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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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- … unrelated to movement — the nature and function of bloom, the waxy or powdery coating often found on …
- … only though correspondence because Darwin never published on bloom. In August 1873, while on holiday …
- … experiments ’. Darwin was clearly intrigued by bloom, but his main preoccupation in the …
- … in plants , p. 370. Given that the function of bloom appeared to be protective, Darwin began …
- … confessing to Thiselton-Dyer that deferring his work on bloom until the following summer ‘ goes to …
- … three years before Darwin would resume work on movement and bloom. ‘Very …
- … ‘ I have been looking over my old notes about the ‘bloom’ on plants, & I think that the subject …
- … to Thiselton-Dyer, ‘ Frank & I are working very hard on bloom & sleep &c.; but I am …
- … if any fruit. … I think Frank will do some good work on bloom & evaporation, & this is to …
- … measuring the amount and time of movement in this species. Bloom was not neglected. Darwin told …
- … Henrietta, ‘ Frank & I have been working very hard at bloom & the automatic movement of …
- … lost no time in quizzing Sachs about plant movement and bloom, reporting back Sachs’s assessment of …
- … it is placed in This Sachs says is not true. … Also in bloom being protection against dryness. He …
- … thinking in terms of adaptation while further researching bloom. Sachs thought that the Darwins had …
- … the water off altogether. Or perhaps those leaves produced bloom whose stomata did not shut well in …
- … leaves as part of his experiments on the function of bloom. By December 1878, Darwin was …
- … research, and when Thiselton-Dyer sent information about bloom, Darwin informed him that ‘ this …
- … indication that Darwin would decide to omit the subject of bloom from his book. In mid-June …
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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- … turned to the mysterious role of the waxy coating (or ‘bloom’) on leaves and fruit, and to the …
- … gathering observations made by others. With the exception of bloom, each of these projects would …
- … year. He assisted his father’s research on movement and bloom, and Darwin in turn encouraged his son …
- … provided further observations on this, as well as on bloom. He most pleased his father, however, by …
- … second printing would be ordered the following year. Bloom and movement Soon after …
- … purpose was little understood. Darwin had begun studying bloom in August 1873, but had broken off to …
- … out clearly that with some plants (chiefly succulent) the bloom checks evaporation.— with some …
- … experiments in his article ‘On the relation between “bloom” on leaves and the distribution of the …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
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Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
1877 letters now online
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Flowers, bloom, a son married . . . and a suspended monkey in Cambridge at Darwin's honorary LLD ceremony. The transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin's life in 1877…
1.15 Albert Goodwin, watercolour
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< Back to Introduction In 1880 the watercolourist Albert Goodwin was apparently invited to Down to produce that rare thing – a portrait of Darwin with members of his family. As Henrietta Litchfield, Darwin’s daughter, explained when she reproduced it…
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- … watercolour is an idyll, with its beds of flowers in bloom, the sunny sky and flocks of birds. …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … for worse. I can’t help grudging that all the bloom has been rubbed off. If he had walked in …
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 Catasetum. Could you lend me a plant in bud & bloom of Catasetum?’ Listera ovata …
