Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

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List of most recent chapters published for the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin novel. A total of 123 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024

Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.Volume I.by Charles Darwin.PREFACE In choosing le
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.Volume I.by Charles Darwin.PREFACE In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to ill.u.s.trate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a hist

101 John Collier, for the portrait now in the possession of the Society.Of the artist, he wrote, "Collier was the most considerate, kind and pleasant painter a sitter could desire." The portrait represents him standing facing the observer in the loo 2024-4-23
102 P.S.--You have paid me the highest conceivable compliment, by what you say of your work in relation to my chapters on distribution in the 'Origin,' and I heartily thank you for it.[The following letters ill.u.s.trate my father's power of ta 2024-4-23
103 I have at last read every word of your book, and it has excited in me greater interest than any other scientific book which I have read for a long time. You will perhaps be surprised how slow I have been, but my head prevents me reading except at interval 2024-4-23
104 He is manifestly a well-read physiologist and pathologist, and from his position a good anatomist. It is full of reasoning, and this in German is very difficult to me, so that I have only skimmed through each page; here and there reading with a little mor 2024-4-23
105 From a letter to Dr. Dohrn, February 13, 1882:-- "I have got one very bad piece of news to tell you, that F. Balfour is very ill at Cambridge with typhoid fever... I hope that he is not in a very dangerous state; but the fever is severe. Good Heavens, wh 2024-4-23
106 A letter to Dr. Asa Gray (September 5th, 1857) gives the substance of the paper in the "Gardeners' Chronicle":-- "Lately I was led to examine buds of kidney bean with the pollen shed; but I was led to believe that the pollen could HARDLY get on the st 2024-4-23
107 Again to the same friend, November 1, 1861:-- "If you really can spare another Catasetum, when nearly ready, I shall be most grateful; had I not better send for it? The case is truly marvellous; the (so-called) sensation, or stimulus from a light touch i 2024-4-23
108 With many thanks, my dear sir, Yours sincerely, CH. DARWIN.P.S.--I send by this post my paper on climbing plants, parts of which you might like to read.[Sir Thomas Farrer and Dr. W. Ogle were also guided and encouraged by my father in their observations. 2024-4-23
109 ... I was much interested by your brother's article on Hedychium; about two years ago I was so convinced that the flowers were fertilized by the tips of the wings of large moths, that I wrote to India to ask a man to observe the flowers and catch the mot 2024-4-23
110 [An extract from a letter to Dr. Gray (March 11, 1873) mentions the progress of the work:-- "I worked last summer hard at Drosera, but could not finish till I got fresh plants, and consequently took up the effects of crossing and sel-fertilising plants, 2024-4-23
111 CHARLES DARWIN TO ASA GRAY. June 8 [1860].... I have been making some little trifling observations which have interested and perplexed me much. I find with primroses and cowslips, that about an equal number of plants are thus characterised.SO-CALLED (by m 2024-4-23
112 CHARLES DARWIN TO ASA GRAY. April 19 [1864].... I received a little time ago a paper with a good account of your Herbarium and Library, and a long time previously your excellent review of Scott's 'Primulaceae,' and I forwarded it to him in India, as it 2024-4-23
113 CHARLES DARWIN TO ASA GRAY. Down, August 4 [1863].My present hobby-horse I owe to you, viz. the tendrils: their irritability is beautiful, as beautiful in all its modifications as anything in Orchids. About the SPONTANEOUS movement (independent of touch) 2024-4-23
114 CHARLES DARWIN TO J. BURDON SANDERSON. Down, July 25, 1873.My dear Dr. Sanderson, I should like to tell you a little about my recent work with Drosera, to show that I have profited by your suggestions, and to ask a question or two.1. It is really beautifu 2024-4-23
115 1880.[The few sentences in the autobiographical chapter give with sufficient clearness the connection between the 'Power of Movement,' and one of the author's earlier books, that on 'Climbing Plants.' The central idea of the book 2024-4-23
116 CHARLES DARWIN TO JULIUS WIESNER. Down, October 25th, 1881.My dear Sir, I have now finished your book ('Das Bewegungsvermogen der Pflanzen.'Vienna, 1881.), and have understood the whole except a very few pa.s.sages. In the first place, let me th 2024-4-23
117 [The next letter to Professor Semper (Professor of Zoology at Wurzburg.) bears on the same subject:]FROM CHARLES DARWIN TO K. SEMPER. Down, July 19, 1881.My dear Professor Semper, I have been much pleased to receive your letter, but I did not expect you t 2024-4-23
118 Sir Joseph Hooker was asked by my father "to take into consideration, with the aid of the botanical staff at Kew and the late Mr. Bentham, the extent and scope of the proposed work, and to suggest the best means of having it executed. In doing this, 2024-4-23
119 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN. Born 12 February, 1809. Died 19 April, 1882.APPENDIX II.I.--LIST OF WORKS BY CHARLES DARWIN.Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of Her Majesty's s.h.i.+ps 'Adventure'and 'Beagle' between the years 1826 and 18 2024-4-23
120 II.--LIST OF BOOKS CONTAINING CONTRIBUTIONS BY CHARLES DARWIN.A Manual of scientific enquiry; prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy: and adapted for travellers in general. Edited by Sir John F.W.Herschel, Bart. 8vo. London, 1849. (Section VI. Ge 2024-4-23
121 ("Zoology"), page 45.Special t.i.tles of Charles Darwin's contributions to the foregoing:-- i. Extract from an unpublished work on Species by Charles Darwin Esq., consisting of a portion of a chapter ent.i.tled, "On the Variation of Or 2024-4-23
122 The s.e.xual Colours of certain b.u.t.terflies. 'Nature,' January 8, 1880, volume xxi. page 237.The Omori Sh.e.l.l Mounds. 'Nature,' April 15, 1880, volume xxi. page 561.Sir Wyville Thomson and Natural Selection. 'Nature,' November 11, 1880, volume 2024-4-23
123 Wollaston Medal, 1859. Royal Geographical. 1838. Royal. 1839. Royal Medal, 1853. Copley Medal, 1864. Linnean. 1854. Ethnological. 1861.Medico-Chirurgical. Hon. Member. 1868. Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians, 1879.SOCIETIES.--PROVINCIAL, COLON 2024-4-23