To G. H. Darwin 8 January [1876]
Summary
Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10348 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 8 January 1876]
Summary
Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Jan 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 144–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10349 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
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
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … Conside. sur les Cereales (Bouchard Huzard) 108 pages (read) Partie practicale. et exp. pages 248. 8 …
- … sea-side Book [Lewes 1858]. G. Tollet says very amusing 108 The Dog in health & …
- … Naudin on Nat. Selection [Naudin 1852] (read)—refers p. 108 to Vilmorin [Vilmorin 1852] grand …
- … CD marked this entry “[SYMBOL]” in pencil. 108 CD marked this entry with ‘O’ in …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … in arranging groups (S. Smith 1965; Ospovat 1981, p. 108). Darwin’s frequent discussions with Owen …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 1 may 1902 Utrecht 108 Jurriaanse J.A. (Jurriaan Anthony …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. …
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- … 108 Jurriaanse J.A. (Jurriaan Anthony) Architectural …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … 1865, and 8 June 1865 (Imperial College, Huxley papers 6: 108, 111). 30. Letter from John …
