To Edward Frankland 12 July 1873
Summary
Seeks the assistance of a professional chemist in securing a qualitative analysis of the fluid secreted by the glands of Drosera which have the power of dissolving animal matter out of the bodies of insects. [See 8979.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 12 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8977A |
From A. W. Bennett 12 July 1873
Summary
Believes some flowers fail to produce seed because of the access of too great a quantity of pollen. Asks for CD’s opinion and references.
| Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8976 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 19 November [1873]
Summary
Sends the very little globulin and haemoglobin he has to be tested with artificial gastric juice. He could get more from Samuel William Moore. Perhaps T. L. Brunton knows about the digestion of chlorophyll by animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1873] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9155 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter from A. W. von Hofmann, 27 June 1862, and Insectivorous …
- … letter from S. W. Moore, [1 October 1873] and n. 2), including globulin from the lens of the eye and mucin (see Insectivorous plants , pp. 120 and 122). Thomas Lauder Brunton’s experiments with chlorophyll and gelatine are cited in Insectivorous plants , pp. 111 and 126. In 1862, …
To T. L. Brunton 3 December 1873
Summary
Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9168 |
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- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter from A. W. von Hofmann, 27 June 1862). CD described his …
- … letter from T. L. Brunton, 2 December 1873 and n. 1. Albumen is the clear part of an egg (egg white), and contains albumins and other proteins. John Scott Burdon Sanderson was assisting CD with his experiments on insectivorous plants. Both gelatine and chondrin are hydrolysed forms of collagen (found in cartilage, bone, skin, etc. ). CD refers to August Wilhelm von Hofmann and Samuel William Moore (C. Moore was evidently written in error). In 1862, …
From Robert Swinhoe 26 March 1873
Summary
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 336 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8824 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 September [1873]
Summary
Very pleased at JSBS’s discovery ["On the electrical phenomena which accompany the contractions of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Rep. BAAS 43 (1873): 133].
Asks for pure animal substances [proteins] for Drosera experiments. His other sources have been T. L. Brunton, Edward Frankland, W. A. Miller (now dead), and Hoffmann of Berlin [A. W. von Hofmann?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9056 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter from A. W. von Hofmann, 27 June 1862, and Insectivorous …
- … letter from Edward Frankland, 17 July 1873 ). August Wilhelm von Hofmann , his predecessor at the Royal College of Chemistry, was professor of chemistry at Berlin. William Allen Miller had died in 1870 ( ODNB ). In 1862, …
To Mary Treat 1 January 1873
Summary
Asks for certain observations to be made on Drosera and Dionaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | Amy Nagashima (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8719 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 4 March 1873
Summary
Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.
Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8797 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1873
Summary
Drosophyllum is coming from Dublin. Will ship it to Down when it arrives.
The awful honour of Presidency of Royal Society; his aversion to dignities and honours.
R. Strachey [Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1873): 450] has paid him and CD a compliment.
Letter from Gladstone.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 146–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8732 |
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen [before 18 January 1873]
Summary
Translation of some of his annotations in Dutch edition of Expression.
| Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 28 Jan 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 53.1: B44–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8712 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 28 January [1873] ( Correspondence vol. 30, Supplement). Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen translated Expression into Dutch (Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen trans. 1873). Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen refers to the view that the involuntary arrectores pili (hair-erecting) muscles had originally been voluntary ( Expression , pp. 102–3). Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen refers to Pieter Harting and Harting 1862– …
From Anton Dohrn 7 June 1873
Summary
News of Naples Zoological Station developments.
His remarks on physiology in the Academy were aimed at Prof. Ludwig and his school.
The usual "exact" methods in experimental physiology want only a little pushing to put an end to superstition.
Recounts how he had worked out the explanation of Rhizocephala morphology via the Anelasma – an example of both the power of inheritance and the power of genealogical investigation. R. Kossman’s work has now confirmed AD’s explanation.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8937 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1862 , pp. 1, 4–5). CD, after reading Müller’s description in F. Müller 1864 , had suggested that the pedunculate barnacle Anelasma squalicola might be a ‘beautiful connecting link’ with the Rhizocephala (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
- … letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] and nn. 9 and 10). Müller had, in fact, already described adult Rhizocephala as probably lacking mouths and attached to their hosts by having their heads sunk into the host animals with chitinous rings at the attachment sites and root-like processes branching out within the hosts for the assimilation of nutrients ( F. Müller 1862 , …
From W. W. Keen 26 September 1873
Summary
Sends corrections of Descent and Expression.
| Author: | William Williams Keen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 24–5, DAR 169: 2, and Expression 2d ed., p. 169 n. 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9072 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
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| Davis, Mary | (1) |
| Frankland, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Davis, Mary | (1) |
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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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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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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- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a second …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
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 …
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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- … Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, …
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
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…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
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…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Floral studies In 1877 …
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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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation 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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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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 | Discussion Questions | Experiment A project to follow On the Origin …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
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…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
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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- … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
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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- … Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species , published in 1877, …
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…
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- … Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten …
