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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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  • … shape. He concluded by exclaiming, ‘I have now examined Primroses & find exactly same difference …
  • … of cowslips only as a result of cross-fertilisation with primroses. As Darwin was finishing …
  • … unexpected results from crosses with differently coloured primroses, some of which had ‘ not …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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  • … the orchid study in 1862. Back to the origin of sex: primroses and cowslips Another …

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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  • … Nature with some observations of her canary which eats primroses. She keeps a canary in her house …
  • … [3 May 1860] Doubleday describes his experiments on Primroses, Oxlips and Cowslips. He has …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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  • … a letter to  Nature,  observing that the flowers of primroses were being destroyed by birds in his …
  • … correspondents in England and abroad to observe whether the primroses there suffered, and to state …
  • … captivity for years and had little experience of cowslips or primroses, and Frankland added, ‘The …

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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  • … [3 May 1860] Doubleday describes his experiments on Primroses, Oxlips and Cowslips. He has …

2.12 Allan Wyon, Royal Society medal

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< Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial basis from 1890 onwards, as a way of recognising individual achievement in the scientific fields to which Darwin himself had contributed. The first scientist to be…

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  • … instances of carnivorous adaptation that interested him; and primroses showed remarkable sexual …

Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

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  • … readily agreed to publish the book. Convinced that orchids, primroses, and, another subject of his …
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