From J. D. Hooker 25 October 1873
Summary
Describes his experiments on Nepenthes; finds action analogous to that in Drosera.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9113 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [after 20 October 1873?]
Summary
Composition of the residue left on evaporation of the fluid in Nepenthes.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 20 Oct 1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 60.2: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9792 |
From Emma Wuttke 1 October 1873
Summary
Sends tracing of ancient Egyptian illustration of dogs and cattle.
| Author: | Emma Wuttke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9083 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 October 1873
Summary
Describes work on Nepenthes – more difficult than Drosera.
Has written to Dublin for a Drosophyllum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9102 |
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- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 September [1873] , and Insectivorous plants , pp. 97, 361, 452). Hooker had written the section on Nepenthes for Augustin Pyramus and Alphonse de Candolle’s Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis (Candolle and Candolle 1824–73 , 17: 90–105); in it he cited Voelcker 1849 , …
To E. W. Lane 23 June 1873
Summary
Thanks EWL for his book about hydropathy [Old medicine and new (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Wickstead Lane |
| Date: | 23 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.429) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8946 |
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- … 1849 and 1864 (see Browne 1990 ). He stayed at Lane’s hydropathic establishment at Moor Park in Farnham, Surrey, on numerous occasions between 1857 and 1859 (see Correspondence vols. 6 and 7 and Browne 2002 , pp. 63–72). His last visit to a spa was at Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, during a period of severe illness in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
From Frank Chance 31 July – 7 August 1873
Summary
Gives some observations on ponies’ becoming white in winter;
on skin pigmentation and the effects of heat;
on the bristling of the hair in man.
| Author: | Frank Chance |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July – 7 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 53.1: 2–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8993 |
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- … letter from Frank Chance, [before 25 April 1871] ). The hair and beard samples are in DAR 142: 59–60. Descent 2: 298. CD had dismissed the action of light and temperature in different climates as a major determinant of colour in the races of humans in Descent 1: 241–2. Chance refers to Arthur Hill Hassall and Hassall 1849 , …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Chance, Frank | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Wuttke, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Lane, E. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Chance, Frank | (1) |
| Lane, E. W. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Darwin's health
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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
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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)
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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 …
