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Full notes on editorial policy

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The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…

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  • … correspondence.   Dating of letters and identification of correspondents In …

Editorial policy and practice

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Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…

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  • … province of one or a few naturalists, detection and reliable identification are usually successful. …
  • … are in general also the least important ones. A doubtful identification is followed by a question …
  • … most difficult problems confronting the editors. As with the identification of the recipients, the …

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…

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  • … help of the Natural History Museum’s excellent bumblebee identification guide, she discovered that …

4.58 'Simian, savage' . . . drawings

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< Back to Introduction An anonymous satire in the Darwin archive has been descriptively titled ‘Simian, savage and savant’. Darwin on the right, elegantly dressed and carrying a top hat, represents the acme of civilisation. The central, nearly naked,…

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  • … apparently taken from drawings; they lack any dating, identification or clear attribution, but one …

4.17 'Figaro', unidentifiable 1871

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< Back to Introduction Yet another portrayal of Darwin as a tree-dwelling ape was published in The Figaro in October 1871, and titled ‘A Darwinian hypothesis’. The image survives in a torn page in the Darwin archive, but it has so far proved…

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  • … is signed with a monogram, which awaits decipherment and identification.   physical …

3.4 William Darwin, photo 1

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< Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - first to William and later to Leonard - for the fashioning of his image. William, the eldest, apparently took up photography c.1857, when still in his teens, and…

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  • … in this letter, allowing it to be precisely dated. This identification is strengthened by the fact …

History of the Project

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The Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974 by an American scholar, Frederick Burkhardt, with the help of Sydney Smith, a zoologist in the University of Cambridge (UK), and of Fred's wife, Anne Schlabach Burkhardt. They set out to locate all…

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  • … have the full date written on them by the sender – and the identification of unknown correspondents …

Intellectual capacities: From Caroline Kennard, 26 December 1881

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We might assume that among female admirers of Darwin’s work, many would have been disappointed by his views on the comparative intellectual capacities of the sexes expressed in The Descent of Man (1872). This was certainly true of the American feminist…

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  • … at the New England Women’s Club remained nameless. Her identification confounds expectations. Martha …

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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  • … Each entry in the transcript is followed by the editors’ identification of the book or article to …

Interview with Tim Lewens

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Dr Tim Lewens is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Organisms and artifacts (2004), which examines the language and arguments for design in biology and philosophy, and of…

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  • … or proponents of Darwinism . We don’t find this strong identification of a particular theory with …

Essay: Natural selection & natural theology

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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…

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  • … the original plurality of human species was drawn from the identification of some of the present …
  • … Lyell, and, if we mistake not, Bronn, still live. This identification, however, is now questioned by …
  • … been rashly thought, but is decidedly in its favor. If the identification were so perfect that no …

Search tips

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In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…

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  • … to letters as we find them, and only useful for internal identification within the Darwin …

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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  • … to his best friend, the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, for identification ( see the letter ). …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’.  Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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  • … inspired by Crüger’s work, and by Darwin’s continuing identification of insect pollinators in 1864 …

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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  • … bore ’. He now turned to Thiselton-Dyer for help with identification of a cryptogam and asked about …
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