From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
To Alfred Newton 29 March [1864]
Summary
Eighty-two plants have germinated from earth on wounded partridge’s foot.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 29 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4440 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … heard of ‘a few authentic exceptions’ ( Variation 2: 329), and still they kept coming . By …
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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- … de la Provence [Darluc 1782–6] 8vo. 1782. Tom I p. 303 to 329 gives account of migratory sheep of …
