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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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- … G. S. (1) Anderson, James (1) …
- … Frederic (1) Bateman, James (1) …
- … Buckley, A. B. (21) Buckman, James (2) …
- … Burn, Robert (1) Burningham, James (1) …
- … C., W. S. (1) Caird, James (9) …
- … Carter, R. B. (2) Cartmell, James (1) …
- … H. (1) Crichton-Browne, James (40) …
- … Crocq, Jean (1) Croll, James (16) …
- … Dawson, J. W. (1) Dawson, James (2) …
- … Dickie, George (3) Dickson, James (1) …
- … Dixon, E. S. (2) Dixon, James (2) …
- … Druitt, Thomas (3) Drummond, James (a) (5) …
- … Edwards, [– ?] (1) Egan, James (2) …
- … Fraser, George (3) Fraser, James (1) …
- … Archibald (12) Geikie, James (13) …
- … Society of London (18) Gibb, James (1) …
- … J. M. (2) Grant, James (3) Grant, R. …
- … Heckel, Édouard (7) Hector, James (1) …
- … Hewitt, Edward (4) Heywood, James (1) …
- … Rowland (b) (1) Hilton, James (1) …
- … Humphry, G. M. (1) Hunt, James (a) (1) …
- … Jacobson, Miss (1) James, Constantin (1) …
- … Lambert, C. S. (1) Lamont, James (4) …
- … William (1) Martineau, James (1) …
- … Pagan, A. C. (1) Paget, James (34) …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … 1880 and in an abusive letter about Darwin in the St James’s Gazette on 8 December. Krause …
- … 1881 ). However, some requests were inescapable. When James Paget wrote on 1 June to invite …
- … of wind transport in the growth of soil, while his brother James Geikie told Darwin on 10 October …
- … to raise money for the Belfast potato-blight researcher James Torbitt; Fritz Müller was offered £100 …
Hanover Square, London
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Screaming under chloroform
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … children Crichton-Browne, James 20 May …
- … nodding Crichton-Browne, James 19 May 1869 …
- … Crichton-Browne, James 15 March 1870 …
- … blushing Crichton-Browne, James 18 March …
- … blushing Crichton-Browne, James 3 April …
- … June 1872] New University Club, St. James's Street, S.W., London, …
- … Heath, England Paget, James 9 …
- … 3 Sept 1870 Conservative Club, St James' St, London, England …
- … Theodore Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 …
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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- … to Borneo [Keppel 1846] 31. Fox’s Hist of James 2 d . [Fox 1808] June 23 d Guizot …
- … (amusing) 27 Abbott Travels from Khiva to Heraut [James Abbott 1843] (very good) Nov. …
- … 171] Pagets Travels in Hungary & Transylvania [John Paget 1839]— account of Dogs like …
- … [Haydon 1853] (very interesting) —— 25. Sir James Brooks Private Letters [Brooke 1853] …
- … Empire [Huc 1855] Feb 16 th Pagets Hungary [John Paget 1839] —— Bechsteins …
- … 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology [James Paget 1853] Ch 1–3 & Last …
- … notes for both William Bennett’s edition (1837) and for James Rennie’s edition (1833) of Gilbert …
- … de Neuchâtel . 47 Possibly a slip for James Abbott, Narrative of a journey …
- … This paper has not been identified. It is possible that James Wilson’s work on the origin of …
- … referrred to in Darwin’s reading notebooks Abbott, James. 1843. Narrative of a journey from …
- … by Mary Howitt. London. 119: 15b Anderson, James. 1785. An account of the present state …
- … Dominique François Jean. 1839. Historical eloge of James Watt … Translated … with additional …
- … Harriet Martineau. London. 128: 3 Audubon, John James Laforest. 1831–9. Ornithological …
- … and Sark. London. *119: 6v. Backhouse, James. 1843. A narrative of a visit to the …
- … methods of catching them . With notes by the translator [James Rennie]. London. *119: 7v. …
- … . Paris. [Darwin Library.] 119: 19a Bolton, James. 1794–6. Harmonia ruralis; or, an …
- … America. 2 vols. London. 119: 7a Boswell, James. 1831. The life of Samuel Johnson … …
- … trees . Edinburgh. 119: 7a, 13a Bowerbank, James Scott. 1840. A history of the fossil …
- … By Currer Bell. 3 vols. London. 128: 21 Brooke, James. 1853. Private letters of Sir …
- … from the vicinity of the river Congo. Appendix 5 of Tuckey, James Kingston, Narrative of an …
- … Egypt and Syria . London. 119: 4a Bruce, James. 1790. Travels to discover the …
- … Edinburgh and London. 128: 25 Bunbury, Charles James Fox. 1848. Journal of a residence …
- … . London. [Other eds.] *119: 3v.; 119: 5a Dana, James Dwight. 1849. Geology . Vol. 10 …
- … Devereux, Earls of Essex, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., 1540–1646 . …
- … of England 15: 76–88. *128: 177 Duncan, James. 1841. The natural history of exotic …
- … . London. [Darwin Library.] *128: 167 [Ferrier, James Frederick]. 1838. An introduction …
- … pts. Salem, Mass. [Darwin Library.] *119: 23v. Paget, James. 1853. Lectures on surgical …
Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
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- … and William Shaen, with leading medical men, such as James Paget, and with the influential …
2.1 Thomas Woolner bust
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< Back to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him that reflected an important transition in his status in the later 1860s. In the 1840s–1850s Darwin had been esteemed within scientific circles as one among…
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- … references and bibliography Sir James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of the human form’, Quarterly Review …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … had been criticised from quite a different angle when James Clerk Maxwell discussed the limits of …
- … an individual would, when received by the Belfast merchant James Torbitt, become a weapon in a …
- … which shall hunt it to the death’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 ). Darwin beat an …
- … to consider Torbitt an untrustworthy fanatic ( letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 ). …
- … Darwin sought the best medical care. On 30 May, the surgeon James Paget advised complete rest for …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … In the end, following the advice of the physician James Paget, he removed the discussion in …
