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Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … ). He received a specimen of Nitella opaca , a species of freshwater green algae, and applied …
- … believed to be a progressive form of eugenics, with improved conditions for women allowing them to …
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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- … In a far-fetched sense, however, the conditions of life may be said, not only to cause variability, …
- … natural selection; for it depends on the nature of the conditions whether this or that variety shall …
- … these two elements of change are essentially distinct; the conditions under domestication causing …
- … blended with those of the temperate. So that under certain conditions of climate it is certainly …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … doubt about the validity of experiments conducted under such conditions, and even asserted that he …
- … of snake poison to the cellular tissue of frogs, newts, and freshwater mussels, as well as to …
- … meaning.’ Darwin remained committed to the importance of conditions of existence, and the effects of …
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…
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- … Samuel Stehman. 1843–4. Enumeration of the recent freshwater Mollusca which are common to North …
- … Henfrey, Arthur. 1852. The vegetation of Europe, its conditions and causes. London. *128: …
