To J. D. Hooker 13 January [1863]
Summary
Acquired characteristics.
Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.
Asa Gray on slavery.
Falconer’s partial conversion.
Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3913 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . Hooker and Bentham departed for Paris …
- … in London during November and December 1862; the lectures were published as T. H. …
- … 1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1862] . T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. …
- … be confusing to a non-geologist. See letters to T. H. Huxley, 7 December [1862] and n. …
- … 7, and 18 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 153–6. …
- … from Alphonse de Candolle, 18 September 1862 ; see also following letter. CD’s annotated …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] ), and this volume, letter to Asa Gray, 2 …
- … With his letter to Hooker of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD enclosed …
- … In his letter to Hooker of 3 November [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD enclosed a …
- … the third lecture, delivered on 24 November 1862 (‘The method by which the causes of the …
- … n. 4. Letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). In Asa Gray’s …
- … in the bud (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ). …
- … In November and December 1862, CD and Hooker debated the effects of crossing on variation, …
- … 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 November 1862 ). CD agreed with Gray ( A. Gray 1862d , …
- … form. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] . The …
- … letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), is incomplete; Gray’s …
- … 51). The letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), is incomplete; …
- … s Democracy in America (H. Reeve trans. 1862). See Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [21 December 1862] , and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … on Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83), and also had official duties in his …
- … of movement in Hedysarum and Mimosa in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). CD was keen to …
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , and letter to …
- … John Scott, 12 November [1862] , and this volume, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 December 1862] , and this volume, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1863]
Summary
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3898 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … s queries with his letter of [27 or 28 December 1862] ( ibid. ). See Correspondence vol. …
- … 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [31 December 1862] . Henry Parker , the son of …
- … Parker , visited Down House on 29 December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 29 [December 1862] ). Corrosive sublimate (mercuric chloride) was used in …
- … Owen 1858 and 1861b, and Blake 1861 ). In 1862, Blake argued that, according to the rules …
- … and was likely to propagate errors ( Blake 1862 , p. 58). Falconer refuted the claims of …
- … of the Royal Society of London in November 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from …
- … J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 24 [November 1862] and nn. 9 and 10). Owen was not re-elected at the 30 …
- … part of volume 1 of Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83. CD’s annotated copy of this number of the …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 December 1862] . CD’s daughter, Henrietta Emma Darwin , was …
- … J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 December 1862] ). Both CD and Emma Darwin were grandchildren of …
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 December 1862] and n. 5). …
- … In his letter to Hooker of 24 December [1862] ( ibid. ), CD asked several questions about …
To J. D. Hooker 3 August [1863]
Summary
Tendril plants received.
Has just completed large crossing experiment with Lythrum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4261 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de 1853 à 1862 inclusivement. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’: On the …
- … on L. salicaria at the end of July 1862 and, after making the 94, not 96, crosses …
- … his results (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 9 August [1862] and [3–] …
- … 4 September [1862] , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 27 [October 1862] and n. 12). See also this volume, letter to J. D. …
- … CD’s experimental notes on Lythrum , dated 1862–4, are in DAR 27: B1–57, and DAR 109: B36– …
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Stewart. Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1862. Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera. …
- … 16: 5–98. [Vols. 10,11] Wyman, Jeffries. 1862. Experiments on the formation of Infusoria …
- … Richard Owen’s anonymous review of Carpenter 1862 in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp. …
- … Gray’s colleague at Harvard University, who in 1862 began a series of experiments which …
- … those of Louis Pasteur , although with different results ( Wyman 1862 ; see DSB ). Bentham …
- … that Pasteur’s results ( Pasteur 1861 and 1862) seemed to refute completely ‘the idea of …
- … for his work on spontaneous generation in 1862 (see Farley 1977 ). Wyman subsequently …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1863]
Summary
On Wedgwood vases for JDH.
Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Nov 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4348 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … with scarlet fever during the summer of 1862, suffering two relapses (see Correspondence …
- … vol. 10, letters from J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1862] and n. 11, and letter to A. …
- … R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] ). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 16 [November 1863] and 5 [ …
- … raised Mniodes to the generic level in Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, 2: 301. Gray refers to …
- … s Genera Plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83). See n. 18, above. Gray’s review of …
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … trans. 1860 ), and France ( Royer trans. 1862 ). There are copies of Bronn trans. 1860 …
- … 1: 180–1). CD’s copy of Royer trans. 1862 has not been found but a lightly annotated copy …
- … 1955–89. Royer, Clémence Auguste, trans. 1862. De l’origine des espèces ou des lois du …
- … and Leonard Darwin’s attack of scarlet fever in 1862; Horace Darwin also had a serious …
- … illness throughout the early part of 1862 (see Correspondence vols. 7 and 10). Robert …
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1863]
Summary
Naudin has not answered CD’s letter.
Reactions of Candolle, Naudin, Decaisne, and Gaston de Saporta to Origin.
CD’s new hothouse.
CD’s Linum paper.
JDH’s work on Welwitschia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3953 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … In his letter to Hooker of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD enclosed a ‘ …
- … Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de. 1862. Notice sur les plantes fossiles de Coumi et …
- … By Albert Gaudry. Paris: F. Savy. 1862–7. ] Trimen, Roland. 1863. On the fertilization of …
- … Harvey, 3 February 1863 . At the end of 1862, CD resolved to build a hothouse (see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … not published until 1868. Since June 1862, CD had drafted several chapters of Variation …
- … letter to G. V. Reed, 12 January 1863 . CD suffered from eczema in June 1862, and had a …
- … further attack in October 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] and …
- … 6 October [1862] ). CD stayed with his family at Malvern Wells from 3 September to 12 or …
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: 4 hits
- … et souvenirs de A. P. de Candolle (1862)]. Falconer’s article on Lyell ["Primitive man. …
- … 1986. Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1862. Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera. …
- … study of the Foraminifera ( Carpenter 1862 ), which appeared in the Athenæum , 28 March …
- … vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] and n. 18). See letter to Athenæum , 18 …
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1863]
Summary
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4250 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
- … s German translation of Orchids (Bronn trans. 1862), not realising that Bronn had already …
- … concluded it before his death on 5 July 1862 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 July 1862) . The editors of the Annals and Magazine …
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1863]
Summary
Herbert Spencer’s work disappointing – "all words & generalities".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4218 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [June 1863]
Summary
CD describes first observation of gyratory motion of tendrils: explains its adaptive function is to find objects to hold on to.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 [June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4221 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 March 1863]
Summary
CD regrets he used "creation" in Origin when he meant "appeared".
An Oken-like article in "Owenian style" in Athenæum.
Tropical plants continue to be troublesome.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4065 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.
Latent characters and reversion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4061 |
To J. D. Hooker 12–13 August [1863]
Summary
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12–13 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4266 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Fertilisation of trees by bees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 [Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4039 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [July 1863]
Summary
Asa Gray writes as if Civil War were a holy war.
J. E. Renan on Jesus [Vie de Jésus (1863)].
Literature on tendrils of Cucurbita is contradictory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4254 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 February [1863]
Summary
Asa Gray on democracy of plants.
Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3986 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
| letter | (31) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
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: 28 hits
- … 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
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 8 hits
- … 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
Summary
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…
Matches: 6 hits
- … 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.
Matches: 1 hits
- … Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … 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
Summary
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
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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.
Matches: 1 hits
- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Orchids
Summary
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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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
Summary
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 …
