From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 218–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6254 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 [April] 1868
Summary
If CD is not convinced by his notes on sterility, ARW has little doubt that he is wrong. In fact he was only half-convinced by his own arguments.
Modifies his first proposition [a species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to free inter-crossing the variations never increase] and further discusses the subject.
Encloses Berthold Seemann’s notes on flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Presence of European alpine species in Hawaiian volcanoes is a "hard nut" for geographical distribution [but see ARW’s Island life (1880), p. 323].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 [Apr] 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B57-8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6104 |
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- … Birds & Insects and they are within the tropics. Will not that be a hard nut for you when …
From A. B. Meyer 15 September 1868
Summary
Sends essay by Karl Bettelheim.
Describes preparations for scientific journey.
| Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6366 |
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- … preliminary studies on the topic, to visit the tropics for some years, and indeed he will …
| letter | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Meyer, A. B. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Meyer, A. B. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … field naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. …
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…
Movement in Plants
Summary
The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … begun to produce aerial roots. Darwin had hoped to study the tropic movements of such roots, but …
