To John Scott 12 April [1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to publish on sterility of orchids and to experiment on Passiflora.
Doubted Hooker’s poppy case.
Describes case of primrose with three pistils: when pulled apart allowed pollen to be placed directly on ovules. This supports JS’s explanation of H. Crüger’s case.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B59, B77–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4084 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … auricula (see letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] ). To investigate the cause of …
- … their expansion (see letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] ). See letter from James …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . …
- … Letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . CD wrote a draft of the section of Variation …
- … 191; see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). Scott’s observations on self- …
- … 22 September 1862 ( ibid. ). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and n. 13. …
- … See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and nn. 16–17. CD subsequently discussed …
- … 1854a ). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April 1863 and n. 19. See letter to Daniel …
- … April 1863] . See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and n. 25. Hermann Crüger …
- … 1863 ). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and n. 30. In Orchids , p. 324 …
- … letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] , and letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . …
- … See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . In his letter to CD of 23 February …
- … had suggested (see letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] ) that the pollen-tubes …
- … tubes. As he explained in his letter of [1–11] April [1863] , Scott believed that the …
From Asa Gray 11 April 1863
Summary
The war is nearly finished, "rebeldom is ""gone up"" ".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4081 |
Matches: 4 hits
To Arthur Rawson 2 April [1863]
Summary
Discusses unusual primula flowers and asks for details of Rawson’s experiments with gladioli. Asks for loan of Cypripedium but admits he will probably mutilate it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Rawson |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (10 December 2013); Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Autumn 2017 lot 2184) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4072F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Rawson’ s reply, see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Arthur Rawson, [6 April 1863] . …
- … lady’s-slipper); see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Arthur Rawson, 1 April [1863] . …
- … 1 April [1863] (see Correspondence vol. 11). This letter was previously published with an …
- … is now complete. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Arthur Rawson, 1 April [1863] . …
- … See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Daniel Oliver, 24–5 March [1863] . CD published an …
To J. D. Hooker 23 April [1863]
Summary
Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.
Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.
Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4122 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … plants from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VI). …
- … diary (DAR 242) that Horace Darwin , aged 11, was intermittently ill during 1863; entries …
- … are reported in Forms of flowers , pp. 11–12. For CD’s notes on the ash, dated 20 April …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1863 and n. 11. Daniel Oliver . In his letter to CD of 20 …
To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … this letter and the letters from Asa Gray , 22–30 March 1863 and 11 April 1863 . Letters …
- … from Asa Gray , 22–30 March 1863 and 11 April 1863 . In his letter to CD of 22–30 March …
- … Campbell’s review. See letter from Asa Gray, 11 April 1863 . CD’s fear of war may have …
- … 1863 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). CD referred to ‘the origin …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n. 11). Experimental notes dated 23 March and 1 …
- … Garden, Edinburgh ( R. Desmond 1994 ). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . …
- … See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and n. 13. …
- … notes on this experiment, dated 26 March – 11 April 1863, are in DAR 108: 165 v. See also …
From Asa Gray 13 April 1863
Summary
Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.
AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4089 |
From W. E. Darwin 22 April [1863]
Summary
Sent off Corydalis. Observations on Corydalis pistils.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4120F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … case of reversion (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to M. T. Masters, 6 April [1863] ). …
- … in species of Linum ’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix IV). William did not go to Cowes …
- … alkanet or bugloss; see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from W. E. Darwin, 4 May [1863] ). …
- … on 1 April 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II). William’s observational notes …
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1863]
Summary
Likes JDH’s review of Alphonse de Candolle [Mémoires et souvenirs de A. P. de Candolle (1862)].
Falconer’s article on Lyell ["Primitive man. What led to the question?", Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] too severe.
CD has written a letter to the Athenæum "to say, under the cloak of attacking Heterogeny, a word in my own defence" [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Bates’s Travels [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)] are excellent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4103 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … in his letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 11 August 1866, p. 756 ( Collected papers 2: …
- … pp. 417–19 (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). In his letter in the Athenæum , …
- … as his guide (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). See letter from John Lubbock, 7 …
- … 554–5. C. Lyell 1863b . See letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863] and n. 11. Bates 1863 . …
- … Bates 1863 was reviewed in the Athenæum , 11 April 1863, pp. 488–9. The anonymous review …
- … of Linum ’ (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix IV). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 [ …
From John Scott [1–11] April [1863]
Summary
Studying self-sterility, particularly in Oncidium, where abortion occurs consistently but stigma functions normally. His hybrid orchid crosses show sterility occurs capriciously. Thus it is not a "special endowment".
Disputes Asa Gray’s and Hermann Crüger’s view of rostellar germination.
Doubts absolute sterility of Catasetum.
Disappointed by results with homomorphic cowslips.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1–11] Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 183, DAR 177: 86 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4073 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 24 April 1863
Summary
Bryanthus erectus, said by [D. D.?] Cunningham to be a hybrid, has been found wild in North America.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4126 |
To William Henry Flower 13 April [1863]
Summary
Asks WHF to obtain photographs of skull of ox for J. L. A. Quatrefages de Bréau.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (2007) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4090 |
To Daniel Oliver [after 14 April 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on Primula ovules. From what DO says the pollen-tubes ought to find their way to the micropyle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [after 14 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4095 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 April 1863] and n. 3, and letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 April 1863 and nn. 6 and 11. …
From John Scott [after 12] April [1863]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Has not published much because he would be ignored as a gardener; hence he is looking for a foreign appointment.
Has prepared orchid sterility paper at CD’s suggestion [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 12] Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4087 |
From Edward Blyth 7 April 1863
Summary
Has seen some curious hybrid ducks and geese of Bartlett’s. Bartlett will do experiments suggested by CD when he has time.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4078 |
To Charles Lyell 18 April [1863]
Summary
Describes a letter he has written to the Athenæum in which he mentions CL’s views on species modification ["Doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Comments on criticism of Lyell’s book [Antiquity] by Falconer and others.
Mentions his eczema.
Invites the Lyells to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.294) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4106 |
From Asa Gray 20 April 1863
Summary
AG’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4112 |
From George Bentham 21 April 1863
Summary
Has not yet read the pamphlets [selection of reviews of Origin, sent by CD at GB’s request]. Though GB does not go so far as Hooker in accepting all of CD’s hypotheses and does not feel up to a thorough discussion of his views, he hopes in his Linnean Anniversary Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] to speak on the present state of the [species] question.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4118 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … April [1863] and nn. 7–9). See letter to George Bentham, 15 April [1863] and nn. 3–11. …
To Athenæum 18 April [1863]
Summary
Attacks the doctrine of "heterogeny" (spontaneous generation during each geological period) as completely lacking in evidence.
Defends natural selection as connecting large classes of facts in natural history. That certain forms have not changed since remote epochs is not an objection of any force.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 25 April 1863, pp. 554–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4108 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 April 1863
Summary
The ovule of Primula is amphitropous or what J. Georg Agardh calls apotropo-amphitropous [see Theoria systematis plantarum (1858), tab. 24, fig. 5–6].
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4093 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Natural History Review n.s. 3: 201–11. SBL : Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Edited by Bertil …
From W. H. Flower 15 April 1863
Summary
Discusses having skull photographed and a cast made.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4101 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … from Armand de Quatrefages, [28 March –] 11 April 1863 ). See also letter to Armand de …
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (2) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (2) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Balfour, J. H. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Crüger, Hermann | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Scott, John | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
| Scott, John | (3) |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 16 hits
- … on the topic. Lyell also added the following note on page 11: *Mr. John Lubbock published …
- … 2 have struck out Galton & Prestwich at p. 11 who will be surprisd [ sic ] to …
- … had done ‘an injustice’ to Falconer and Prestwich. 11 In the same review Lubbock expressed …
- … he took exception to the wording of the note on p. 11 of C. Lyell 1863c, which implied that Lubbock …
- … The statement made by Sir Charles Lyell, in a note to page 11 of his work, that my article on the …
- … of the note in the preface (letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). No correspondence with …
- … of the preface of C. Lyell 1863c and reworded the note on p. 11. Unlike the earlier …
- … Lyell revised both the preface and the note on page 11 of the third edition of Antiquity of man …
- … versions of the end of the preface and of the note on page 11 are included below. Preface, C …
- … as well as of the subsequent issues.” Note on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (original version) …
- … made by him in company with Mr. Busk. Note on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (revised version) …
- … in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence vol. 11, pp. xv–xvii). For a comparison of …
- … 1984, pp. 154–9. 7. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] …
- … Bartholomew 1973. 8. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March …
- … 18 April [1863 ]. 10. Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March …
- … (rough draft of letter from T. H. Huxley to Charles Lyell, 11 June 1865, Imperial College, Huxley …
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: 7 hits
- … German edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of …
- … & a few of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn …
- … letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition …
- … we shall immediately see)’. Page xiv, n., line 11, delete ‘in the years 1794–5’. …
- … substitute for ‘but then . . . kinds of flowers.’: 11 In just some of …
- … sentence also appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 20. 11. p. 56. This whole paragraph was …
- … in Origin 4th ed., p. 449. 47. p. 409–11. This passage also appears, with slight …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
Summary
< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Art Journal , 16:1 (Spring–Summer 1995), pp. 3–11. Julius Bryant (ed.), English Heritage …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
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…
Matches: 8 hits
- … backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). I feel …
- … review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). Darwin was …
- … Correspondence vol. 20, letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). To Darwin’s relief, …
- … the moment of being hatched ( letter to Nature , 7 and 11 May [1874] ; Spalding 1872a). …
- … & that must be enough for me’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). Plants that eat . …
- … cartilage, bone & meat &c. &c.’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). His research …
- … Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [11 October 1873] ). Darwin wasted …
- … the photograph he sent highly ( letter from D. F. Nevill, [11 September 1874] ). At the …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
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…
Matches: 7 hits
- … gave him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether …
- … on Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … of Natural History’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). She had had assistance …
- … for a second edition ( letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ), Darwin asked him to use …
- … see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). Yet Darwin was now …
- … interest. He told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1862] ): ‘This is a nice, but …
- … from one parent’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). really good …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Matches: 8 hits
- … Blair, R.H. 11 July 1871 Worcester College for the …
- … Chaumont, F.S.B.F. de 11 March 1871 Woolston, …
- … 9 Nov 1870 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 1 Feb 1871 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 7 Sept 1872 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 1 Feb. 1871 11 Saint Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington. W., London, …
- … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
- … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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…
Matches: 11 hits
- … regarding species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, …
- … by descent put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the same letter, he …
- … bottom of seas, lakes, and rivers ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). Quarrels at …
- … Academy of Sciences, Berlin (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix III), and of the Société des …
- … unsuccessful ( see letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] ). The council of …
- … [9 May 1863] , and memorandum from G. H. Darwin, [before 11 May 1863]) . As he struggled …
- … to drive the quietest man mad’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). Hooker and Gray agreed …
- … tropical plants than before (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VI). He was fascinated with …
- … pistils mature at different times ( see letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). The fertility of …
- … ‘Crossing & Sterility’ (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II). When Darwin finished, by …
- … animal suffering caused by them (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix IX). Francis Darwin later …
Darwin's 1874 letters go online
Summary
The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…
Race, Civilization, and Progress
Summary
Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
Matches: 4 hits
- … man in his most "primitive wildness" ( letter to Henslow, 11 April 1833 ). They …
- … Letter 204 : Darwin to Henslow, J. S., 11 April 1833 "The Fuegians are in a more …
- … 98). Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October [1859] "the …
- … Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October [1859] I suppose that you do not …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
Matches: 4 hits
- … St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A worsening …
- … Mivart not to acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate …
- … attacks on Darwin became notorious, had written on 11 May expressing concern that his recently, …
- … well informed: `The die is cast’, he wrote excitedly on 11 May , when the matter was first raised …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
Matches: 6 hits
- … the popularity of his book, writing to Robert Cooke on 11 April , ‘though I believe it is of …
- … for extended periods. In a letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 11 October , Darwin described how the …
- … Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the …
- … visits from distinguished persons. Gladstone came to Down on 11 March. ‘I expected a stern, …
- … not been a difficulty to me,’ he replied to Romanes on 11 June , ‘as I have never believed in a …
- … that they become quite tipsy’ ( letter to W. M. Moorsom, 11 September [1877] ). Moorsom replied …
Charles Harrison Blackley
Summary
You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
Summary
1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
Matches: 5 hits
- … to think of the future’, Darwin confessed to William on 11 September just hours after Amy’s …
- … naturalist Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December 1876 ; letter to Samuel Smiles …
- … who died at the age of 10 in 1851, but William, who was 11 years old at the time of her death, would …
- … you are one of the best of all’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 11 September [1876] ). …
- … do I cannot conceive’, Darwin wrote anxiously to Hooker on 11 September. By the time Darwin …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 10 hits
- … in that little sheet of note-paper! DARWIN: 11 My dear Hooker… What a remarkably …
- … 1 OCTOBER 1846 7 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 11 JANUARY 1844 8 C DARWIN TO A …
- … 10 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 24 AUGUST 1855 11 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 5 JUNE 1855 …
- … 22 NOVEMBER 1856 29 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 APRIL 1861 30 A GRAY TO C …
- … A GRAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 1858 58 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 11 OCTOBER 1858 59 A GRAY TO …
- … HOOKER, 18 OCTOBER 1859 63 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1859 64 JD …
- … 13 NOVEMBER 1859 66 C DARWIN TO R OWEN, 11 NOVEMBER 1859 67 C DARWIN …
- … 17 FEBRUARY 1861 111 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 DECEMBER 1861 112 C DARWIN …
- … DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 MAY 1864 159 FROM A GRAY 11 JULY 1864 160 C DARWIN …
- … TO A GRAY 28 JANUARY 1876 204 FROM A GRAY 11 DECEMBER 1874 205 TO A …
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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- … Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives …
- … continue his observations indoors ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] …
- … two letters to the Athenæum ( Correspondence vol. 11). Darwin’s anxiety about the matter was …
- … and the question of human origins ( Correspondence vol. 11). Wallace, however, traced a possible …
Thomas Rivers
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Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
Darwin and Religion
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When Darwin published On the Origin of Species, was there a clear cut division between those who supported science and those who supported God? Find out how Darwin’s letters reveal a complex reaction from all sides and a desire from Darwin to keep his…
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- … Pupils explore the reaction to Darwin’s findings as evidenced through his letters. Activities …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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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…
