To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1861]
Summary
Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.
Orchids.
Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3268 |
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- … to the Himalayas, 1848–50. In a letter of 1849 , Hooker described the geology of Sikkim, …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1849 ). See letters from T. F. Jamieson, 13 June …
- … letters to T. H. Huxley, 9 April [1860] , to Charles Lyell , 10 April [1860], and to Asa Gray , 25 April [1860]. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, George Brettingham Sowerby Jr arrived at Down on 7 October 1861. An entry in CD’s Account book (Down House MS) records a payment to Sowerby for ten days of work in preparing the woodcuts for Orchids . Many of Karl Friedrich von Gärtner’s hybridisation experiments on Verbascum , the results of which are tabulated in Gärtner 1849 , …
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1861]
Summary
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3329 |
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- … See Orchids , pp. 206–10. Link 1849 and Brown 1831 . See letters to J. D. Hooker, 10 …
- … 1849 ). Henry Walter Bates had deposited specimens from his collection of South American butterflies at the British Museum . His paper on insect mimetic analogies ( Bates 1861b ) was read before the Linnean Society of London on 21 November, the same night that CD read his paper on Primula (see n. 6, above). A note in DAR 205.10 (Letters) …
From Daniel Oliver [before 3 November 1861]
Summary
List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 225–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3039 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 October [1861]
Summary
Orchid anatomy. Movements of labellum.
Repeating Gärtner’s experiment with Verbascum varieties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3288 |
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- … notes on Gärtner 1844 and 1849, see Marginalia . See letters to J. D. Hooker, 19 June [ …
- … 1849 , pp. 92, 180–1, 724–8. Karl Friedrich von Gärtner had shown that the pollen of white and yellow varieties of particular Verbascum species had different potencies when crossed with other Verbascum species (see letter …
To Daniel Oliver 7 December [1861]
Summary
Trusts DO’s opinion on Acropera ovules.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 3 (EH 88205987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3340 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 September 1861]
Summary
List of Australian plants that have become naturalised in the Nilgiris [India] and are turning out the native trees.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Sept 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3269 |
To Daniel Oliver 30 November [1861]
Summary
Requests that DO examine enclosed microscope slides of Acropera ovules, to confirm CD’s opinion that females are non-functional.
Can DO comment on disagreement between Robert Brown and John Lindley over the number of Acropera carpels?
O. Heer’s Atlantis theory vs CD’s hypothesis of a migration north during warm periods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 30 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 2 (EH 88205986) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3333 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1861]
Summary
Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.
Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 126, 129b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3311 |
To Joseph Leidy 4 March [1861]
Summary
JL’s approval of CD’s work is gratifying. Most palaeontologists despise it. Delighted that JL has some interesting facts "in support of … selection". Is sure his views will be partially accepted. Has never doubted that "much in my Book will be proved erroneous".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Leidy |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3081 |
To Charles Lyell 23 [October 1861]
Summary
Comments especially on the "intermediate shelf" problem of Glen Roy; views of Jamieson and Milne. CD "cannot help a sneaking hope that the sea might have formed the horizontal shelves".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 23 [Oct 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.269) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3295 |
To C. W. Crocker 1 June [1861]
Summary
Suggests procedures for breeding experiments with hollyhocks. Recommends C. F. v. Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)]. [See also 3151]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles William Crocker |
| Date: | 1 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.251) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3170 |
To John Obadiah Westwood 15 August [1861]
Summary
As a general rule CD thinks it best to deposit specimens in the British Museum, and "bitterly regrets" he did not send all his specimens there. Nevertheless he agrees to sending his crustaceans to the Oxford Museum.
CD is at work on Orchids. He would be greatly obliged if JOW could send him specimens of pollen-masses attached to head or base of proboscis of moths.
Asks for reference to Morren’s paper that JOW mentioned before [see 2862].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Obadiah Westwood |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1861] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3234 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 May [1861]
Summary
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24–5 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3155 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [May 1861] . The London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science , edited by Charles Mackay , began publication in July 1860. Hooker had collected many species of Rhododendron during his expedition to the Himalayas, 1848–50. His work entitled The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya ( Hooker 1849 ) …
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| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
| Leidy, Joseph | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
| Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
| Leidy, Joseph | (1) |
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
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- … < Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged …
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Specialism | Experiment | Microscopes | Collecting | Theory Letter writing …
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…
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- … On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher …
What is an experiment?
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Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
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- … Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand …
Barnacles
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Darwin and barnacles …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Summary
George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … George Eliot was the pen name of the celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
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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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Darwin's illness
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Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to protect him from cold. In a letter to his cousin William Fox, he wrote: "Long and continued ill health has much changed me, & I very often think with…
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- … Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to …
Fritz Müller
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Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
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- … Francis Darwin, in Life and letters of Charles Darwin , wrote of Fritz Müller They …
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the …
Darwin and Design
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century in Britain, religion and the sciences were generally thought to be in harmony. The study of God’s word in the Bible, and of his works in nature, were considered to be part of the same truth. One version of this…
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- … At the beginning of the nineteenth century in Britain, religion and the sciences were generally …
