To P. H. Gosse 7 April [1864]
Summary
Discusses microscopic observation of pollen tubes.
Unable to exchange orchids because of his illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.298) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4454 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1864]
Summary
CD apologises for having asked JDH to help him with Scott and now seeks advice on how to break the news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4455 |
From Alfred Newton 7 April 1864
Summary
CD need not worry about having discarded the partridge’s foot.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4456 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gosse, P. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gosse, P. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
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.
Matches: 1 hits
- … recorded in the distribution of plants. Page 407, par. 2, lines 14–15, insert after ‘now …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … despondent, yet benevolent man’ (‘Recollections’, p. 407). Even scientific colleagues could …
