Article ID: CBB859310379

Emily Lawless and Charles Darwin: an Irish mystery (2016)

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While no original autograph letters between the Hon. Miss Emily Lawless and Charles Darwin are known, Darwin was impressed by her observations and encouraged her to submit to Nature a manuscript account of fertilization of plants. This manuscript cannot be traced, nor can her note hypothesizing about the role of the transparent burnet moth in pollination in The Burren, County Clare, which apparently prompted Darwin to make contact with her.

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Authors & Contributors
Nelson, E. Charles
DeArce, Miguel
Craig R. Macadam
Hugh B. Feeley
Andrew B. T. Smith
Alberto Ballerio
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of Literature and Science
Historical Records of Australian Science
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Historical Series
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Otago University Press
Basilisken-Presse
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Botany
Natural history
Entomology
Horticulture
Evolution
Societies; institutions; academies
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Wright, Edward Perceval
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Harvey, William Henry
Tyndall, John
Macreight, Daniel Chambers
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Ireland
Great Britain
Dublin (Ireland)
Australia
Micronesia
Melanesia
Institutions
Trinity College Dublin
Natural History Society of Dublin
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