To Robert Caspary 21 February [1866]
Summary
Requests copy of paper read at Amsterdam Horticultural Congress, on graft-hybrids like that of Cytisus adami [see 5018].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Date: | 21 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5012 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letter to Daniel Oliver, 24 July [1862] ). CD discussed the plant in Variation 1: 387– …
From George Henslow [after 19 April 1866]
Summary
Thanks for explanation on relative fertility of homostyled and heterostyled crosses in Primula. Sends an intermediate form with small stamens, but stigma only slightly above stamens.
Election as Botanical Lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 19 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5044 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … with ‘equal-styled’ specimens since 1862. CD concluded that these specimens were …
From Fritz Müller 2 August 1866
Summary
Gives some observations on orchids and on some plants which seem to be dichogamous.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B33, 33a; DAR 157a: 81, 102; DAR 142: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5173 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’: On the …
To Friedrich Hildebrand 16 May [1866]
Summary
Has forwarded FH’s paper on Fumariaceae to horticultural congress. Comments on its findings.
Discusses forms of Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5092 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin 4th ed. : On the origin of species by …
To Fritz Müller 23 May 1866
Summary
Thanks for information on orchids
and facts on coastal flora and fauna.
Asks FM to look out for dimorphic aquatic and marsh plants.
Has read pamphlets "in our favour" by Carl v. Nägeli and Oscar Schmidt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 23 May 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5097 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
From George Henslow [13 or 14 June 1866]
Summary
Thanks for criticism of proofs of his paper [see 5117].
Not sure whether CD believes in reversion and would like a positive statement as this is the one point C. V. Naudin especially observed. Naudin offers his remarks on ovules as a matter to be proved ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1 (1865): 25–176].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 14] June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5120 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] and n. 11, and Correspondence vol. 12, …
From James Samuelson 8 April 1866
Summary
Pleased CD does not consider review of his works prejudiced [Anon., "Darwin and his teachings", Q. J. Sci. 3 (1866): 151–76].
Supports gradual development of species over time.
Confused by the metaphysical view implied in the analogy between a creative power that has made new species and artificial selection governed by human reason (Origin, 3d ed., p. 492).
Doubts natural selection.
Cites his discussion of the origin of Infusoria [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 14 (1865): 546–7].
Author: | James Samuelson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5049 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin 3d ed. : On the origin of species by …
From W. E. Darwin 8 May [1866]
Summary
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B52, 66–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3144 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 February [1862] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
To Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1866
Summary
Welcomes ARW’s paper on pigeons ["On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago", Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400].
Influence of monkeys on distribution of pigeons and parrots.
Asks ARW to explain a passage in his paper on Malayan Papilionidae [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71] on how dimorphic forms are produced. CD knows of varieties "that will not blend or intermix", but which produce offspring quite like either parent.
ARW’s remarks on geographical distribution in Celebes "will give a cold shudder to the immutable naturalists".
Presses ARW to work on his travel journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4982 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and n. 3). After his return from Malaya in 1862, Wallace spent five years organising his …
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to A. C. Ramsay, 5 September [1862] ). In Origin 4th ed. , p. 427, CD enumerated ‘ …
To J. D. Hooker [28 February 1866]
Summary
Refers to part of JDH letter on glacial period sent on to Lyell. CD will not yield. Cannot think how JDH attaches so much attention to physicists. Has "come not to care at all for general beliefs without the special facts".
His health is improved but not so good as JDH supposes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Feb 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5020 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 June 1862 , n. 9. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 …
From J. D. Hooker 14 December 1866
Summary
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 121–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5305 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … part of Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83) was published in 1865, the third in …
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 June 1866
Summary
Reports on his health.
Discusses a surveying expedition under Richard Charles Mayne on which his son will be Second Lieutenant; hopes to arrange for them to excavate some bones in the Falklands.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 286 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5133 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letter from Arthur Mellersh, 30 November [1862] . Sulivan’s discovery is discussed in …
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1866]
Summary
A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?
A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.
Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.
On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.
Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 308, 308b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5300 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letter from W. B. Clarke, 16 January 1862 and nn. 13 and 14, and Origin 4th ed. , …
To Fritz Müller 11 January 1866
Summary
Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.
Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.
CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4972 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … by Heinrich Georg Bronn , who died in 1862. John Murray published the third English …
From H. E. Darwin [c. 10 May 1866]
Summary
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 10 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5075 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav. 1865. Neotinea …
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 10 May 1866
Summary
Encloses letter from H. B. Geinitz, who declines to handle translation of new edition of Origin. Recommends Julius Victor Carus. Also suggests Gustav von Leonhard as translator for Origin.
Discusses translation of Variation.
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5085 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bronn until the latter’s death in July 1862, when the name of the journal was changed to …
From Friedrich Rolle 28 January 1866
Summary
Last fascicles of FR’s book Der Mensch [1866] being sent.
Finds roots of human race in Negroes of Africa, Bushmen of South Africa and New Guinea, and short-headed peoples of south Asia.
Has translated natural selection as natürliche Auslese.
Ludwig Rütimeyer active in developing the descent of mammals.
Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4986 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Rolle had worked before leaving in March 1862 to settle in Homburg ( Correspondence vol. …
From John Traherne Moggridge 15 February [1866]
Summary
Is sending Ophrys plants marked as CD requested as wild or under cultivation. Discusses arrangements for a scheme planned for 1867 and his method for marking his Ophrys specimens.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR Pamphlet collection G368 (bound in part of Moggridge 1865–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5008A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
From Ernst Haeckel 11 January 1866
Summary
Comments on CD’s health.
Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.
Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.
His lectures on CD’s theory.
Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4973 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 7 June 1862 and n. 5); it was taken by Maull & …
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Shaw, James | (3) |
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Caspary, Robert | (1) |
Collingwood, Cuthbert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Horner, M. E. | (1) |
Hunt, Robert | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Lyell, M. E. | (1) |
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Müller, Fritz | (6) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Suchsland, Rudolf | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (82) |
Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
Müller, Fritz | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
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…
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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.
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
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- … 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 …