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Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … forms in Primulaceæ or Linaceæ. But the three forms in Lythrum convince me that the phenomenon is in …
- … stark staring mad’ Darwin next moved on to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun …
- … was keen to further his research on purple loosestrife ( Lythrum salicaria ), a species of …
- … excitedly told Gray, ‘ I am almost stark staring mad over Lythrum; if I can prove what I fully …
- … I am rather disgusted to find I cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria: I must make 126 …
- … He revealed his ideas to Gray, ‘ the three forms in Lythrum convince me that the phenomenon is no …
- … not believe in my results’ In July 1863, when Lythrum was flowering, Darwin resumed his …
- … to Gray at the beginning of August, ‘I have worked Lythrum like a Trojan & have just finished …
- … three hermaphrodite. ’ Gray replied, ‘ If your Lythrum -paper shall be at all equal in interest …
- … ‘ The first job which I shall do is to draw up result of Lythrum crosses & on movements of …
- … before the summer break. ‘I have almost finished my Lythrum paper’, he told Hooker in late May, ‘ I …
- … paper, ‘On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’, was sent to the …
- … be unintelligible ’. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’, p. 171. After …
- … ‘ I have done nothing which has interested me so much as Lythrum since making out the Complemental …
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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- … enough for him to carry out tasks like counting seeds of Lythrum , crossing cowslips with …
- … Leersia . In May, Darwin finished his paper on Lythrum (‘Three forms of Lythrum …
- … and between species in his 1864 paper, ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’. In the two preceding …
- … mid-styled, and short-styled forms of the trimorphic Lythrum , and when his health permitted in …
- … was purchased was thus reduced. After the Lythrum paper was published, Darwin remarked to Hooker …
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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- … for the Linnean Society. And three sexual forms in Lythrum and Catasetum One …
- … produced another profitable subject for investigation— Lythrum , the purple loosestrife. By the …
- … 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over Lythrum’, and requested, ‘For the love of …
- … was not until 1864 that the Linnean Society heard about Lythrum ; in 1862, it was one of the …
- … 14 February [1862] ). Darwin told William of his work on Lythrum ,and, having ascertained that …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Becker thanks Darwin for sending copies of his paper on Lythrum and Climbing Plants …
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…
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
Lydia Becker
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Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the Women’s Suffrage Journal. She was also a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …
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- … condition in Primula ‘ and probably `Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ‘) . Whether …
Volume appendices
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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…
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- … Presentation list for ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ 12 IV …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … hermaphroditic species such as Primula , Linum , and Lythrum . ‘I will rank no plant as …
Climbing plants
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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
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- … , p. 71 Having finished a paper on ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’ in June, Darwin told …
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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- … “angel” nieces for their help with the enumeration of Lythrum . He asks whether they will be …
Movement in Plants
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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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- … the fertilisation of such plants as Primula and Lythrum , or again Anacamptis or …
Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … tells Gray about his recent botanic work. He has "worked Lythrum like a Trojan”. He has just …
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 promising to explain about his ‘so-called hybrids of Lythrum’ when they met. The last two …
