To William Robinson [29 April 1866]
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Is sorry to have missed seeing WR.
Mentions some crossing experiments with Nymphaea and Euryale in which he would be interested, if WR ever had the chance to make them [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 365].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Robinson |
| Date: | [29 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (WRO/2/25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5072 |
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4.29 Richard Grant White, 'Fall of man'
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< Back to Introduction At about the same time as The Hornet pictured Darwin as ‘A Venerable Orang-Outang’, a novella by the American journalist and critic Richard Grant White offered a more scurrilous take on The Descent of Man. The Fall of Man: Or,…
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- … < Back to Introduction At about the same time as The Hornet pictured Darwin as ‘A …
Moral Nature
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In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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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…
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- … inaugurated a new era in the science’ (A. Gray 1862b, p. 429). Oliver joined in the chorus, telling …
