To T. C. Eyton 12 [May 1861 – April 1863]
Summary
Thanks TCE for telling him of his crossed pigs. When they are grown, he would like to know whether they resemble each other.
Doubts the half-bred Gallus sonnerati will be productive, though he was assured many years ago that such a fertile half-breed once occurred.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 12 [May 1861 - Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13804 |
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- … Dec 1862 12 Jan 1863 12 Feb 1863 12 Mar 1863 12 Apr 1863 Thomas Campbell Eyton …
- … years ago’ (see also n. 3, below). In 1862, hybrids of G. sonneratii and G. bankiva ( …
- … 10, letter from T. C. Eyton, [after 19 May 1862 ? ]; the ‘jungle fowl’ mentioned in that …
To Edward Walford 13 June [1861]
Summary
Sends "the dates of the principal events of my Life" requested by EW [for use in his Men of the time (1862)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Walford |
Date: | 13 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Ralph Colp Jr (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3181 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the principal events of my Life" requested by EW [for use in his Men of the time (1862)]. …
- … year is provided by the reference to the biography of CD included in Walford ed. 1862. …
- … Walford was the editor of the 1862 edition of the biographical series Men of the time ( …
- … DNB ). The entry for CD in Walford ed. 1862 includes information on the educational …
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 May [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3168 |
To Charles Lyell 1 October [1861]
Summary
The flint tools found at Bedford.
Further discussion of Jamieson’s theory of the formation of the roads of Glen Roy by a glacial lake. Comments on formation of Glen Spean terraces. Mentions glaciers in North Wales.
Agreement with John Murray to publish [Orchids].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.266) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3272 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 November [1861]
Summary
JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.
Faunal distribution and the glacial period.
Orchid homologies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3322 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Pengelly, …
- … William. 1862. The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire. Philosophical …
- … fecundity of different-coloured anthers in 1862. He had apparently been given the plants …
- … of the Linnean Society in which Hooker 1862 was published, CD wrote: ‘Hooker in letter …
- … Pengelly’s paper on the lignites and clays ( Pengelly 1862 ) and Oswald Heer’s paper …
- … on the fossil flora (Heer 1862) (see Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (1861): …
To Henry Bence Jones 23 June [1861]
Summary
Noting that he is not an M.D., he would be much gratified should the University of Breslau think fit to honour him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 23 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194A |
To Asa Gray 21 July [1861]
Summary
Is writing his paper on orchids.
Is surprised that AG gets little or no response with Drosera.
Describes the two forms of Primula and asks whether AG knows any analogous cases of dimorphism.
Reports that John Stuart Mill approves of CD’s scientific method.
Discusses American politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3216 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
- … For Gray’s response, see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 10 November 1862 . …
- … Gray sent long notes in May 1862 (see letter to …
- … Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ). Gray’s observations of Spiranthes gracilis (a synonym of …
- … n. When he came to review Orchids in 1862, Gray mentioned his examination of Spiranthes …
- … of the flower’s structure (see A. Gray 1862 , p. 427). See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 77–96. See also Collected papers 2: …
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 5 December [1861]
Summary
Admires LR’s book [Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten (1861)].
Will attempt to arrange for skull of wild white Chillingham cattle to be sent by Earl of Tankerville.
CD has come to same conclusion as LR on zebus.
CD’s MS of Variation is half-prepared.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 5 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3339 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … below) and by the relationship to the letters to Ludwig Rütimeyer , 15 January [1862] and …
- … 11 February [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). Rütimeyer, professor of zoology and …
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letters from Henry Holland , [before 15 January 1862] and …
- … 15 January [1862]). It was believed that the Chillingham cattle were the closest living …
- … the letter to Ludwig Rütimeyer, 15 January [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). In Rütimeyer …
To Asa Gray 11 December [1861]
Summary
Discusses the worsening relations between their two countries and the possibility of war.
Expects Orchids and his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] to be out soon.
Thanks AG for some facts on dimorphism.
George Bentham has given him a list of Oxalis and Mentha species that are dimorphic like Primula.
Is in a "thick mud" regarding design in nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3342 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
- … Oliver, 7 December [1861] . On 3 April 1862, CD read a paper before the Linnean Society …
- … Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 151–7; see also Collected papers 2: …
- … did not reach London until 8 January 1862. The editors have followed Francis Darwin in …
- … in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 77–96. …
- … was published by John Murray in May 1862. George Bentham , president of the Linnean …
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1861]
Summary
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3352 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
- … the ‘Atlantis’ hypothesis was published later in 1862 ( Oliver 1862a ). See also letter to …
- … was published by John Murray in May 1862. Daniel Oliver read a paper on the distribution …
- … Royal Institution of Great Britain in March 1862 ( Oliver 1862b ). He maintained that the …
To A. G. More 4 June [1861]
Summary
Sends queries concerning insect fertilisation of Epipactis palustris.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 4 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3175 |
To A. G. More 17 June [1861]
Summary
Would be grateful for observations on orchids.
Believes Spiranthes visited by moths. Asks AGM to repeat experiment on Spiranthes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 17 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3187 |
To John Murray 24 September [1861]
Summary
Thanks JM for his liberal offer [to publish Orchids]. CD fears the public will not be interested, but thinks it will "do good to the Origin as it will show that I worked hard on details and it will perhaps serve [to] illustrate how Natural History may be worked under the belief of the modification of Species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 24 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 108–109B) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3264 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1861]
Summary
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 June [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3190 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Variation : The variation of animals and …
- … a memoir of Henslow, his brother- in-law, in 1862, to which CD contributed a short piece ( …
- … Jenyns ed. 1862, pp. 51–5; Collected papers 2: 72–4). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 24– …
- … Bentham were preparing (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83). The work contains, in addition to a …
To J. D. Hooker [6 July 1861]
Summary
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 July 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3200 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [December 1861]
Summary
Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.
CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.
Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3346 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … genera. The first part of volume 1 of Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83) was …
- … published in 1862. John Lindley separated these two tribes of orchids on the basis of a …
- … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
- … Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 77–96. George Bentham was president …
To George Busk 5 April [1861]
Summary
Sends two letters from G. Lincecum about ants ("perhaps the most marvellous instinct ever recorded") for possible publication. [See Gideon Lincecum, "The habits of the ""agricultural ants"" of Texas", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 6 (1862): 29–31.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 5 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.704A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3112 |
To John Lindley 15 December [1861]
Summary
Thanks JL for a flower of Bolbophyllum, a genus that puzzles him.
Recent work has convinced him a number of orchids are male. Points out that JL [in The vegetable kingdom (1846), pp. 177–8] "accidentally misquoted" R. H. Schomburgk on this point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 15 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 198) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3344 |
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 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 October [1861]
Summary
Tells of a shooting competition at Down.
Has been working hard at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3294 |
letter | (128) |
Hooker, J. D. | (37) |
More, A. G. | (10) |
Oliver, Daniel | (7) |
Unidentified | (7) |
Gray, Asa | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (128) |
Hooker, J. D. | (37) |
More, A. G. | (10) |
Oliver, Daniel | (7) |
Unidentified | (7) |
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
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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…
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
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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
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
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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…
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.
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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…
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
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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…
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … [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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …