darwin published the different forms of flowers on plants of the same species in 1844.
darwin published the different forms of flowers on plants of the same species in 1844.
what book did darwin publish in 1844?
the different forms of flowers on plants of the same species
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wallace wrote his paper "on the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type" at ternate in february 1858 and sent it to darwin with a request to send it on to lyell. darwin received it on 18 june 1858, and wrote to lyell that "your words have come true with a vengeance... forestalled" and "if wallace had my ms. sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract!" while wallace had not asked for publication, darwin would, "of course, at once write and offer to send [it] to any journal" that wallace chose. he sadly added that "all my originality, whatever it may amount to, will be smashed". lyell's immediate response urged darwin to publish his own ideas, and in his reply of 25 june darwin agreed that he could point to his own "essay" of 1844 which hooker had read in 1847, and a letter to asa gray of 1857 showing that he was still developing the ideas, "so that i could most truly say and prove that i take nothing from wallace. i should be extremely glad now to publish a sketch of my general views in about a dozen pages or so. but i cannot persuade myself that i can do so honourably... i would far rather burn my whole book than that he or any man should think that i had behaved in a paltry spirit", also requesting that hooker be invited to give a second opinion. darwin was overwrought by a deepening crisis of illness of his baby son charles waring darwin, who died of scarlet fever on 28 june. on the morning of the 29th he acknowledged hooker's letters, writing "i cannot think now", then that night he read the letters, and though "quite prostrated", got his servant to take to hooker wallace's essay, the letter to asa gray and the "essay" of 1844, leaving matters in the hands of lyell and hooker.
on the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection