To J. D. Hooker 24 [March 1867]
Summary
Returns Charles Naudin’s letter with its case in support of CD’s view of impregnation.
Twits JDH for trying to wriggle out of error made in his lecture and admires his "candour in letting the rat out of the bag". [See 5449 and 5451.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 [Mar 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5457A |
From J. D. Hooker 23 March 1867
Summary
More on Naudin’s hybrid; the wonder lessened slightly.
JDH’s view that insular plants [distantly] related to those of continents are common came to him only after the lecture was in print; has not yet thought it out fully.
Moroccan flora may throw some light on Madeira flora.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 151–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 143: 643) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5456 |
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- … other Feather-leaved. I see you “smell a rat”, in the matter of insular plants that are …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
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Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … of the sea fowl roost on branches ^of trees^ and that many rats make their nests at the top of high …
- … on to say that my friends may most readily believe that “rats make their nests on the top of coconut …
- … Specimens of each of these curiosities the man traps and the rats’ nests along with some Patagonian …
- … of which he is paid by the year. N.B. In saying that “Rats and mice swarm on these Islands” I really …
- … but if the reader has not supposed my meaning to be that “Rats and mice swarm on all the Islands …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
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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- … , ‘much depends on the actions of the female’, and of rats, John Bush observed on 30 March that …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
Summary
The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … in graphic detail how he was turning his attention to rats, and employing a surgical assistant to …
