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2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
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< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 , entry for …
4.45 'Puck' cartoon 2
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< Back to Introduction In Reason Against Unreason, a cartoon published shortly before Darwin’s death, the American humorous magazine Puck had celebrated him as the embodiment of ‘Reason’. Now, a month after his death, an imaginative drawing in the…
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- … Graetz kindly provided by Susan Liberator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Ohio …
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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- … and Kirkes 1848] 17 th Thompson’s Birds of Ireland [W. Thompson 1842] Part I. Sept. …
- … 1749]. Marc 3 d Thompson’s Nat. Hist of Ireland [Thompson 1849–56]. Vol. I. II & 3 …
- … [J. F. Davis 1852] March 5. Sir F. Heads Fortnight in Ireland [F. B. Head 1852b]. Ap. …
- … of George Berkeley, D. D., late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To which is added, an account …
- … eds.] 128: 3 ——. 1852b. A fortnight in Ireland . London. 128: 5 Head, …
- … [Savage, M. W.]. 1845. The Falcon family; or, young Ireland . London. 119: 17b …
- … 119: 17a Thompson, William. 1842. The birds of Ireland (family Fringillidæ). Annals and …
- … 21a ——. 1849–56. The natural history of Ireland . 4 vols. London. [Vols. 1–3 in Darwin …
Frances Power Cobbe
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Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at home, at Newbridge House, county Dublin, except for two years at a school in Brighton: she hated the school. After she left, she kept house for her mother and father, and after her mother's death for…
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- … Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at home, at Newbridge House, county Dublin, except …
Mary Everest Boole
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Mary Everest was born in 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, daughter of Reverend Thomas Everest. Her uncle was George Everest, Surveyor General of India, after whom Mount Everest is named. Her family moved to France seeking to improve her father’s ill…
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- … parish, teaching in Sunday school. During a visit to Ireland when she was 18 she met George Boole, a …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … hoped to produce a disease-resistant variety that would rid Ireland of famine. Several …
2.24 Herbert Hampton statue, Lancaster
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< Back to Introduction The monument to Queen Victoria in Dalton Square, Lancaster, is one of many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public projects that featured Darwin among the great men of history – often, as here, in the context of…
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- … the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 1851–1951’, online at https:/ …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … concerned however, after severely damaged potato crops in Ireland brought hardship, with many …
- … be appreciated. He tried to interest the chief secretary for Ireland, William Edward Forster, and …
- … same time maintain intact, the rental of England—and to Ireland it would mean peace.’ Torbitt’s plan …
1.19 John Collier, oil in NPG
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< Back to Introduction Very soon after the delivery of Collier’s portrait of Darwin to the Linnean Society, Darwin’s eldest son William decided to commission a replica to add to the family collection of pictures, which he had inherited. The new…
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- … Portraits of Celebrated Characters of England, Scotland and Ireland (London: George Bell, 1897), …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … the next curate, Mr Robinson, who has suddenly departed for Ireland for a month. Darwin says the …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … Darwin first voiced concern when the curate absconded to Ireland for three months, leaving Down …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … near Preston in Lancashire, north Hampshire, Devonshire, and Ireland. He suggested that Frankland …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … account for the topography and drainage system of southern Ireland ( see letter from J. B. Jukes, …
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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- … one from Cambridge. When Robert Ball, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, praised George’s work, Darwin was …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … England, and not at all known to have been ever committed in Ireland – to wit, that of – “Priests …
