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German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … The album from the Netherlands was more democratic with a range of people, including several women, …
- … of science, & remember their generous sympathy. ( Letter to A. A. van Bemmelen, 12 February …
- … home, Down House , in Kent. They are made available through a collaboration with English Heritage …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … Belt, Thomas (15) Bemmelen, A. A. van (2) …
- … Bok, E. W. (1) Bolhuis, Jan van (1) …
- … J. S. (66) Burg, C. L. van der (2) …
- … Edmund (1) Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus (14) …
- … V. Masson et fils (1) Van Dyck, W. T. (2) …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … red velvet with silver embossing. The frontispiece contains a mistake about Darwin’s age: it states …
- … in size, being small cartes de visite, displayed four to a page. Images: © English …
- … album are also included. Accompanying the album was a handwritten list of the 217 people …
- … professionals. The album included several women ( see a list of people in the album with …
- … Society) was chosen to co-ordinate the initiative, and a letter was circulated to potential …
- … the president and secretary of the society, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen and Huibert Johannes Veth: …
- … and esteem, not for any value it can have for you, but as a proof, which we are persuaded cannot but …
- … fallen on fertile soil in the Netherlands. ( Letter from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 …
- … were known to Darwin through earlier correspondence. As a students, Jan Constantijn Costerus and his …
- … friends so prized Darwin’s reply that they sent him a photograph of the two of them with Darwin’s …
- … Hoek followed up with another work describing Balanus (a genus of acorn barnacles), Darwin …
- … of Descent and Expression , Hermanus Hartogh Heys van Zouteveen, went further and sent …
- … used in preparing the second edition. He also sent Darwin a translation of some of his annotations …
- … where published ( Letter to Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 18 February 1874 ) …
- … back with his observations and Darwin recorded them in a footnote in Descent . Finally, most …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … Apeldoorn 4 Ankum H.J. van (Hendrik Jan) Professor of …
- … 6 Asperen P. van Apothecary Velp …
- … 10 Beemen Dr. J.H. van (Jacob Hendrik) Med. A art. obst. Doct 56 …
- … 11 Beyma Thoe Kingma Jonkheer Mr. C. L. van (Coert Lambertus) Burgomaster …
- … 15 may 1882 Lemmer 12 Bemmelen A.A. van (Adriaan …
- … 13 Bemmelen Dr J.M. van. (Jacob Maarten) Professor of Chemistry at Leijden …
- … Doetinchem 30 Kallenberg van den Bosch R.J.A. (Reijer Jan …
- … 41 Burg Dr E. A. van der (Eduard Alexander) Lecturer …
- … Leiden 42 Burg P. van der Nijmegen …
- … 47 Calker Dr F. van Sub-director and Lecturer at the …
- … 48 Cappelle Dr H. van (Herman) Inspector of Lunatic …
- … Haarlem 49 Cappelle H. van jun. (Herman) Phil.nat.stud …
- … 58 Dissel Dr E.D.C. van(Etiene Daniel Cartier) Physician …
- … Rotterdam 62 Eeghen A.W. van (Anne Willem) Treasurer to …
- … 159 Riemsdijk Dr. A.D. van (Adriaan Daniël) Utrecht …
- … Montreux 170 Scheer A.zn Dr. J. van der Med. Chir. et …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 4 Ankum H.J. van (Hendrik Jan) Professor of Zoölogy and Comparative Anatomy …
- … 6 Asperen P. van Apothecary Velp …
- … 10 Beemen Dr. J.H. van (Jacob Hendrik) Med. A art. obst. Doct 56 …
- … Nijmegen Doctor. In the list it says J.R. van Beemen but there is only one van Beemen who …
- … 11 Beyma Thoe Kingma Jonkheer Mr. C. L. van (Coert Lambertus) Burgomaster …
- … 12 Bemmelen A.A. van (Adriaan Anthony) Director of the Rotterdam Zoological …
- … 13 Bemmelen Dr J.M. van. (Jacob Maarten) Professor of Chemistry at Leijden …
- … (Leather tanner) 30 Kallenberg van den Bosch R.J.A. (Reijer Jan …
- … Amsterdam This must be Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn. We can only guess …
- … 41 Burg Dr E. A. van der (Eduard Alexander) Lecturer …
- … 42 Burg P. van der Nijmegen …
- … 47 Calker Dr F. van Sub-director and Lecturer at the …
- … 62 Eeghen A.W. van (Anne Willem) Treasurer to the Amsterdam Royal Zoological …
- … 159 Riemsdijk Dr. A.D. van (Adriaan Daniël) Utrecht …
- … 170 Scheer A.zn Dr. J. van der Med. Chir. et art. obst. doct. …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … spent completing Forms of flowers , his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the …
- … of bloom, each of these projects would culminate in a major publication. Darwin’s botany was …
- … by his engagement to Sara Sedgwick, an American from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The …
- … He returned to his alma mater in November to hear a Latin oration composed specially for the …
- … the fertility of individual flowers and plants across a range of common species, such as the …
- … pleases me.’. Darwin dedicated the book to Gray, ‘as a small tribute of respect and affection’. He …
- … to you.’ Drawing his separate publications together into a larger whole enabled Darwin to advance …
- … measure: ‘it might then be highly beneficial to [a plant] that the same flower or the same …
- … I believe it is of value, it is not likely that more than a few hundred copies w d . be sold’. His …
- … waxy coating on the leaves and fruit was, like dimorphism, a well-known botanical characteristic …
- … I am now going to continue my observations.’ He requested a large number of plants from Hooker on …
- … who wrote on 16 July , ‘assisting you is a relief in the general monotony of routine. I am …
- … plants prevents injury from salt-water—& I believe with a few prevents injury from pure water …
- … continue the observations. ‘I got out within 2 minutes of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on …
- … The drops seemed to stick closely to the leaves and required a tolerable shake’. Darwin gained …
- … tree) and Desmodium gyrans (telegraph plant). ‘He is a good fellow but nurses a private ambition …
- … 1877 ). At Down House, Darwin and Francis devised a method of recording leaf motion for …
- … over time: ‘Bristle was gummed to 1 Cot. & beyond it a triangular bit of card was fixed & in …
- … method effectively transferred the movement of leaflets to a piece of blotting paper; a pencil …
- … the production. Darwin thanked the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : …
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