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4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire

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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…

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  • … letters: DCP-LETT-9888 (15 March 1875). Darwin’s letters inviting Fiske to Down House: DCP-LETT …

School Visits

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BOOK NOW FOR OUR SCHOOLS WORKSHOPS The Darwin Correspondence Project are inviting schools to book onto a series of exciting educational workshops starting in September, to coincide with our ‘Darwin in Conversation’ exhibition. Each school session…

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  • … WORKSHOPS The Darwin Correspondence Project are inviting schools to book onto a series of …

2.27 William Couper bust, New York

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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…

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  • … of the intended celebration and gift of the bust, inviting subscriptions; it is signed by the …

Evolutionary views of human nature

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From April 2010 until 31 March 2013, the Darwin Correspondendence Project ran an major international research project 'Exploring Evolutionary Views of Human Nature through Darwin’s Correspondence'.   Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research…

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  • … a major international conference on Darwin and Human Nature, inviting scholars in history, history …

Origin

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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…

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  • … of cross-breds’, he told W. B. Tegetmeier on 8 September, inviting him to take any of the pure birds …

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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  • … quarrel – and certainly in that view – no fairer or more inviting opportunity could have been …
  • … certainly committed “Intentional injustice” by not inviting those Malays to get up Caucuses of …
  • … – eke their personnel – would be very finitely inviting. VIII “I …
  • … with mosquitos. The Malay village was infinitely more inviting.” VIII “Blessed is he who …

Essay: Evolutionary teleology

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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY When Cuvier spoke of the ‘combination of organs in such order that they may be in consistence with the part which the animal has to play in Nature,’ his opponent, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, rejoined, ‘I know nothing of…

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  • … nomenclature, requiring new definitions (as he avers), inviting misunderstanding, and leaving the …
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