From Asa Gray 29 July 1875
Summary
Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10099 |
From R. F. Cooke 29 July 1875
Summary
Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 459 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10100 |
From Anton Dohrn 29 July 1875
Summary
Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10101 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 29 July 1875
Summary
Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.
Asks permission to translate Expression.
The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.
| Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10102 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 July 1875]
Summary
JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 July 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 1d |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10103 |
| letter | (5) |
| Canestrini, Giovanni | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Canestrini, Giovanni | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
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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- … he is curious about Hooker’s thoughts. Letter 729 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [11 …
'Like confessing a murder' audio play
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This speciallycommissioned BBC Radio drama is based entirely on Charles and Emma Darwin’s own words and correspondence. Behind the controversial public persona, Darwin was an affectionate family man, fully engaged – sometimes heartbreakingly so – in the…
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- … This specially commissioned BBC Radio drama is based entirely on Charles and Emma Darwin’s own …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
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- … No single set of letters was more important to Darwin than those exchanged with his closest friend …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his …
