To Fritz Müller 13 November 1881
Summary
Is experimenting with effect of ammonium carbonate on chlorophyll and roots, but finds the results confusing.
Julius von Wiesner has published a book reinterpreting CD’s observations in Movement in plants [see 13422].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13481 |
From J. C. Clutterbuck 13 November 1881
Summary
Describes earthworms moving to the surface to escape moles.
| Author: | James Charles Clutterbuck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13482 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Clutterbuck, J. C. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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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…
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … the enthusiastic breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous zeal …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … Station of Naples’, Nature 12 (6 May 1875), pp. 11–13. Dohrn, ‘The Zoological Station at Naples’ …
