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Orchids

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Why Orchids? Darwin  wrote in his Autobiography, ‘During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross-fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, from having come to the conclusion in my…

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  • … in plants: I have just recently been looking at common Orchis, & I declare I think its …
  • … notice for Gardeners’ Ch. on curious difficulty in Bee Orchis, & shd. much like to hear what you …
  • … curious apparent contradiction in the structure of the Bee Orchis—one part, namely the sticky glands …
  • … anxious to hear what happens to the pollen-masses of the Bee Orchis in other districts or parts of …
  • … classification of the species in a different genus ( Orchis ) based on this observation. By now, …
  • … … observe what little change would convert Epipactis to Orchis: the temporary or non-congenital …
  • … movement in one direction which I find in all pollinia of Orchis, would explain the springing out of …
  • … Gray, describing in detail the movement of the pollinia in Orchis pyramidalis (a synonym of …

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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  • … botany. He has been closely observing the anatomy of the Orchis Pyramidalis and “never saw …

Darwin and Down

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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842.   The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow.  The village combined the…

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