To W. E. Darwin 29 [June 1863?]
Summary
Would like WED to send a specimen of the unusual plant organ of which he sent a drawing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 [June 1863?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3367 |
From J. D. Hooker [2]9 June 1863
Summary
JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.
CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].
JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".
[Dated 9 June by JDH.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2]9 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 147–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4224 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 29 June – 7 July 1863
Summary
Progress of pigeon and poultry breeding experiments. No loss of fertility observed yet.
Blue-eyed cats and deafness.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 June – 7 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4233 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … No other work of mine was begun in so deductive a spirit as this; for the whole theory was …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … the fertility of the offspring (F. Müller 1868b, p. 629). Darwin urged further experimentation. ‘I …
1.18 John Collier, oil in Linnean
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< Back to Introduction By 1881 it was clear to Darwin’s intimates that he was increasingly frail, and that, as he approached death, he had finally escaped from religious controversy to become a heroic figure, loved and venerated for his achievements…
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- … supplement to The Guardian , no. 1900 (3 May 1882), p. 629, in DAR 140.5.101. Reviews of the …
