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The Dublin Review, an influential Catholic periodical, applauded Darwin for stripping a potentially offensive subject of all offensiveness.

Mary Treat’s 1873 article Controlling Sex in Butterflies. In January 1872, having been asked for his opinion on her research, Darwin praised Treat’s research into butterfly diet and sex and encouraged her to publish her findings.

Darwin praises the work of Mary Treat, an entomologist from New Jersey. Her article on Drosera was referenced by Darwin in his 1875 publication Insectivorous Plants. As a published naturalist, Treat had already constructed a public profile for…

Darwin publicly thanks Lady Dorothy Nevill for providing orchid samples.

Darwin writes to Lady Dorothy Nevill to thank her for sending samples of orchids and other rare flowers from her hothouse. A well-known writer, hostess, horticulturalist and a subject of scandal when, in 1847, she was caught in a summerhouse with…

Darwin publicly acknowledges his son in law Richard Litchfield’s contribution to Expression on the subject of music.

Darwin writes to Henrietta voicing concern about her husband (Richard Litchfield’s) contribution to Expression going unreferenced.

Lucy Wedgwood’s work on Oxlips was acknowledged in Darwin’s Different Forms of Flowers but she was identified only as “a friend in Surrey”.