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2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
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- … statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest …
- … the anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor, then Keeper of the Museum, echoed his sentiments. Darwin …
- … The statues and busts of scientists in the Oxford museum were all presented over the years by …
- … of Boehm’s statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum, London, as the frontispiece. The statue …
- … geniuses of British science, flanking the entry to the museum court on the west. Professor Sir Henry …
- … it ‘would be seen practically by everyone that entered the museum’. This proposal was adopted, and …
- … extension of the building; it housed the Pitt Rivers Museum, which was devoted to the developing …
- … extensively employed on sculptures for the Oxford University Museum, and had become a close friend …
- … with Boehm, for the commission to sculpt the Natural History Museum statue of Darwin. Hope Pinker’s …
- … startling intrusion into the cathedral-like interior of the museum, where the hallowed sages of past …
- … series of skulls later exhibited in the central court of the museum to represent supposed racial …
- … physical location Oxford University Museum of Natural History accession or …
- … news that Boehm was to be given the Natural History Museum commission (Hope Pinker collection of …
- … 2 Dec. 1906, about a further commission for the Oxford Museum (ditto, HRHP/LPM/UVW49). Henry W. …
- … The Unveiling of the Statue of Sydenham in the Oxford Museum . . . with an Address by Sir Henry W. …
- … with William Flower, Director of the Natural History Museum in London, in 1895, about use of a …
- … the collection of Wallace’s papers in the Natural History Museum, London, Box 5, WPI/2/77. Report …
- … Walter F.R. Weldon, The Human Crania in the University Museum , pamphlet dated 25 May 1899, OUM …
- … 1899), pp. 7 and 9. ‘Unveiling the Darwin statue at the Museum’, Jackson’s Oxford Journal , 17 …
- … th Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum for 1899, p. 4. M.H. Spielmann, …
- … and K. Dorothea Ewart Vernon, A History of the Oxford Museum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), pp …
- … 1912), vol. 1, pp. 443–452. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series , …
- … collections at Oxford. Trevor Garnham, Oxford Museum: Deane and Woodward (London: Phaidon, 1992) …
- … 1999), pp. 62–90. University of Oxford, ‘The University Museum Conservation Plan’, drafted May 2012, …
- … Temple of Science: The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Oxford: …
2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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- … Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of …
- … of biological research. The Natural History Museum, originally the ‘British Museum …
- … transference of the scientific collections of the British Museum from Bloomsbury to South Kensington …
- … to the Prince of Wales. The latter was preeminent among the museum’s trustees, but his presence also …
- … its cynosural position in this entrance-hall of our National Museum of Natural History’ was not to …
- … rather, it was meant to inspire students who entered the museum with ‘the ideal according to which …
- … disingenuous, since the recently appointed director of the museum, William Flower, a friend of …
- … the Sunday and Bank Holiday crowds who soon poured into the museum. The freestanding, widely-spaced …
- … physical location Natural History Museum, London accession or collection number MMS ID …
- … record) copyright holder Natural History Museum originator of image Joseph …
- … references and bibliography ‘British Museum (Natural History)’, three volumes of photographs …
- … the statue of the late Charles Darwin in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington’, The …
- … cast of Boehm’s model. Entry for ‘Natural History Museum’ in F.H.W. Sheppard (ed.), Survey of …
- … of Portraits, Paintings and Sculpture at the Natural History Museum, London (London: Mansell for …
- … Biography. William Thomas Stearn, The Natural History Museum at South Kensington. A History of …
- … Lisa Hendry and Hayley Dunning ‘A history in pictures: the Museum’s Hintze Hall’, 2015, updated 2017 …
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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- … and her little daughter are visiting the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, and stop to …
- … ape in his facial features. However, it also refers to the Museum’s policy of mounting displays that …
- … 1893), p. 197. William Thomas Stearn, The Natural History Museum at South Kensington. A History of …
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
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- … Honorary Members and other patrons of the Ipswich Museum. The Ransome family was the main force …
- … natural science through the exhibits, and also through the museum’s library and lectures or classes …
- … study of natural history among the working classes’. The museum’s ethos was strongly religious and …
- … Ipswich, and he continued to lecture there and support the museum’s activities over a period of …
- … scientists of the day who had contributed to the Ipswich Museum enterprise, including Murchison, …
- … India proofs’, with profits from the sales going to the museum. The Gardeners’ Chronicle …
- … promotion of science in Ipswich were not restricted to the Museum and the portrait series: these …
- … 1851 amid great celebrations, he too became a patron of the Museum, and Henslow presented him with a …
- … public about developments in natural history, the Ipswich Museum project was also intended to …
- … Wellcome Library, London. Copies also exist in the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings, …
- … ‘Review. Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum. Published by George Ransome, F.L.S., …
- … 1851), p. 5. [John Ellor Taylor], A Guide to the Ipswich Museum (1871): copy in the archive of …
- … 240–287 (pp. 257–263). Steven J. Plunkett, ‘Ipswich Museum moralities in the 1840s and 1850s’, in …
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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- … in the city, in close collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, and in 1908 the …
- … Darwin centenary by giving a bronze bust of him to the Museum. The bust was commissioned from …
- … Charles Finney Cox, to the President of the Trustees of the Museum, Henry Fairfield Osborn, at an …
- … of the bust was accompanied by an exhibition at the Museum, illustrating Darwin’s life and his …
- … The installation of the bust in the American Museum of Natural History related closely to the museum …
- … Zoology. The Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Museum was the Harvard Professor William Morton …
- … was an especially interesting analysis. The displays in the Museum were redesigned to illustrate …
- … enlightenment of the lay public. As in the Natural History Museum in London a quarter of a century …
- … 1909, it is ironic that later organisational changes at the Museum led to a decision in 1960 to …
- … pp. 315f. ‘The Darwin celebration’, The American Museum Journal (March 1909). Edmund Otis Hovey, …
Edward Lumb
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Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
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- … son, William, went to the opening of the Blackmore museum in Salisbury , and there met Mr Blackmore …
1.17 Alphonse Legros drawing
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< Back to Introduction Alphonse Legros’s drawing of Darwin in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of three likenesses of him by this artist in different media, the others being a drypoint engraving and a medallion. Only the medallion is dateable, to 1881:…
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- … Alphonse Legros’s drawing of Darwin in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of three likenesses of him by …
- … portrait heads in metal point’. In fact, the Fitzwilliam Museum possesses also a portrait drawing by …
- … (lot 339). physical location Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge accession or …
- … references and bibliography Fitzwilliam Museum catalogue record. Timothy Wilcox, article on Legros …
Barnacles
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
Instinct and the Evolution of Mind
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…
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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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- … in Library of Institute. Perhaps Bailliere has it. British Museum Traite Elementair …
- … in which species are shown to be not immutable see Brit. Museum Collect. (Anonymous) Wartmann …
- … B. von Siebold 1833–50] Zoolog. Soc “Memoires du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle” (Cuvier Paper …
- … A. Downing Wiley & Putnam. 14 s . [Downing 1845] (Brit. Museum) (read) good H. Watson …
- … [ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ] Mem: du Museum [ Mémoires du Muséum d' …
- … [DAR 119: 18a] 1847. Jan 14 th Mem: du Museum [ Mémoires du Muséum d' …
- … de Genève ]. Tom I to 10. —— Annales du Museum [ Annales du Muséum d'Histoire …
- … 25. Dixon on Poultry [E. S. Dixon 1848] Memoires du Museum [ Mémoires du Muséum d' …
- … by Gaudin—with additions [Heer 1854]. Archives du Museum [ Archives du Muséum d' …
- … [Schouw 1852].— Feb. 19 th Nouvelles Annales du Museum d’Hist. Nat. [ Nouvelle Annales du …
- … III 1834. & IV 1835: Extracted March 18. Archives du Museum d’Hist. Nat. [ Archives du …
- … 88 Samuel Highley, proprietor of a scientific library, museum, and publishing company at 32 …
- … of marine Polyzoa in the collection of the British Museum. Edited by J. E. Gray. 2 pts. London …
- … 1825. Sur la domesticité des mammifères. Mémoires du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle 13: 405–55. …
- … über die Flora der Südseeinseln. Annalen der Wien Museum der Naturgeschichte 1: 129–90. …
- … of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology in London 2, …
- … of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology in London 2, …
- … Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: Ungulata Furcipeda …
- … expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum . London. *119: 23 Le …
- … Catalogue of British Hymenoptera in the British Museum . Pt I: Apidæ—Bees . Edited by John …
- … and Vespidæ, in the collection of the British Museum . London. [Abstract in DAR 205.11(2): 83–5 …
- … of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Economic Geology in London . …
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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- … University. Indeed, Rebecca Klarner, curator of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, has suggested that …
- … acquired by Nettie and Harry Buten, who founded a Wedgwood Museum at Merion, Pennsylvania, and was …
- … the Wedgwood firm in 1909, and is now in the Society’s museum in Philadelphia. Perhaps the purchase …
- … Cambridge. Other casts are in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Wedgwood collection, Barlaston) (WE …
Orchids
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
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- … visited the collection of glass flowers in the Harvard Museum of Natural History . These …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Bristowe, J. S. (2) British Museum (1) …
2.5 Wedgwood medallions, 2nd type
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< Back to Introduction Two identical oval medallions in green jasper in the Wedgwood Museum, portraying Darwin’s head in profile, are different from the rest. The portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal…
2.26 Linnean Society medal
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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…
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- … commissioned the statue of Darwin in the Oxford University Museum, successfully proposed that ‘the …
- … Society donated medals to Shrewsbury School, to the British Museum, and to the Fitzwilliam Museum, …
- … There is a photograph in the Natural History Museum (NHM 1456491, accessible via Bridgeman Images) …
- … Society medal. An undated plaque in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Wedgwood collection (WE.2358 …
- … of Portraits, Paintings and Sculpture at the Natural History Museum, London (London: Mansell for …
2.18 Montford, Carnegie bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1901 the immensely rich steel manufacturer and business magnate Andrew Carnegie commissioned Horace Montford for two bronze busts of Darwin. The exact circumstances of the commission are unknown, but Carnegie must have been…
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- … that one of Carnegie’s purchases was destined for his museum in Pittsburgh, and the other for Skibo …
- … Spencer by E. Onslow Ford) was transferred from the art museum to a sister institution, the Carnegie …
- … hand in hand. physical location Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh …
- … 2.2 copyright holder Carnegie Museum of Natural History originator …
- … records kindly supplied by Xianghua Sun of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Library. ‘A bust …
George Robert Waterhouse
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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … London the following year to become the first curator at the museum of the Zoological Society of …
- … for a post in the natural history department of the British Museum, following his discharge from the …
- … to their fossil collection. He remained at the British Museum until his retirement in 1880, but his …
- … an assistant keeper in the zoology department of the British Museum. Waterhouse suffered a …
1.9 Rajon, etching after Ouless
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< Back to Introduction This large and impressive etching by the French artist Paul Adolphe Rajon reproduces Ouless’s oil portrait of Darwin of 1875, probably on the basis of an agreement between painter and engraver. The ‘over-hardness’ of effect…
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- … lovers, however: an impression was acquired by the British Museum in 1878, and another was exhibited …
- … it to the Darwin Centenary exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, that same year. …
- … representing different states. The impression in the British Museum Department of Prints and …
- … in 1890. physical location Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Impressions with the …
- … copyright holder Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge originator of image Paul Adolphe Rajon …
2.12 Allan Wyon, Royal Society medal
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< Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial basis from 1890 onwards, as a way of recognising individual achievement in the scientific fields to which Darwin himself had contributed. The first scientist to be…
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- … this model, and another such cast is in the Natural History Museum. Allan Wyon was one …
- … at Cambridge, Times (24 June 1909), p. 10. British Museum (Natural History), Memorials of …
- … 6 (London: Spink and Son, 1917), pp. 11–12. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, exhibition Cambridge …
- … of Portraits, Paintings and Sculpture at the Natural History Museum, London (London: Mansell, 1995 …
George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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- … After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until …