To George Bentham 3 February [1862]
Summary
Asks GB’s help to clear up discrepancies between his and John Lindley’s observations on pollination of Melastomataceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1862] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 694–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3437 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To George Bentham 3 February [1862] …
- … Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 694–6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Feb [1862] George Bentham …
- … Hooker and Daniel Oliver . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1862] , and letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] . …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1862] , and to an observational note on Heterocentron …
- … roseum in DAR 205.8: 46, dated 3 February 1862. See also nn. 6 and 8, below. Following …
- … in the letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] . CD refers to the results of his first …
- … out on Heterocentron roseum between October 1861 and January 1862. The results of this …
- … experiment are recorded in a note dated 3 February 1862 (DAR 205.8: 46). …
- … See also letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] and n. 13. …
- … this observation, dated 2 January [1862], in DAR 205.8: 16 r. CD refers to Joseph Dalton …
- … continued to work on the family throughout 1862 and 1863, making extensive notes (see DAR …
- … 1861), Monochaetum ensiferum (dated 15 January 1862), and Centradenia grandiflora and C. …
- … floribunda (dated 2 January [1862]) in DAR 205.8: 44, 22, and 16 v. He summarised his …
- … an experimental note dated 3 February 1862 (DAR 205.8: 46; see n. 8, below). The diagram …
From George Bentham 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids]. CD has opened a new field for observation and a new unexpected track to explore phenomena that had before appeared "irreconcilable with ordinary opinion and method shown in the organic world".
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3554 |
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- … From George Bentham 15 May 1862 …
- … DAR 160.1: 152 George Bentham London, Wilton Place, 25 15 May 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … forms of Catasetum tridentatum ’ , before the Linnean Society of London on 3 April 1862. …
- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. ‘Three sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum ’: …
- … 25. Wilton Place, S.W. May 15 1862 My dear Sir Many thanks for the copy of your most …
- … the possession of the Linnean Society. By Charles Darwin. [Read 3 April 1862. ] Journal of …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 151–7. [ Collected papers 2: 63–70. ] …
To George Bentham 30 March [1862]
Summary
Will try to come to Linnean Society to read his paper, but has been "extra headachy". Fears his paper ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70] will not be worth Lindley’s attendance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1862] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 699) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3488 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To George Bentham 30 March [1862] …
- … Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 699) Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Mar [1862] George Bentham …
- … the possession of the Linnean Society. By Charles Darwin. [Read 3 April 1862. ] Journal of …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 151–7. [ Collected papers 2: 63–70. ] …
- … months March, April, or May, was read in 1862. The letter from Bentham has not been found. …
- … before the Linnean Society on 3 April 1862. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), he …
From George Bentham 15 October 1862
Summary
Sends CD the reference for GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s work [see 3760].
Hopes for a communication to the Linnean Society from CD "this winter".
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3765 |
To George Bentham 13 October [1862]
Summary
Asks for reference to GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s book ["Historical notes on the introduction of various plants into the agriculture and horticulture of Tuscany: a summary of a work entitled Cenni storici sulla introduzione di varie piante nell agricultura ed orticultura Toscana by Dr Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, Florence, 1850", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 9 (1855): 133–81]. [See Variation, 1st ed., 1: 306 n.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 715) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3760 |
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- … To George Bentham 13 October [1862] …
- … Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 715) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Oct [1862] George Bentham …
- … the letter from George Bentham, 15 October 1862 . There is an annotated presentation copy …
- … the section of Variation dealing with ‘Facts of variation of Plants’, on 7 October 1862. …
From George Bentham 15 February 1880
Summary
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12482 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 360. Bentham, George and Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1862–83. Genera plantarum. Ad exemplaria …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav. 1885. Ueber …
- … a synonym of the family Arecaceae) appeared in Bentham and Hooker 1862–83, 3: 870–948. …
- … published in 1883 ( Bentham and Hooker 1862–83 , 3: 460–636); Bentham published a summary …
- … 1881 ). Orchids was first published in 1862; the revised edition appeared in 1877 ( …
To George Bentham 19 June [1863]
Summary
GB’s address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] pleased him as much as Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] disappointed him on species question. GB has done a "real good turn to the right side".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 19 June [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 709–10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4217 |
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- … Richard Owen’s anonymous review of Carpenter 1862 , which appeared in the Athenæum , 28 …
- … xi–xxix. Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1862. Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera. …
- … knowledge and ingenuity’ ( J. S. Mill 1862 , 2: 18 n. ; see Bentham 1863 , pp. xv–xvi). …
- … the experiments detailed in Pasteur 1861 and 1862, as a result of which Louis Pasteur …
To George Bentham 16 February 1880
Summary
CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12485 |
To George Bentham 8 December 1876
Summary
Asks GB to send him flowers of the two forms of Boronia pinnata, as he is republishing his papers on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers].
Sends copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 717) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10706 |
From George Bentham 25 September 1866
Summary
Replies to CD’s two memoranda, GB explains: 1. That he never said thistles do not produce seeds, but rather that the infinite majority of new plants are propagated from buds
2. That book-borrowing rules of the Linnean Library are not so stringent as the Librarian makes out.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5218 |
From George Bentham 26 November 1861
Summary
Remarks about Labiatae, Linum, Oxalis and Viola occasioned by hearing CD’s paper ["Two forms of Primula", read 21 Nov 1861, Collected papers 2: 45–63].
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: 73–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3331 |
To George Bentham 17 June [1861]
Summary
Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 17 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3186 |
From George Bentham 21 May 1863
Summary
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4172 |
To George Bentham 24 November [1861]
Summary
Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 688 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3328 |
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- … Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 77–96. See also Collected papers 2: …
From George Bentham 29 November 1861
Summary
Lists pairs of Oxalis species with differing proportions of stamens and styles.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109 (ser. 2): 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3332 |
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- … Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 77–96 (see also Collected papers 2: …
To George Bentham 30 November [1861]
Summary
Thanks GB for valuable letter [3331].
Will follow his suggestion about violets.
Discusses differences between Thymus and Primula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 30 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 691) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3335 |
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- … of the flower parts of Viola canina , dated May 1862, in DAR 111: 3–6. CD had studied the …
To George Bentham 7 July [1864]
Summary
Asks for names of plants mentioned in an article in Natural History Review ["South European Floras", n.s. 4 (1864): 369–84] so he can get seeds.
Also would like specimens of the two forms of Aegiphila.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 7 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 716) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4554 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Lindley, …
To George Bentham 26 November [1861]
Summary
Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 689) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3330 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 77–96, CD included information provided by Asa …
To George Bentham 9 March [1874]
Summary
Asks GB to support the election of CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, to the Athenaeum Club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 9 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence Series) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9347 |
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- … regulations, and list of members . London: n.p. 1862. Waugh, Francis Gledstanes. [1888. ] …
From George Bentham 10 July 1864
Summary
Sends specimens of two species of Aegiphila [see Forms of flowers, p. 123]. Discusses similar forms in other plants.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B107–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4556 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, [2 June 1862] and n. 2. CD discussed the Rubiaceae in …
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| Bentham, George | (16) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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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…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
- … be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
- … him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
- … Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
- … but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
- … but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
- … him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
- … is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
- … with his study of Primula and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
- … 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
- … in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
- … telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
- … great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
- … labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
- … of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
- … sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
- … case he determined to experiment on Linum in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
- … be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
- … Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
- … who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
- … pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he worried about the resulting …
- … the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his son, William, his …
- … every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I never before felt half so …
- … he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). But he did not have long to wait. ‘It is …
- … it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862). Orchids was published on 15 May, …
- … all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). a flank-movement on the …
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: 5 hits
- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a …
- … edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of the …
- … of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn some of these …
- … in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he mentioned that he was sending …
- … from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition incorporating …
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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- … in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
- … cause. Tension. THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
- … 1856 33 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34 JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
- … 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
- … 10 JUNE 1861 121 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
- … 7 JULY 1863 152 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, DECEMBER 1862 153 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 1861 163 C Darwin TO A Gray, 16 OCTOBER 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, …
- … a construction suitable for tropical plants. In 1861 and 1862, while preparing Orchids , he was …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, Darwin purchased for …
- … over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10) …
- … Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). 3. Asclepias curassavica. …
I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]
Summary
Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.
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- … Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Clémence Auguste Royer
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Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
- … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
- … 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
- … - Darwin to Wedgwood, K. E. S, M. S. & L. C., [4 August 1862] Darwin thanks his “angel …
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … 1 October [1861] To Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] To Charles Lyell, 14 October …
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Orchids
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
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- … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles 1862. On the various contrivances by which …
- … 3421 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 30 January 1862 Darwin tells Hooker about a …
- … Letter 3662 —Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 23-4 July 1862 Darwin tells Asa Gray, a professor …
- … Darwin’s work with orchids and Chapter 1 of Darwin’s 1862 book On the various …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
Matches: 6 hits
- … briefly mentioned in his Primula paper. In July 1862, Darwin explained to Gray, ‘ I have …
- … of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the …
- … to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun researching in 1862 after Hooker had supplied him with …
- … of Lythrum he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has …
- … of the crossing experiments immediately, but by October 1862, he admitted to Hooker, ‘ I am rather …
- … 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting in November 1862, telling him, ‘ Next year I shall …
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … on Verbascum. Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
- … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
- … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
- … vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …
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…
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- … [1859] Letter to Charles Kingsley, 6 February [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Species and varieties
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
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- … the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …
