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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 3247 Collections and/or Records:

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In Dr Grays manual there are 689 genera with 2004 species subtracting the 369 genera with single species we have (calculations), 1856-05-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 15.2: 21, 21a-21b
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; once pinned together


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Dates: 1856-05-15
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In evening put quite open seed-heads of Tussilago fanfara & Leontodon taraxicum into salt-water, 1855-05-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 27.1: F13r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1855-05-17
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In garden-earth often dug many worms & few castings & now I have positively ascertained that they throw these castings in the old burrows which are not wanted, 1872-02-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 64.1: 9
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1872-02-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In Gloxinia speciosa there is a peloric race which can be propagated by seed, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 51: B2r
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Note; by [unidentified] pp Charles Robert Darwin rough draft text?, 7 lines only


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In Henslows Catalogue of 1835 there are 525 genera (less 14 to be expunged as not even naturalised &) & 1495 sp[ecies] (less 56 to be expunged), 1835-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 15.2: 28
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1835-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In Holly the aborted stamens of female fl[owers] with large ovaries but very little shorter & sometimes not shorter than fertile stamens of male fl[owers], 1864-05-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 109: A8
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1864-05-18
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In Hookers Flora of New Zealand there [are] (with those in Supplement) of Phanerogams (table, summarising calculations and comments), 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 16: 241
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In Hot-House / Sleep of Oxalis - new species, 1878-02-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 67: 45r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1878-02-16
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In large bud with anthers beginning to dehisce & with far projecting stigma, 1866-06-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 76: B94
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1866-06-25
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In Mr Smiths Field across lane which is not rolled William observed that whole field covered with pimples - ie small conical projections with grass growing on them, 1809-01-15 - 1882-01-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 63: 14
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-15 - 1882-01-16
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In order to find out something about the intelligence of such lowly regarded creatures as worms, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 65: 124
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In Periwinkle (Vinca) pollen large-grained adheres in masses to sides of white tuft on stigma, 1841-06-01 - 1841-06-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 76: A3
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Maer


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Dates: 1841-06-01 - 1841-06-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In Primula auricula the long-styled form instead of being more fertile (when illegitimately fert[ilised]) than the short-styled, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 111: B11r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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in Sand-walk a fair lot of O[rchis] maculata, looking for flowers with pollinia, 1862-06-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 70: 3r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1862-06-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In Spartium or common Broom the curling manner of the pistil which burst open to keel covers it with pollen so that insects apparently not in least necessary, 1858-05-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 76: B55r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1858-05-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In the anomalous Hanburya mexicana internodes & tendrils revolve, 1809-10-12 - 1882-10-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 157.2: 52
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-10-12 - 1882-10-27
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In the list to be made omit all those species & genera which are struck out in pencil, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 16: 184a
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In the [London?] Catalogue Mr Watson has gone carefully through it & has ked those forms (Rosa carex always excluded) which stand in the Catalogue as true species, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 15.2: 8-9
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In the Lonicera brachypoda the shoot at tip was quite hooked, 1864-04-20 - 1864-04-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 157.1: 3
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin and Emma Darwin née Wedgwood pp Charles Robert Darwin end part of G excised See see item 13


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Dates: 1864-04-20 - 1864-04-23
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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In the plot of Sweet Pea which produced all pale pink but somewhat streaked with dark a dark purple / ie grandchild of first cross / just like mother has come up. These however were just perceptibly striped with paler pink, 1858-08-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 77: 26cr
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1858-08-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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in the specimen of Drosera placed in weak N[itrate] of Silver (1 gr to 437 water) I see besdies the glands the little prominence formed of 2 or 3 cells, 1877-09-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 60.1: 71r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1877-09-14
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Index & Abstract of Pure Water experiments, 1872-09-01 - 1872-09-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 56: 134
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Eastbourne and Down


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Dates: 1872-09-01 - 1872-09-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Index Germination of Seeds, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 78: 2-3
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Index of observations on Drosera 1873, 1873-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 55: 116-117
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1873-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Index of remaining references [numbered 2, 5, 18, 20, 22, 45, 52, 58, 62, 64, 65] of notes of 1872 / Drosera / Down observations, 1873-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 56: 150r
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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


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Dates: 1873-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.