To Asa Gray 2 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897 |
Matches: 45 hits
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] ). The construction was undertaken in 1863, …
- … by the relationship of this letter to the letters from Asa Gray , 24 November 1862 and …
- … 9 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). …
- … CD reported feeling unwell in late December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from …
- … J. D. Hooker, [21 December 1862] , and letter to W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 27 [December 1862] ). In a …
- … to William Erasmus Darwin of [13 December 1862] (DAR 219.1: 69), Emma Darwin commented: ‘ …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] EB : The …
- … Gnetaceæ. [Read 16 January and 18 December 1862. ] ]Transactions of the Linnean Society …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Planchon, Jules Emile. 1847–8. Sur la …
- … very uncomf—’. See Correspondence vol. 10, letters from Asa Gray , 24 November 1862 and …
- … 9 December 1862 . Gray had sent CD a box containing specimens of Mitchella and Cypripedium …
- … Africa (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 9 December 1862 , and letter to …
- … James Anderson, 23 December [1862] ). In his letter of 11 October 1861 ( Correspondence …
- … the plant with his letter of 15 July [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD’s experimental …
- … vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). Cooper referred to Mitchella as the ‘ …
- … 274–5. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 17 November 1862 , letter to Asa …
- … Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] , and CD’s experimental note dated 19 April [1863] in DAR 70: …
- … and published in the same journal in 1862. Jules Emile Planchon described the different …
- … experimenting with the plant since March 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa …
- … vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] ). His results are given in Forms of …
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to G. H. K. Thwaites, 15 June [1862] and …
- … 29 December [1862] ). See also Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, [27 and 29 …
- … IV). Letter from J. D. Dana, 4 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). In 1859, James …
- … At CD’s request, Gray had, since the summer of 1862, sent United States postage stamps for …
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , and letter from Asa …
- … Gray, 2–3 July 1862 ). …
- … Gray’s letter of 24 November 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10) had been sent using a ‘ …
- … beginning work on this chapter in October 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II), …
- … cultivated (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 23 November [1862] and 26[– …
- … 7] November [1862] ). Gray replied to CD’s …
- … section of his letter of 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), which CD received …
- … of Horticulture , [before 25 November 1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), and the annotated …
- … articles on strawberries in CD’s issues of the Gardeners’ Chronicle (8 November 1862, p. …
- … 1053, and 22 November 1862, p. 1101), which are in the Cory Library, Cambridge Botanic …
- … dealing with ‘bud-variation’ on 21 December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 ). He read his account of this unusual plant …
- … meetings on 16 January and 18 December 1862 ( J. D. Hooker 1862d ). See Correspondence …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 December 1862] . On 17 January 1863, Hooker travelled to …
- … of Fredericksburg, fought on 13 December 1862; the Union army suffered one of its worst …
- … Boott (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 ). However, …
- … in his letter of 26 December 1862 ( ibid. ), Boott asked that CD stop sending them since …
- … in affected areas; between June and December 1862, the Cotton Districts Relief Fund had …
- … cotton workers, making contributions on 14 July, 19 September, and 23 November 1862. …
- … At the end of 1862, CD planned to build a hothouse in the garden at Down House (see …
To Asa Gray 19 January [1863]
Summary
Comments on his own review of Bates’s butterfly paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thanks AG for information on Platanthera.
Has been wasting more time with Melastomataceae; can find no nectar in Monochaetum; is there any in Rhexia?
Hopes Lincoln’s "fiat against Slavery" will have some effect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3927 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … of this letter to the letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). …
- … Letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). See …
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 , and letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 6 November 1862 . Gray’s reference to glucose and starch has not been found, but …
- … See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 10 November 1862 , and letter to Asa …
- … Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] . Sprengel 1793 . …
- … CD refers to the letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). …
- … in species of Linum ’ , in December 1862. The paper was to be read before the Linnean …
- … vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 4 August 1862 and n. 3. See letter from H. W. Bates, …
- … observations for CD in the past, but in July 1862 he enlisted in the 131st Pennsylvania …
- … DAB ; see Correspondence vol. 10, letters from Asa Gray , 5 September 1862 and …
- … 22 September 1862 ). …
- … In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln announced his emancipation proclamation, in which he …
- … States government in 1861, and, in February 1862, the Legal Tender Act was passed. By the …
To Asa Gray 20 March [1863]
Summary
Discusses the meaning of C. K. Sprengel’s term "dichogamy". Dichogamous plants are functionally monoecious; Primula is functionally dioecious.
Reports Hermann Crüger’s observations of Cattleya and of bees pollinating Catasetum. Crüger will observe Melastomataceae.
Has built a hothouse.
Fears Amsinckia cannot be dimorphic.
Ill health slows his work on Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4053 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … read them (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 [December 1862] ). …
- … Leonard’s collection since the summer of 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). The reference …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
- … 1861 , and Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 10–20 June [1862] and 26[– …
- … 7] November [1862] , and letters from Asa …
- … Gray , 18–19 August 1862 and …
- … 29 December 1862 ). Gray evidently discussed Bates 1861 in a letter to CD written on 9 …
- … vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 . The reference is to Sprengel 1793 , in …
- … In his letter to Gray of 26[–7] November [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD objected to …
- … dioeciousness. In his reply of 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), Gray drew on …
- … vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] , and this volume, letter to Asa Gray, 2 …
- … dimorphic plant Mitchella repens in December 1862, for use in crossing experiments (see …
- … vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 9 December 1862 , and this volume, letter to Asa Gray, 2 …
- … Horace Darwin had been ill for much of 1862 (see letter from G. V. Reed, 12 January …
To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … Murray. [Campbell, George Douglas. ] 1862. [Review of Orchids and other works. ] Edinburgh …
- … 378–97. Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1862. Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera. …
- … by George Douglas Campbell , duke of Argyll, published in the October 1862 number of the …
- … Edinburgh Review ( [Campbell] 1862 ). CD refers to …
- … article in the Saturday Review , 15 November 1862, pp. 589–90, that critically examined …
- … vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 10–20 June [1862] and this volume, letter to Asa Gray, 2 …
- … Pa. : Taylor & Francis. Devay, Francis. 1862. Du danger des mariages consanguins sous le …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Forms of …
- … s University Press. Loring, Charles Greely. 1862. Correspondence on the present relations …
- … outbreak of the American Civil War ( Loring 1862 ). In his letter to Gray of 23 February [ …
- … 95; Collected papers 2: 62). Since March 1862, he had been observing live specimens (see …
- … case was one of mere variability’. Devay 1862 , p. 141. There is a lightly annotated copy …
- … Owen’s anonymous review of Carpenter 1862 appeared in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp. …
- … vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 22 September 1862 and n. 13). He published comments on …
From Asa Gray 22–30 March 1863
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s article on the supernatural [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Has heard that the Incas married their sisters; this may be worth investigating as a case of inbreeding.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22–30 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4056 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … on the supernatural [ Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97]. Has heard that the Incas married …
- … 1860–2): 495–566. [Campbell, George Douglas. ] 1862. [Review of Orchids and other works. ] …
- … In October 1862, George Douglas Campbell , eighth duke of Argyll, published an anonymous …
- … with five books on miracles and the supernatural ( [Campbell] 1862 ). CD told Gray …
- … of the review in his letter of 23 November [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), saying that …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
- … of a divine designer. In [Campbell] 1862 , p. 388, Campbell stated that the ‘various …
- … as ‘contrivance’ and ‘purpose’ ( [Campbell] 1862 , pp. 292–3), Campbell commented: ‘It is …
- … nose’ for ‘proboscis’ (see [Campbell] 1862 , pp. 394–5, and Orchids , pp. 179–203). The …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] . CD did not refer to Prescott’s observation in …
To Asa Gray 23 February [1863]
Summary
Recommends Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Quotes praise of AG’s pamphlet [see 2938].
Comments on U. S. politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4006 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … Oldhams Press. Cairnes, John Elliot. 1862. The slave power: its character, career, & …
- … New England with his letter of 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD refers to …
- … Vols. 9,10,11] Loring, Charles Greely. 1862. Correspondence on the present relations …
- … slave trade in Anglo-American relations 1814–1862. Ser. 51, no. 2, of The Johns Hopkins …
- … vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] . In a review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man in …
- … 454–70). See Correspondence vol. 10, letters from Asa Gray , 4 and 13 October 1862 and …
- … 24 November 1862 , and letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] . CD refers to the published correspondence between the …
- … of the American Civil War ( Loring 1862 ). Loring was Gray’s father-in-law ( Dupree 1959 , …
- … finally ratified in Washington in April 1862 (see Soulsby 1933 ). In November 1861, the …
- … demands put an end to the affair in January 1862. For an account of the Trent affair, see …
- … the University of Dublin in 1861 ( Cairnes 1862 , p. vii). The book, which defended the …
- … vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] ). The journalist and reform campaigner, …
From Asa Gray 26 May 1863
Summary
Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].
Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.
Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4186 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Bibliography Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1862. Introduction to the study of the …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
- … Richard Owen’s anonymous review of Carpenter 1862 in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp. …
- … to Owen’s anonymous review of Carpenter 1862 (see n. 3, above). The references are to …
- … that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and 1863; the articles, which continued into …
- … species of the orchid genus Cypripedium in December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 10, letter from Asa Gray, 9 December 1862 ). There are notes on C. acaule ‘sent by Asa …
- … 428). See also Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 10–20 June [1862] and n. …
- … 16, and 26[–7] November [1862] . In the letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] , CD informed …
- … green wood orchid) on several occasions in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10), and Gray …
To Asa Gray 31 May [1863]
Summary
AG’s review of Alphonse de Candolle’s paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 430–44] is excellent.
Does not AG consider that orchids oppose Oswald Heer’s view that species arise suddenly by monstrosities?
Infers that AG cannot explain the angles of phyllotaxy; has been looking at Carl Nägeli on the subject.
Reports Gaston de Saporta’s belief that natural selection will ultimately triumph in France.
Is working slowly at Variation.
Reports his observations on the imperfect flowers of Viola and Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 31 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (84) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4196 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de. 1862. Notice sur les plantes fossiles de Coumi et …
- … atlas. By Albert Gaudry. Paris: F. Savy. 1862–7. ] Tort, Patrick. 1996. Dictionnaire du …
- … CD received the plants at the end of December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 10, letter from Asa Gray, 9 December 1862 , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 29 [December 1862] ). For CD’s research on the genus Cypripedium , including …
- … 11 October 1861 , and Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 9 August [1862] and …
- … 6 November [1862] ). The reference is to Scudder 1862c , which discussed the structure and …
- … flowers of Oxalis and Viola since 1862; he summarised his provisional conclusions on their …
- … in the letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). There is a …
From Asa Gray 27 January 1863
Summary
Discusses the ill-will between England and U. S.
Considers the bases for deciding which plant species are "high" and which "low".
Comments on Alphonse de Candolle’s paper on oaks ["Étude sur l’espèce", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 59–110].
Encloses S. H. Scudder’s letter on Lepidoptera and fertilisation of orchids which identifies a butterfly with Platanthera pollinia adhering to it. Jokingly applies natural selection to butterflies acted on by orchid pollinia.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 129, 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3950 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … refers to his letter to CD of 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). Gray enclosed …
- … Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot. ) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 59–110]. Encloses S. H. Scudder’s letter on …
- … vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ). CD discussed movements of the pollinia …
- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. 1889. The butterflies …
- … butterfly with orchid pollinia attached, on 29 December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 10, letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ). Scudder published his description of …
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 July 1863 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Stewart. Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1862. Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera. …
- … 16: 5–98. [Vols. 10,11] Wyman, Jeffries. 1862. Experiments on the formation of Infusoria …
- … Richard Owen’s anonymous review of Carpenter 1862 in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp. …
- … Gray’s colleague at Harvard University, who in 1862 began a series of experiments which …
- … those of Louis Pasteur , although with different results ( Wyman 1862 ; see DSB ). Bentham …
- … that Pasteur’s results ( Pasteur 1861 and 1862) seemed to refute completely ‘the idea of …
- … for his work on spontaneous generation in 1862 (see Farley 1977 ). Wyman subsequently …
To Asa Gray 11 May [1863]
Summary
CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.
Is confused over phyllotaxy.
Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Horace Darwin had been unwell since January 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). Horace is …
- … 10, letter to Asa Gray, [3–]4 September [1862] ). CD refers to Gray’s observations on the …
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] , and letter from …
- … Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ), and made a series of observational notes on ‘dichogamy’ (the …
From Asa Gray 11 April 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4081 |
From Asa Gray 7 July 1863
Summary
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 127, 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4234 |
From Asa Gray 21 July 1863
Summary
Gives some observations on Drosera.
Comments on Richard Owen’s "transmutation theory" in his aye-aye paper [Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 5 (1866): 33–101].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 128, 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4248 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1863 and n. 10. The reference is to Wyman 1862 (see Bentham 1863 , pp. xxv–xxvii). See …
- … emancipation proclamation of 22 September 1862, which announced that from 1 January 1863 …
- … London: Benjamin Motte. Wyman, Jeffries. 1862. Experiments on the formation of Infusoria …
- … dimorphic species Houstonia caerulea in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). The reference …
From Asa Gray 20 April 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4112 |
From Asa Gray 23 November 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4346 |
From Asa Gray 1 September 1863
Summary
Sees difficulties in adhering to the concept of design in nature.
Is surprised at Hooker’s and Daniel Oliver’s ignorance regarding spontaneous movements of tendrils.
CD should continue his work on climbing plants, "it will be fruitful in your hands".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 108; DAR 165: 139, 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4288 |
To Asa Gray 4 August [1863]
Summary
Anticipated AG’s attitude on design in orchids. Does he not think that the variations that gave rise to fancy pigeon varieties were accidental?
Has been working hard at Lythrum
and spontaneous movements of tendrils.
Defends Drosera as a "sagacious animal" but does not know whether he will ever publish on it.
Comments on political situation in U. S.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4262 |
To Asa Gray 26 June [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for references about phyllotaxy
and information on marriage laws.
Has been looking for dimorphism in Phlox and Euonymus.
Has observed the irritability of tendrils of Echinocystis with great interest. Was also struck by the rotating movements of the leading shoots, which he proposes to investigate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 26 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4222 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Forms of flowers , pp. 290–1. At the end of 1862, Gray sent CD specimens of the dimorphic …
letter | (19) |
Gray, Asa | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Gray, Asa | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
Matches: 28 hits
- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
- … be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
- … him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
- … Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
- … but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
- … but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
- … him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
- … is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
- … with his study of Primula and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
- … 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
- … in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
- … telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
- … great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
- … labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
- … of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
- … sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
- … case he determined to experiment on Linum in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
- … be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
- … Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
- … who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
- … pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he worried about the resulting …
- … the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his son, William, his …
- … every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I never before felt half so …
- … he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). But he did not have long to wait. ‘It is …
- … it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862). Orchids was published on 15 May, …
- … all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). a flank-movement on the …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
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.
Matches: 5 hits
- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a …
- … edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of the …
- … of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn some of these …
- … in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he mentioned that he was sending …
- … from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition incorporating …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 8 hits
- … in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
- … cause. Tension. THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
- … 1856 33 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34 JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
- … 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
- … 10 JUNE 1861 121 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
- … 7 JULY 1863 152 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, DECEMBER 1862 153 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 1861 163 C Darwin TO A Gray, 16 OCTOBER 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, …
- … a construction suitable for tropical plants. In 1861 and 1862, while preparing Orchids , he was …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, Darwin purchased for …
- … over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10) …
- … Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). 3. Asclepias curassavica. …
I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]
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Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.
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- … Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Clémence Auguste Royer
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Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
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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- … Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
- … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
- … 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
- … - Darwin to Wedgwood, K. E. S, M. S. & L. C., [4 August 1862] Darwin thanks his “angel …
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … 1 October [1861] To Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] To Charles Lyell, 14 October …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Orchids
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
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- … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles 1862. On the various contrivances by which …
- … 3421 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 30 January 1862 Darwin tells Hooker about a …
- … Letter 3662 —Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 23-4 July 1862 Darwin tells Asa Gray, a professor …
- … Darwin’s work with orchids and Chapter 1 of Darwin’s 1862 book On the various …
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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- … briefly mentioned in his Primula paper. In July 1862, Darwin explained to Gray, ‘ I have …
- … of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the …
- … to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun researching in 1862 after Hooker had supplied him with …
- … of Lythrum he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has …
- … of the crossing experiments immediately, but by October 1862, he admitted to Hooker, ‘ I am rather …
- … 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting in November 1862, telling him, ‘ Next year I shall …
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … on Verbascum. Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
- … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
- … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
- … vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … [1859] Letter to Charles Kingsley, 6 February [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Species and varieties
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
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- … the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …