To Asa Gray 11 August [1858]
Summary
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2321 |
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- … America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 …
- … till it became what it now is; & then the temperate parts of Europe & America would be …
- … considerably distressed , that several temperate forms slowly travelled into the heart of …
- … As the temperature rose, all the temperate intruders would crawl up the mountains. Hence …
- … identical but representative forms of N. temperate plants. — There are similar classes of …
To Charles Lyell 26 April [1858]
Summary
Comments on letter from Georg Hartung to CL dealing with erratic boulders.
Discusses migration of plants and animals.
A letter from Thomas Thomson on heat endured by temperate plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.151) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2262 |
To J. D. Hooker [14 November 1858]
Summary
An enclosure sent with the letter to JDH, 14 November [1858] (Correspondence vol. 7) - questions and comments on lists of European species found in south-west Australia and Tasmania, and European genera found in Australia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [14 Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: E55–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2361F |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1858
Summary
Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.
Still regards plant types as older than animal types.
The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 128–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2382 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 July [1858]
Summary
Correcting proof for CD–Wallace paper. Has begun abstract.
Large and small genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2311 |
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- … Bentham 1858 . George Bentham was an expert on temperate and tropical plants and had not …
From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858]
Summary
At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: E1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2367 |
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- … should think that the percentage of N. temperate American plants in Fuegia &c is greater …
From Willem Hendrik de Vriese to J. D. Hooker 21 September 1858
Summary
Answers CD’s query about distribution of European perennials in the highlands of Java.
| Author: | Willem Hendrik de Vriese |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2327 |
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- … is at 2400 ’ . Many plants of more temperate climates are cultivated there, especially …
From J. D. Hooker 12 November 1858
Summary
Busy with introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III] Flora Tasmaniae [printed separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)].
Now explains greater abundance of European species in Tasmania than in Fuegia by CD’s "refrigeration" hypothesis.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 123–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2358 |
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- … in Hooker 1859 . CD proposed that temperate plants had invaded tropical zones during a …
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
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- … absolutely confined to the Tropics or to temperate regions or to districts & do not stand …
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Vriese, W. H. de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Vriese, W. H. de | (1) |
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.
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- … on the mountains of Abyssinia, and likewise to those of temperate Europe. This is one of the most …
- … than at present in various parts of the tropics, where temperate forms apparently have crossed; but …
- … So again, on the island of Fernando Po, Mr. Mann found temperate European forms first beginning to …
- … of the torrid zone harmoniously blended with those of the temperate. So that under certain …
- … have co-existed for an indefinitely long period mingled with temperate forms. At one time …
- … cannot look to the peninsula of India for such a refuge, as temperate forms have reached nearly all …
- … of Java we see European forms, and on the heights of Borneo temperate Australian productions. If we …
- … continent to its southern extremity; but we now know that temperate forms have likewise travelled …
- … are on the mountains of Brazil a few southern and northern temperate and some Andean forms, which it …
- … number of forms in Australia, which are related to European temperate forms, but which differ so …
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … Moncur, who also worked on the north and south blocks of the Temperate House at Kew. The Palm House …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
Summary
On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … lumbago– fundament–rash. Always been temperate– now wine comforts me much– could …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … would migrate towards the equator during an ice age and that temperate species would survive at …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
Summary
For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … of similar species in both the northern and southern temperate zones. In the first edition of …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … observed distributions, such as the presence of the same temperate species on distant mountains, and …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … Settlement – a thoroughly convict colony – a healthy temperate climate – far removed from civilized …
