From Adolf Ernst 29 February 1880
Summary
Plants in Venezuelan plains.
Observations on Turnera: heterostyly, leaf-base glands’ secretion eaten by ants.
Observations on role of leaf secretions in fertilisation of Marcgravia and Passiflora.
| Author: | Adolf Ernst |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12504 |
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| Ernst, Adolf | (1) |
Santa Fé, Argentina
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Inland trips
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- … Writes of his journey from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca, and his illness on an expedition to Santa Fé …
George James Stebbing
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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
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- … Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 116: 22–9 and 117: 29–40. ‘The Portsmouth …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … occurs in Origin 4th ed., p. 208. 22. p. 229. A similar substitution occurs in Origin …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … of this topic in the 1844 essay ( Foundations , p. 229). ^2^ CD and other contemporary …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
