To Smith, Elder, and Company 29 June [1843]
Summary
Requests information as to means of sending two pamphlets to a professor in the United States.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 29 June [1843] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-677A |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … No other work of mine was begun in so deductive a spirit as this; for the whole theory was …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … the fertility of the offspring (F. Müller 1868b, p. 629). Darwin urged further experimentation. ‘I …
1.18 John Collier, oil in Linnean
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< Back to Introduction By 1881 it was clear to Darwin’s intimates that he was increasingly frail, and that, as he approached death, he had finally escaped from religious controversy to become a heroic figure, loved and venerated for his achievements…
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- … supplement to The Guardian , no. 1900 (3 May 1882), p. 629, in DAR 140.5.101. Reviews of the …
