous plants (see ‘Climbing plants’ , p. 1, and Autobiography , p. 129). CD and Emma had long been dissatisfied with the coverage of the American Civil War in The Times (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
To J. D. Hooker [27 January 1864]
Summary
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 Jan 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4398 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … Letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 , and letter to J. D. …
- … by CD’s reference to his letter of [25 January 1864] having crossed with Hooker’ …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1864] , and letter to D. F. Nevill, 7 September 1874 ( …
- … Hooker, [25 January 1864] . See letter from J. D. …
- … DAR 157.2: 78, and letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 March [1864] ). He offered several examples …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 . See letter from J. D. …
- … s of 24 January 1864. The first Wednesday following these two letters was 27 January. …
- … in the letter from Daniel Oliver, [28 January – 8 February 1864] . CD was interested in …
- … Hooker, 24 January 1864 and n. 19. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1864] and …
- … Herbert Spencer . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 and nn. 3–8. See …
- … VI, and this volume, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1864] and n. 3). The flowers …
- … Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 ). Hooker passed …
- … 1864 in DAR 157.1: 121). The other botanists he alludes to include the naturalist Thomas Thomson , who had asserted that vine tendrils were modified stems (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … 1864 and n. 18. CD refers to his daughter Henrietta Emma Darwin , who was 21 years old, and his youngest son, Horace Darwin , who was 13 years old. On Horace’s illness, see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
To Ernst Haeckel 21 November [1864]
Summary
Sends Living Cirripedia [vol. 2].
Has employed translator for Fritz Müller’s book [Für Darwin (1864)].
Thanks for paper and speech.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4676 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Haeckel, [after 10] August – 8 October [1864] , and letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
- … CD refers to Haeckel 1864b and 1863 (see letter to Ernst Haeckel, 9 March 1864 , and nn. …
- … 2 and 3, and letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] and n. 15). Annotated copies of …
- … this letter and the letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 . Haeckel had accepted CD’s …
- … and Carl Gegenbaur. See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 and nn. 5 and 6. …
- … Haeckel 1866 . See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 and n. 8. …
- … F. Müller 1864 . See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 and n. 11. CD probably …
- … 1864 read to him in the late spring and summer of 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
From John Scott 14 April [1864]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s consoling letter. His mind cannot concentrate after losing his position, and he feels "an inward dread of life’s future". Would have been glad to work for CD. Understands why Hooker cannot recommend him.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4463 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … in several editions ( DNB , NUC ). See letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 and n. 6. …
- … he sent this paper to CD with his letter of 5 May [1864] . Scott may also be referring to …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 . …
- … See letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 . Scott had been carrying …
- … with CD (see, for example, letters from John Scott , 19 March 1864 . He had also recently …
- … 1864c, and 1864d (see letters from John Scott , 19 March 1864 and nn. 4, 5, and 9, and …
- … House to work on scientific subjects (see letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 and n. 4). …
- … Dalton Hooker , see letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 . David Page was an Edinburgh …
- … Garden, Edinburgh (see letters from John Scott , 10 March 1864 and 28 March 1864 ). Scott …
- … see also enclosure to letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] . The relatives Scott refers …
From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865
Summary
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4838 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Haeckel, 8 October [1864] , and letter to J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 28 August [1864] and [1 September 1864] , and letter to T. H. …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letters from Ernst Haeckel , 9 [July 1864] , 10 August [1864] , …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 and n. 12. Huxley’s …
- … to T. H. Huxley, 3 October [1864] and n. 2, letter to Ernst …
- … 8 October [1864] . CD had at first considered replying to Kölliker himself (see letters to …
- … 1864 ). On the reception of CD’s theory in Germany, see also Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … 1864] and n. 3). Haeckel later criticised Kölliker’s review in Haeckel 1866 , 1: 100–1 n. Huxley refers to John Chapman and the Westminster Review . See letter …
- … 1864, are in the Darwin Library–CUL. For CD’s enthusiastic response to Huxley’s review of Kölliker, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
- … letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] ). Huxley delivered the Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institution on 2 June 1865 ( Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 4: 461–3); the lecture was on the methods and results of ethnology, and was later published in the Fortnightly Review ( T. H. Huxley 1865 ). Huxley refers to Ernst Haeckel . Haeckel had written to CD in 1864 …
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1864]
Summary
CD apologises for having asked JDH to help him with Scott and now seeks advice on how to break the news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4455 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … 1. In the postscript to his letter of 28 March 1864 , John Scott had asked CD if Hooker …
- … and 11, and this volume, letters from John Scott , 7 January [1864] and n. 3, [13 January …
- … mentioned this possibility in his letters to Hooker of [1 April 1864] and 5 April [1864] . …
- … see enclosure to the letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). See letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n. 10, and letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 …
- … by CD (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] ). See also letters from J. D. …
- … 4 April 1864] , and 6 April 1864 . Balfour mentioned in his letter to Hooker that Scott’s …
- … see enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). CD had been encouraging …
To J. D. Hooker 8 October [1864]
Summary
Huxley has answered Kölliker in Natural History Review [(1864): 566–80].
CD is correcting two of Scott’s papers; is convinced primrose and cowslip are two good species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4630 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 August [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August …
- … 1864d in the spring and summer of 1864 (see letters from John Scott , 28 March 1864 and …
- … nn. 15–17, 5 May [1864], and first letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] ). A slip for ‘ …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [28 September 1864] . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [28 September …
- … 2, and letter to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10] August – 8 October [1864] . CD had been …
- … South Africa (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [28 September 1864] and n. 7). According to …
- … see, for example, CD’s letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] , and notes on species …
- … Review ([T. H. Huxley] 1864a). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 October [1864] and n. …
- … Scott 1864a ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 and n. 5. CD refers to …
- … of flowers , p. 32). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 17. In Forms of …
- … never completed (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n. 10). On CD’ …
- … 1864 ( General index to the Journal of the Linnean Society ). There are annotated copies of Scott 1864b and 1864d in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. For a discussion of the nature of the experiments described in these papers and CD’s role in encouraging Scott to undertake them, see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4429 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … see letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 12 March [1864] , and letter from J. D. …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, 15 June 1864 ). Letter from Daniel Oliver, 12 March 1864 . CD felt that his …
- … 1863] ). See also letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 12 March [1864] and n. 4. …
- … 1864 ). Hooker did not send the spiral twiner Combretum argenteum with this shipment; however, CD did acquire it later, mentioning his observations of it in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 18 and 24 (see letter …
To J. T. Moggridge 1[7] July [1864]
Summary
Discusses dimorphism in flowers. Describes his experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Date: | 1[7] July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 373 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4563 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … from George Bentham, 10 July 1864 , and the letter from J. T. Moggridge, 15 July [ …
- … mistook CD’s 7 for a 2. With his letter of 15 July [1864] , Moggridge included seeds and a …
- … of Trichonema rollii . See letter from George Bentham, 10 July 1864 and n. 5. See letter …
- … from J. T. Moggridge, 15 July [1864] . The letter to Moggridge containing CD’s original …
- … oxlip ( P. elatior ) (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 June [1864] and n. 6, ‘Specific …
- … not been found. See letter from J. T. Moggridge, 15 July [1864] and n. 4. CD eventually …
- … and P. vulgaris (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 17, and that the …
To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1864]
Summary
W. H. Harvey’s dandelion case worth publishing.
Suspects the uniform Primula elatior JDH referred to is a distinct species.
Scott’s paper on Passiflora shows variability of reproductive systems.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4531 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Harvey in his letter of [11 June 1864] . See letter from W. …
- … Thwaites . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] . See letter from J. D. …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . See letter from W. H. Harvey, 19 May 1864 …
- … See first letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] and n. 2. CD refers to Joseph Decaisne . …
- … Hooker, [11 June 1864] . See letter to J. D. …
- … H. Harvey, 19 May 1864 and n. 4, letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 14, and enclosure to letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [11 June 1864] and n. 3. Hooker had enclosed a letter from William Henry …
- … by insects. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] and n. 7. CD refers to James …
- … CD refers to John Scott . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] . Scott 1864d . …
- … 1864] and n. 17. Henry Doubleday had first called CD’s attention to the existence of a form of oxlip ( Primula elatior ) distinct from the common oxlip in 1860, and had supplied him with seedlings (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter …
To A. R. Wallace [c. 10 April 1864]
Summary
Has seen that ARW has read a paper to the Linnean Society.
Thinks that Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics (Spencer 1851) would be too deep for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [c. 10 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | The Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/856) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … from A. R. Wallace, 2 January 1864 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1864] . …
- … 1864 ( A. R. Wallace 1864b ). In his letter of 10 May 1864 , Wallace mentioned that he was …
- … his Papilionidae paper. In his letter of 2 January 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12), Wallace …
- … 10 May 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12), in which Wallace mentioned CD’s ‘letter of a month …
- … 1864–7 ) was issued in parts, beginning in 1863. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
To John Scott 8 January [1864]
Summary
Glad correspondent’s paper went well.
Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13882 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … With his letter of 7 January [1864] , Scott included a note about a point …
- … of this letter to the letters from John Scott , 7 January [1864] and [13 January 1864] . …
- … manuscript of Scott 1864a (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and enclosure 1). …
- … See letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and nn. 12–14. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) …
To J. D. Hooker [1 September 1864]
Summary
CD continues to have trouble reconciling the Veitch’s names for Bignonia plants and Kew names.
Lyell and Falconer called on CD in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [1 Sept 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4605 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … 4, 17 August [1864] , and 28 August [1864] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, 26 August 1864 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 . CD described the …
- … J. D. Hooker, 28 August [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 . Charles …
- … Albert von Kölliker . See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 and n. 12, letter to …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 . In 1864, 1 September was …
- … Tautphoeus 1857 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 August 1864 . The plate has not been …
- … and Falconer (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 March 1864 and n. 18). In September …
- … of Dolichandra unguis-cati ). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 11 August [1864] and n. …
- … 1864] are in DAR 157.2: 23–4. Mutisia was one of the genera suggested by Hooker when CD began his research on climbing plants in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
To J. D. Hooker [25 January 1864]
Summary
CD’s illness.
The difficulty of getting John Scott to publish his work. Has sent Scott’s paper [on Primulaceae] to Linnean Society. CD is sure it is valuable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4397 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … with Hooker’s letter of 24 January 1864 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January …
- … and the Linnean Society . See letter from John Scott, [13 January 1864] and nn. 5 …
- … and 13. See letter from John Scott, [13 January 1864] and nn. 4, 5, and 6. …
- … 10 (pp. 239–328) of Spencer 1864–7 , vol. 1. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January …
- … in January 1864; for 24 January she wrote ‘rheumatism & excellent day’ (see also letter to …
- … and 6. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] and nn. 12 …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 9 January 1864
Summary
CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4383 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Society and it was read on 4 February 1864 (see letter to John Scott, 6 February [1864] ). …
- … In his letter of 7 January [1864] , Scott once more asked CD to look over the manuscript …
- … Scott 1864a ) (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 3). Scott had …
- … see enclosure 1 to the letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 5). CD planned to …
- … Society ( Botany ) (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 2). The secretary …
- … See letter to John Scott, 8 January [1864] . In December 1863, William Brinton , a …
From Daniel Oliver [1 April 1864]
Summary
References to and résumés of articles on climbing plants.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4443 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Scott, 28 March 1864 (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 31 March [1864] and n. 5). …
- … Marginalia 1: 662–3). In his letter of 31 March [1864] , CD thanked Oliver for a reference …
- … this letter and the letter to Daniel Oliver, 31 March [1864] , and by the reference to …
- … J. D. Hooker, [ 2 April 1864] . Oliver refers to the postscript to the letter from John …
- … n. 3, and this volume, letter to Daniel Oliver, 15 June [1864] . See Léon 1858 , p. 352, …
- … the Isle of Wight (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] and n. 9). An annotated …
From E. A. Darwin 30 June [1864]
Summary
Henry Holland thought CD would be interested to know that Buxton’s brewery cannot go on with their own yeast, but are obliged to interchange with other breweries.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4548 |
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Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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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…
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Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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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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Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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'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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Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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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…
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Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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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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Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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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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Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
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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 in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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