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Darwin’s species notebooks: ‘I think . . .’
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I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by the delightful number of new views, which have been coming in, thickly & steadily, on the classification & affinities & instincts of animals—bearing…
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- … symbol of evolutionary thinking. For Darwin, however, the Tree of Life was an attempt to work out a …
A tale of two bees
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Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…
4.46 'Puck' cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction In 1885 Darwin made yet another posthumous appearance in the New York satirical magazine Puck – again in a religious context. ‘SHEOL’ referred to the recently published Revised edition of the Bible, which modified the text of…
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- … and Tom Paine. John Stuart Mill is leaning against a tree, apparently stirred by his own thoughts, …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … Varieties are the latest offshoots of the genealogical tree in ‘an unlineal’ order; species, those …
- … of time. How well the simile of a genealogical tree illustrates the main ideas of Darwin’s …
- … of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely …
- … lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this …
- … to groups. Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now …
- … and modified descendants. From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and …
- … thin, straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been …
- … so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and …
- … could ever have proceeded from the seeds of the same tree. Innumerable other examples could be given …
Beauty and the seed
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One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
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- … that the gaily-coloured fruit of the spindle-wood tree and the scarlet berries of the holly are …
- … and fixed to red valvæ,—and the seeds of a fine small tree related to Acacia or Inga, which also for …
- … who had found more examples of the phenomenon including ‘a tree, probably belonging to the Mimoseae, …
- … to Hooker: I enclose 3 seeds of the Mimoseous tree, of which the pods open & wind …
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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- … legs, while their mother barked at them in agony from the tree.’ Behind the untroubled figure of the …
Mauro Galetti: profile of an ecologist
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Mauro Galetti solved Darwin’s puzzle of the ‘bright seeds’. This is what he told us about becoming an ecologist.
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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- … for perseverance & another for boldness in climbing a low tree.–– My supposed admirer was old …
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
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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- … old age, which creeps slily upon one, like moss upon a tree, and wrinkles one all over like a baked …
- … Coniston, Marshall regretted not having asked him to plant a tree in the garden and requested him to …
- … would send an acorn from one of the ‘children’ of a cork-tree grown from an acorn sown by his father …
4.15 George Cruikshank, comic drawing
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< Back to Introduction A sheet of comic drawings titled ‘Comparative anatomy à la Darwin’, is signed by George Cruikshank junior, who has been variously identified as the great-nephew or the illegitimate son of his more famous namesake. Unfortunately…
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- … top hat and shakes hands politely with an ape hanging from a tree on the other side of the design, …
4.30 'La Petite Lune', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction La Petite Lune was a sister paper of La Lune Rousse, and was published, edited and illustrated by André Gill, through 1878-9. It featured a series of caricatures titled ‘Les hommes illustrés’, to which this belongs. Gill again…
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- … this time swinging nonchalantly from the branch of a tree labelled ‘Arbre de la Science’. Darwin is …
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … now a dweller in the blue beyond, squats on the branch of a tree, protectively embracing an …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Florence Caroline Dixie
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On October 29th 1880, Lady Florence Dixie wrote a letter to Charles Darwin from her home in the Scottish Borders; “Whilst reading the other day your very interesting account of A Naturalist’s Voyage round the world,” she said, “I came across a passage…of…
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- … she explained to Darwin , “attacked me & followed me up a tree”. “In self-defence,” she said, …
Perfect copper-plate hand: From Adolf Reuter, 30 May 1869
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My favourite correspondent was chosen not because he is a brilliant conversationalist or a significant scientific thinker – but after a decade of reading a series of challenging hand writings, my favourite is the one who wrote in a perfect copper-plate…
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- … one letter came a delicate ink sketch of a vine grafted to a tree. On another occasion, he sent a …
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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- … fruit by merely grafting a bud or cutting of a pear or apple tree upon another plant of the same …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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- … In his private notebooks, he modeled evolution after a tree of life or coral that was " …
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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- … with drops of water looking like quicksilver so that the tree quite glistened. … The drops seemed to …
- … on leaf motion in Averrhoa bilimbi (cucumber tree) and Desmodium gyrans (telegraph plant). …
- … African elephants becoming drunk on the fruit of the Umganu tree, the temperance campaigner Warren …
