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To John Lubbock   6 November 1881

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Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.

Bonney is an "objector general".

CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  6 Nov 1881
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 49645: 104–5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13463

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  • … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Charles Lyell, 14 October [1862] ), but had remained …
  • letter to John Lubbock, [18 September 1881] and n. 3). Hicks’s new classification scheme had been mentioned in Robert Etheridge ’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London in April 1881 ( Etheridge 1881 , pp. 67–8). Lubbock referred to Hicks’s work and to Etheridge’s summary in the final version of his address (see Lubbock 1881a , p. 17). Thomas George Bonney . Andrew Crombie Ramsay had argued that many of the European and American lake-basins were originally formed by glacial excavation (see Ramsay 1862 ). …

From A. G. More   28 September 1881

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Writes, as a former correspondent, asking CD for a testimonial.

Author:  Alexander Goodman More
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 202: 113
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13361

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  • … several letters with More about orchids between 1860 and 1862 (see Correspondence vols. 8, …

From Frank Hurndall   10 September 1881

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Reports that a living frog was found in a lump of coal.

Author:  Watkin Frank (Frank) Hurndall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 201: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13328

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  • 1862 debate about the longevity of encased frogs with CD (see Correspondence vol. 24, Supplement, letter

To Wilhelm Breitenbach   20 [June] 1881

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Glad WB has arrived in Brazil. Suggests study of insects and study of fertilisation in Melastomataceae. Want of books is not a serious evil.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:  20 [June] 1881
Classmark:  DAR 143: 145
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13021

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  • … in 1861 and 1862 as possibly exhibiting a novel form of dimorphism (see letter to Fritz …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   3 April [1881]

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Thanks for Monochaetum flowers; his old notes have now become intelligible.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  3 Apr [1881]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 216)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13106

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  • … October 1862, are in DAR 108: 2–4. In a memorandum attached to this letter in the archive …
  • letter to William Thompson requesting seeds of Celsia cretica (a synonym of Verbascum creticum , Cretan mullein), and Thompson’s reply have not been found. In 1862, …

To Fritz Müller   20 March 1881

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FM’s view on meaning of two-coloured stamens in many flowers; CD has been looking through his old notes on dimorphism for supporting evidence. Intends to send extract of FM’s letter to Nature or to Linnean Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  20 Mar 1881
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 50)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13091

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  • … 3 February 1862 (DAR 205.8: 46). See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Hermann Crüger, 25 …
  • letter from Fritz Müller, 7 February 1881 . CD had begun crossing experiments on the Melastomaceae (a synonym of Melastomataceae) in October 1861, believing that plants of this family might exhibit a novel form of dimorphism. Although he continued to work on the family throughout 1862

To J. D. Hooker   15 June 1881

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CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 June 1881
Classmark:  DAR 95: 513–15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13207

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  • letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 June 1881 and n. 3. Genera plantarum ( Bentham and Hooker 1862– …
  • 1862–83. Genera plantarum. Ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus servata definita. 3 vols. in 7. London: A. Black [and others]. Gray, Jane Loring, ed. 1893. Letters
  • 1862 –83, 3 (2): 448). The Orchideae (a synonym of Orchidaceae, orchids) was a large section completed by Bentham in August 1880, after which he worked on the Cyperaceae (sedges), finished in October 1880; the Gramineae (a synonym of Poaceae, grasses) formed the last section, which Bentham finished in late 1881 ( Stearn 1956 , p. 130; Bentham 1881 ). See letter

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   1 April 1881

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Wants Monochaetum flowers for examination as he has forgotten the structure and cannot publish until he has repeated his observations and experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  1 Apr 1881
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 214–15)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13104

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  • letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 21 March [1881] . Pinguicula is the genus of butterworts. In 1862, …

From J. D. Hooker   27 October 1881

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On plants CD requested.

Frank should work on Dischidia.

Work on palms.

Overloaded with reading.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 104: 170–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13435

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  • letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 October 1881 and n. 8. Genera plantarum ( Bentham and Hooker 1862– …

From J. D. Hooker   12 June 1881

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Has struggled for months with complexity of structure and distribution of palms for Genera plantarum.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 June 1881
Classmark:  DAR 104: 150–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13201

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  • 1862–83 , 3 (pt 2): 870–948). Hyacinth Hooker had travelled to Italy in the spring of 1881 with Hooker and Asa and Jane Loring Gray (see letter

From J. D. Hooker   [23 October 1881]

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Pleasure in reading Earthworms.

Buying land to build a cottage.

Finishing palms for Genera plantarum after three years’ work.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23 Oct 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 164–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13424

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  • 1862 –83, 3 (part II): 870–948. Asa and Jane Loring Gray had been staying at Kew since their return from a visit to the Continent, part of which had been in company with the Hookers (see letter
  • letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 September 1881 ). Tusculum was a Roman city, known for having many patrician country villas; the site was a comfortable distance from Rome. Sunningdale in Berkshire is located on land that is the western part of a geological formation known as the Bagshot beds, a series of Eocene sands and clays. Hooker built his retirement home, ‘The Camp’, there. Genera plantarum ( Bentham and Hooker 1862– …
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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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  • … 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 …
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