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Expression
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Darwin's interest in emotional expression can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the different sounds and gestures among the peoples of Tierra del Fuego, and on his return from the voyage he started recording observations…
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- … Darwin sometimes referred to expression as ' an old hobby horse ' and even made light of …
4.11 'Fun' cartoon, 'A little lecture'
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< Back to Introduction ‘A little lecture by Professor D----n on the development of the horse’, a cartoon drawn by John Gordon Thomson for Fun magazine in July 1871, features ‘Professor’ Darwin addressing an audience of his ‘fellow monkeys’. His…
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From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
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Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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Life of Erasmus Darwin
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The Life of Erasmus Darwin (1879) was a curious departure for Darwin. It was intended as a biographical note to accompany an essay on Erasmus's scientific work by the German writer Ernst Krause. But Darwin became immersed in his grandfather's…
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- … Wheler, told the story of a visit to Newmarket during the horse racing season. 'In the middle …
- … “Dr. Darwin I am the Jockey who is to ride the favourite Horse tomorrow, & upon whom large bets …
- … my gratitude, make any bets you please against the favourite Horse, for we Jockies have settled he …
- … next day, & on his return thro’ Newmarket he asked which Horse had won, & was told that, to …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … experiments at Down, reporting on work with ‘ beastly horse chestnut roots ’ and testing for …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … as tendrils into stump Library of useful knowledge Horse, cow, sheep [Youatt 1831, 1834, 1837 …
- … [Bevan 1838] Harlaam Phys. & Medic. researches on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] …
- … 9. p. 229. “A comparative view of the form of the race-horse during past & present century. …
- … & Feb. number 1841. Karkeek on the geological History of the Horse [Karkeek 1841]. (not read.) …
- … Magazine ] to end of 1838. —— Youatt on the Horse [Youatt 1831] Library of Useful K. …
- … Pallas on Variation [Pallas 1780], on Ass [Pallas 1777b], on horse-tailed Taurus [Pallas 1777a]). …
- … von Humboldt 1845–8]. Vol. 1 Nov. 12 Martin on the Horse [W. C. L. Martin 1845b] —— …
- … Coast of Devon [Gosse 1853]. —— Lawrence on the Horse [J. Lawrence 1829] 21 Tournefort …
- … the form and character of the English racer and saddle-horse during last and present …
- … Karkeek, William Floyd. 1841. The geological history of the horse. Veterinarian n.s. 14: 25–31, …
- … *119: 23; 119: 23b Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses; his …
- … Memoirs of E. Ludlow, Esq.; lieutenant general of the horse . 3 vols. Vivay. [Other eds.] …
- … 119: 16a ——. 1845b. The history of the horse: its origin … with an appendix on the …
- … a series of highly-finished engravings representing the horse and the dog . London. *119: 3v. …
- … *128: 157; 128: 22 Youatt, William. 1831. The horse; with a treatise on draught. …
Frank Chance
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The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
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- … from Pallas that in Siberia the coat of the domestic horse becomes paler in the winter, though even …
- … change of colour has ever been observed to take place in the horse in winter; and therefore, as an …
- … is so, as all shades of colour are strongly inherited by the horse. Nor is this form of inheritance, …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
4.51 Frederick Holder 'Life and Work'
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< Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American naturalist Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1891, sought to present him as ‘an example to the youth of all lands’ (p. v). Thus ‘our hero’ was shown to have…
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- … the story. We see Darwin ‘finding a vampire bat biting a horse’ in Chile, ‘shooting at a condor’ in …
Charles Darwin: the Beagle letters
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This volume contains the complete texts of all the letters that the young naturalist Charles Darwin wrote and received while sailing round the world on the surveying ship the Beaglebetween 1831 and 1836. They start with letters written as a new and…
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- … a city, and learn how to catch ostriches from a running horse. We witness slavery, political …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was …
Darwin on marriage
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On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted; they were married on 29 January 1839. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of…
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- … else possible[6] in small house, near Regents Park—keep horse—take Summer tours Collect[7] specimens …
Philip Gidley King
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King was born in Parramatta, New South Wales on 31 October 1817, son of Captain Phillip Parker King and Harriett (Lethbridge). His grandfather, also named Philip Gidley King, had been governor of New South Wales. As a child, King travelled to England with…
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- … South Wales. King was initially in charge of the cattle and horse studs and subsequently …
Darwin on childhood
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On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood. Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…
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- … the canal by the towing rope, by going wrong side of the horse..–– I had greatest horror of this …
Variation under domestication
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A fascination with domestication Throughout his working life, Darwin retained an interest in the history, techniques, practices, and processes of domestication. Artificial selection, as practiced by plant and…
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- … selection. For example, you could visit a dog, cat, or horse breeder. Before visiting the breeder, …
British Association meeting 1860
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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … hybridism, as was seen in the closely-allied forms of the horse and the ass. Mr. Darwin’s …
Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties
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The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…
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- … allies. The great speed but slight endurance of the race horse, the unwieldy strength of the …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turcoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race …
