Revising ‘The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants’ • Writing ‘Insectivorous Plants’ • Beginning research on ‘The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom’ • Getting involved in the vivisection debate • The death of Charles Lyell
Writing tagged: ‘reviews’
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 22 • 1874’
Revising ‘Coral Reefs’ and ‘The Descent of Man’, continuing work on insectivorous plants, and a second dispute with St George Jackson Mivart.
Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2’
Virginia Woolf’s diaries for 1920–1924.
Book review: ‘Cuddy’ by Benjamin Myers
Something akin to a multi-media experience, mixing poetry, prayer, play-script, journal entries, and prose.
Book review: ‘The Fran Lebowitz Reader’
Humorous journalism.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 21 • 1873’
Back to botany.
Book review: ‘Buried’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.
Book review: ‘The Golden Mole’ by Katherine Rundell
Interesting facts about remarkable species.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 20 • 1872’
Publication of the final edition of ‘The Origin of Species’, and of ‘The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals’.
Book review: ‘W. G. Sebald in Context’ by Uwe Schütte (ed.)
A fascinating collection of academic essays about Sebald’s life, work and influences