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Climbing plants
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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
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- … in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his …
- … easy plant to raise in pot ’. Gray immediately sent seeds of the two plants he had himself used to …
- … these, especially upon the first, I made my observations of tendrils coiling to the touch ’. …
- … interrupted by his poor health. He did not lose his sense of humour, though, and told his best …
- … Charles Darwin”; for I cannot think what has come over me of late; I always suffered from the …
- … & do not find that it is known, I will perhaps write a letter to you for the chance of its …
- … of another ‘interruption’ to Variation were well and truly planted. ‘Wonderfully …
- … because Darwin had made a great number of observations and experiments before looking at any of the …
- … phenomenon of the spontaneous revolutions of the stems and tendrils of climbing plants had been long …
- … days later, Oliver apologised for the tone of his previous letter (‘more seemly if addressed to one …
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
- … a few odd entries, the record ends. Both notebooks consist of two different sections, headed ‘Books …
- … 1821] Decandolle on Geograph distrib:— in Dict: Sciences Nat. [A. P. de Candolle 1820] in …
- … r Horsfield [Horsfield 1824] Sillimans Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts ]. …
- … 1802–13]— facts about close species. Wilson’s American Ornithology [A. Wilson 1808–14] …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … according to Hooker has written on topography of N. American plants. [?Michaux 1803].— M r …
- … P. Alison 1847]. No 19. July. 1840 27 Annales des Sciences 1840. Octob & Jan. Papers …
- … one volume I tried unreadable Annales des Sciences [ Annales des Sciences Naturelles ]. …
- … Agricult. Journ [ Annals of Agriculture, and other useful arts ] Highland Agricult. Journal …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … History [Waterton 1838] d[itt]o Trans. of Royal Irish Academy [ Transactions of the …
- … Sonnets ] 66 Silliman’s Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts ] all from 1 to …
- … (& p. 397 to 452 Bought) 30 th Sillimans Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts …
- … of Philosoph. Soc. of Philadelphia [? Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of …
- … 1778. Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the president. London. [Other eds.] …
- … London. 1834–42. *128: 171 Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia …
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species , …
- … rather than as a theoretician or a synthetic thinker. One of these works, On the Movements and …
- … proof-sheets that I was forced to leave them very badly and often obscurely expressed. The paper …
- … "Note on the Coiling of Tendrils" . Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … Darwin believed this was a wise course of action. Letter 8545 - Asa Gray to Charles …
- … for how the stimulus travels in the plant. The rest of the letter is filled with news of Gray’s trip …
- … to thank him for sending a copy of his book Histoire des sciences . Darwin sends de Candolle a …
- … publish with his old papers on climbing plants. Letter 8656 - Asa Gray to Charles …
- … as described in the following excerpt from an 1863 letter he wrote to the English botanist J.D. …
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 …
- … that he was ‘unwell & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a …
- … Darwin did continue his botanical pursuits over the summer, and persevered with his work on …
- … from ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] …
- … ‘I declare I never in my life read anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] …
- … than Origin had (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). …
- … , a weekly review of science, literature, music, and the arts, the prominent anatomist Richard Owen …
- … vol. 10). He sent a copy to Asa Gray to review in an American journal, and also wrote a long …
- … his election as a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin (see …
- … [1863] ). Asa Gray reviewed Candolle’s memoir in the American Journal of Science and Arts (A. …
- … at the suffering of slaves’ (LL 3: 199). The American Civil War Darwin’s aversion to …
- … Hooker, who had long since ceased to discuss politics or the American Civil War in his …
2.1 Thomas Woolner bust
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< Back to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him that reflected an important transition in his status in the later 1860s. In the 1840s–1850s Darwin had been esteemed within scientific circles as one among…
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- … to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him …
- … after 1859 he was vilified as the subversive author of Origin of Species ; but by 1869 Darwin had …
- … Darwin’s close friend Joseph Hooker who raised the idea of an approach to Woolner in 1863, intending …
- … anxious to get Woolner down [to Down] to take a clay model of your bust, for myself, as you kindly …
- … This enterprise came to nothing – was Darwin wary of authorising the creation and circulation of an …
- … house. In another change of plan, after many false starts and delays, the work was finally …
- … contained many other portraits of forbears, family members and Darwin himself. It was the most …
- … in Leonard’s photograph, with its rumpled sofa cover and assorted chairs, does not suggest dynastic …
- … drapery. When the bust of Darwin was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1870, the Observer ’s …
- … feature about which Darwin was clearly self-conscious, as a letter to Charles Lyell of 1861 shows. …
- … In 1908, when Charles Finney Cox, President of the New York Academy of Sciences, sought guidance …
- … Botany Department, now the Department of Plant Sciences, c.1896, and it is now in the Herbarium …
- … location University Herbarium Library, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge …
- … copyright holder Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge originator of …
- … , 99:198 (Sept. 1856), pp. 452–491 (p. 477). Darwin’s letter to Lyell, 21 Aug. 1861: DCP-LETT-3235. …
- … Darwin to Darwin, 6 Feb. 1869: DCP-LETT-6604. ‘Royal Academy: Second Notice’, The Observer (8 …
- … Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
- … dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second …
- … admired in his youth: ‘I have always looked on him as one of the greatest men the world has ever …
- … be done by observation during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August …
- … Fox, to reminiscence about their university days together, and the long-abandoned pleasures of …
- … takes everything more quietly, as not signifying so much. And … one looks backwards much more than …
- … was an illusory hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] …
- … inferred that he was well from his silence on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
- … in such rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
- … that Mr Williams was ‘a cheat and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). …
- … of Corals and coral islands , by James Dwight Dana, an American zoologist, geologist, and leading …
- … review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie in the Academy (2 January 1875; see Appendix V, pp. …
- … with ( letter to F. J. Cohn, 12 October 1874 ). Darwin’s American correspondent Mary Treat sent …
- … April 1874 ). Asa Gray forwarded a letter from the American physicist and painter Ogden Rood …
- … ( letter from James Ross, September 1874 ). The American philosopher Chauncey Wright sent a …
- … letter from Chauncey Wright, 3 September 1874 ). The American lawyer Samuel Whitaker …
- … his studies at Cambridge from mathematics to natural sciences. He stayed on after graduating to work …
- … quarters. He was elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( …
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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- … – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray …
- … respect Craig Baxter's right to be identified as the creator of this dramatisation, and that of …
- … A Friend of John Stuart Mill, Emma Darwin, Horace Darwin… and acts as a sort of stage manager; scene …
- … Galapagos organisms etc etc. And with thecharacter of the American fossil mammifers etcetc. That I …
- … his University) and is much less his own man. A letter from England catches his attention …
- … 11 My dear Hooker… What a remarkably nice and kind letter Dr A. Gray has sent me in answer to my …
- … be of any the least use to you? If so I would copy it… His letter does strike me as most uncommonly …
- … on the geographical distribution of the US plants; and if my letter caused you to do this some year …
- … a brace of letters 25 I send enclosed [a letter for you from Asa Gray], received …
- … of it. He says it is – Louis Agassiz is a Swiss-American zoologist, close in age to Darwin …
- … WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American Civil War is announced and Gray …
- … of the highest importance. 141 The present American row has a very toryfying influence on us …
- … GRAY: 142 I never thought anything of American institutions for England. Aristocracy is a …
- … Did you ever hear the like? 152 [He] sends me American newspapers, which I never read, and …
- … MARCH 1873 3 A GRAY. MEMOIR OF DARWIN AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, …
- … GRAY, REVIEW OF ORIGIN , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, MARCH 1860 79 A GRAY, …
- … REVIEW OF ‘ORIGIN’ IN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, MARCH, 1860 81 C DARWIN TO …
- … GRAY, REVIEW OF ORIGIN , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, MARCH 1860 93 A GRAY, …
- … 1860 96 A GRAY, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, SEPTEMBER 1860 97 C …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If any …
- … in satisfying female preference in the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, …
- … part in leading him to investigate aspects of the structure and behaviour of other animals more …
- … among breeders of domestic animals. His contacts, old and new, were often extremely generous, …
- … Information on crying infants, weeping elephants, and pouting chimpanzees flooded in from leading …
- … book would take the form of a ‘short essay’ on man ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 3 July 1868 ). But …
- … as well say, he would drink a little and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ) …
- … would be a great loss to the Book’. But Darwin’s angry letter to Murray crossed one from Dallas to …
- … of labour to remuneration I shall look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). …
- … if I try to read a few pages feel fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). …
- … reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from the Isle of Wight on the formation …
- … the name of “attachment” or “love”’, wrote the American entomologist Benjamin Dann Walsh on 25 …
- … March, ‘you force public attention to bear on the natural sciences and they can only gain from this. …
- … 3 April , ‘your works are destined to renew the natural sciences entirely.’ Gaston de Saporta …
- … second in the entrance examination for the Royal military academy at Woolwich. ‘I shall burst with …
- … on him, including the order of merit of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and Arts, which …
