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Visiting the Darwins

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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…'  In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister.  She described Charles…

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  • … As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…   Darwin often discouraged …

Descent

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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…

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  • … time away ‘ corresponding with a multitude of breeders & visiting them & the zoological …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’.  Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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  • … by a vote of ninety-two to forty-five. Visitors and visiting As was usual in periods …

4.43 'Illustrated London News' article

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< Back to Introduction In September 1887 the Illustrated London News reviewed G.T. Bettany’s popular biography of Darwin, and the reviewer took this opportunity to offer his own thoughts on the ‘domestic tranquillity’ and ‘unassuming modesty’ of…

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  • … in his last years. He is lost in thought at his desk; visiting his greenhouse, to examine a plant; …

Jane Gray

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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…

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  • … at Down (for her detailed description of that visit, see Visiting the Darwins). Jane had taken away …
  • … several days as guests at Down House in October 1868, and visiting again on their return journey in …

2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust

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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…

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  • … his visionary plan: to provide a research centre where visiting scientists from all nations could …

Cape of Good Hope

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'A most imposing barrier'

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  • … at the Cape of Good Hope and Darwin is looking forward to visiting John Herschel and to a short trip …

Bathurst, New South Wales

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Killed a platypus

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  • … officer on the first Beagle voyage (1826-30), about visiting him. …

4.56 'Larks' cartoon

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< Back to Introduction The humorous magazine Larks, which sold at a halfpenny, featured a cartoon titled Darwinism in 1893. A well-dressed woman and her little daughter are visiting the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, and stop to look at…

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  • … in 1893. A well-dressed woman and her little daughter are visiting the Natural History Museum in …

Interview with Randal Keynes

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Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…

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  • … the [Cambridge] University Library - in the Keynes Room! - visiting the Darwin Correspondence …

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of  Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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  • … Haeckel, and also a meeting with Herbert Spencer, who was visiting Darwin’s neighbour, Sir John …

Interview with Emily Ballou

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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…

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  • … again because he said that it was exceedingly well worth visiting: it was such a beautiful valley …

Detecting Darwin

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Who was Charles Darwin? What is he famous for? Why is he still important?

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  • … Pupils act as Darwin detectives, exploring clues about Darwin’s life and work. No prior knowledge …

Darwin’s first love

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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…

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  • … were sent while she and her older sister, Sarah, were visiting Brighton in January 1828 and …
  • … wished to see him, as Susan Darwin had reported while visiting Woodhouse in early 1835.  …

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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  • … – in one experiment comparing the strategy of bees visiting native and introduced species of peas of …
  • … be planted side by side but never seemed to cross. Bees were visiting the flowers but not effecting …

2.4 Wedgwood plaque

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< Back to Introduction Soon after Darwin’s death, a Wedgwood plaque in green jasper with a profile portrait of him was presented to Christ’s College, Cambridge, by his son George Darwin, who was himself a Cambridge don. It was set into the panelling…

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  • … rooms at the College were opened to delegates, many of them visiting Americans. Yet another cast, …

Darwin The Collector

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Look at nature more closely and create and record your own natural collections.

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  • … Activities provide an introduction to Charles Darwin, how and why he collected so many specimens …

Darwin’s introduction to geology

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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.

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  • … and the younger man traversed back inland by himself, visiting the cliff-encircled lake of Cwm Idwal …

Dining at Down House

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…

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  • … his regrets that his own ill health prevents him from visiting the Scottish medium, Daniel Dunglass …

Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007)

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Founding editor, Darwin Correspondence Project Fred, as he was known to all who worked with him, first conceived of a project to publish all of Darwin’s correspondence in 1974 on his retirement as President of the American Council of Learned Societies,…

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  • … alumni award for excellence, Columbia University, 1987 Visiting fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge …
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