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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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… Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
… "A child of God" (1) …
… (1) Admiralty, Lords of the (1) Agassiz, …
… J. L. (3) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1) …
… (1) Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1) …
… D. T. (8) Anthropological Society, Vienna (1) …
… Blytt, Axel (2) Board of the Treasury (minutes) (1) …
… Cecil, S. A. (1) Chairman of Highway Board (1) …
… W. J. R. (1) Council, Royal Society of London (1) …
… Annie (7) Down Friendly Society (3) …
… Eck, F. A. (1) Edinburgh Royal Medical Society (1) …
… Margaret (1) Franklin Society (1) …
… Isidore (2) Geological Society (1) …
… (3) Kent Church Penitentiary Society (1) …
… (21) Kippist, Richard Linnean Society (1) …
… Librarian (2) Librarian, Royal Geographical Society (1) …
… Institute (1) President, Royal College of Physicians (1) …
… Rouse, R. C. M. (1) Royal College of Physicians (1) …
… Soc. (2) secretary of R. Soc Arts (1) …

2.19 Montford, bust at the Royal Society

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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s marble bust of Darwin at the Royal Society, dating from 1898, derives from his bronze statue at Shrewsbury. It was normal for sculptors to re-use their models in this way for the creation of busts and…

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… to Introduction Horace Montford’s marble bust of Darwin at the Royal Society, dating from …
… to re-use their models in this way for the creation of busts and statuettes, in order to capitalise …
… learned societies and private collectors for the likenesses of famous men, and attract new …
… had married Katherine Euphemia (Effie) Wedgwood, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood; Hensleigh was …
… 1 st Baron Bridges, who presented the bust to the Royal Society, of which he was a Fellow, in …
… apparently exhibited at an ‘At-Home’ gathering of the Society on 23 January 1902, but then returned …
… 1905, and also one of Lord Farrer’s bust now at the Royal Society. physical …
… kindly supplied by Ellen Embleton, Picture Curator of the Royal Society, from the Society’s records. …
… and NLB/23/1/865). Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of …

Funding

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The Darwin Correspondence Project has been made possible by generous funding from the following institutions: • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation [[{"fid":"475","view_mode":"default","type":"media"…

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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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… < Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial …
… Alfred Russel Wallace, ‘For his independent origination of the theory of the origin of species by …
… Huxley in 1894 – were also chosen as close associates of Darwin in the genesis and defence of …
… The presentation ceremony usually took place at the Royal Society’s annual banquet on Saint Andrew’s …
… Cambridge which marked that epoch, the then President of the Royal Society, Sir Archibald Geikie, …
… of Cambridge University, had been Secretary of the Royal Society at the time when the medal was …
… ‘Bronze medallion’ by Wyon in the collection of the Royal Society must have been cast from this …
… into archaeology, and he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1889. However, despite …
… his dates of birth and death, MDCCCIX and MDCCCLXXXII. The Royal Society’s catalogue of medals …
… Library, Add. MS 7651/8/1/No. 9106, p. 48, no. 601: ‘Royal Society: Darwin 1890 Medallist Allan Wyon …

Climbing plants

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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…

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… in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his …
… easy plant to raise in pot ’. Gray immediately sent seeds of the two plants he had himself used to …
… angulatus , [ Sicyos angulatus ; bur cucumber]—also of a more genteel Cucurbitacea, …
… these, especially upon the first, I made my observations of tendrils coiling to the touch ’. …
… interrupted by his poor health. He did not lose his sense of humour, though, and told his best …
… Charles Darwin”; for I cannot think what has come over me of late; I always suffered from the …
… Darwin’s journal for 1863 resolutely records each chapter of Variation as he finished writing it …
… June 1863, Darwin reported to Gray that although the seeds of Sicyos failed to germinate, he had …
… in another respect, namely the incessant rotatory movement of the leading shoots, which bring the …
… I will perhaps write a letter to you for the chance of its being worth inserting in Silliman or …
… vine Cissus discolor that Hooker had sent from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He concluded, ‘ …
… a little paper on these movements ’. Clearly, the seeds of another ‘interruption’ to Variation …
… he could publish his opus. The Journal of the Linnean Society seemed the obvious choice, and yet …
… for if too expensive for Linn. Soc. I wd send it to Royal Soc.; though I shd. prefer the former ’. …
… an excerpt from it was read by the secretary of the Linnean Society, Frederick Currey , on 2 …
… June 1865 in a double issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ). In spite of his …
… publication and appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) in November 1866. …

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 April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
… were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119) …
… a few odd entries, the record ends. Both notebooks consist of two different sections, headed ‘Books …
… information more widely available. A previous transcript of the reading notebooks (Vorzimmer 1977) …
… Darwin’s copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of …
… Library 1 Cambridge. Library 2 Royal Coll of Surgeons [DAR *119: 1] …
… Sillimans Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay …
… on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] Owen has it. & Royal Soc Lord Brougham Dissert. …
… Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
… Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
… [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
… 1837] Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian …
… Natural History Society ]— read Edinburgh. Royal [ Transactions of the Royal Society of …
… Agricult. Journ [ Annals of Agriculture, and other useful arts ] Highland Agricult. Journal …
… many facts List of Books at end of Catalogue of Royal Soc. [Royal Society of London 1839]— …
… Silliman’s Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts ] all from 1 to 38 vol. except vol 26, …
… Sillimans Journal [ American Journal of Science and Arts ] vol. 44 p. 1 to 216 —— vol …
… Despatches [Wellesley 1834–9] —— 17 th Arts & Manufactures. Christian K.. Soc [Society …
… 30 th Silliman [ American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Vol 3. Part (entered) in Alph. …
… de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres, et Arts de Lyon ] n. ser. Tom 2 d . …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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… the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and plants …
… projects came to fruition in 1865, including the publication of his long paper on climbing plants in …
… lengthy discussion written by George Douglas Campbell, duke of Argyll, appeared in the religious …
… of the year, Darwin was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The …
… end of April; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and J. D. …
… ready to submit his paper on climbing plants to the Linnean Society of London, and though he was …
… seconded Darwin’s nomination for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had …
… origin of species ( Origin ), which the Council of the Royal Society had failed to include among …
… fever), and was wondering whether to send it to the Linnean Society, or to the Royal Society of …
… An abstract of the paper was read before the Linnean Society on 2 February, and in April Darwin …
… that he needed for references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 …
… suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, that he …
… the duke of Argyll, had delivered an address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh criticising Origin …
… find himself in December elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ‘Here is a …
… against John Scott, who had worked under Balfour at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, was …
… plants’ in the American Journal of Science and Arts , in which he described Darwin’s botanical …
… Hooker had been offered the directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( letter from F. H. …

1.20 Leopold Flameng etching, after Collier

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< Back to Introduction Almost as soon as Collier’s portrait of Darwin was put on display at the Linnean Society in 1882, requests for permission to reproduce it flooded in, from book and print publishers. Collier himself often felt, with some…

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… Almost as soon as Collier’s portrait of Darwin was put on display at the Linnean Society in …
… given that this copyright was shared with the Linnean Society and the National Portrait Gallery. He …
… were produced for illustrated publications harmed the sale of the one print he had approved – an …
… entries implied that it was taken from the 1883 version of the portrait, i.e. the one commissioned …
… However, this seems open to doubt, given the involvement of the Linnean Society in its production, …
… this print emulated Rajon’s etching from the portrait of Darwin by Ouless, and it too aspired to be …
… impression with these ‘remarques’ is in the collection of Professor William Friedman; in another, …
… A successor to Flameng’s print in the form of a coloured mezzotint by George Sidney Hunt was later …
… physical location Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge   accession or collection …
… references and bibliography Linnean Society Council Minute Book no. 6 (1881–1891), pp. 48, 53–54, …
… over reproduction rights for his painting of Darwin. Linnean Society archive, BL/3/5, BL/3/7 and BL …
… , accessed January 2020. Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of …

2.16 Horace Montford statue, Shrewsbury

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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his birthplace, Shrewsbury, in 1897, is one of the finest of the commemorative portrayals of him. Up to that time, the only memorial to Darwin in the town was a wall tablet of…

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… < Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his birthplace …
… be Shrewsbury’s ‘greatest son’. When the Midland Union of Natural History Societies visited …
… he suggested ‘starting a subscription list for the purpose of erecting a statue’ in the town. …
… more auspicious in 1896–1897. The Shropshire Horticultural Society (SHS) secured a partnership with …
… that the public mood chimed with ‘the ruling sentiment of British imperialism’: the festivities …
… because ‘his name was the high-water mark in the history of humanity’. For the SHS he was, more …
… this nation has ever produced’, and a prime source of local pride. The minutes of the SHS …
… wholeheartedly recommended Montford, who was head of the Royal Academy’s School of Sculpture, and he …
… on the back, ‘ERECTED BY THE SHROPSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 1897’.   references and …
… pp. 190–191, 240. Minutes of the Shropshire Horticultural Society’s general and finance committees, …
… then apparently covered in ivy. Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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… for the voyage, refers to FitzRoy’s ‘immense stock of instruments & books . . . in books all …
… he felt he would need, even if it meant duplicating some of FitzRoy’s own: ‘You are of course …
… to leaving mine behind . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert …
… feet. The books in the Poop Cabin are at the Service of all the Officers of the Beagle who …
… transfered from one Officer to another without the knowledge of the person who has it in charge. …
… who have books which they think will be generally useful and of which there are not already …
… past 8. Books are never on any account to be taken out of the Vessel. The two …
… and geological notes it is possible to compile a list of works used by CD during the voyage. Some of …
… Anniversary address (1834). Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 44–70. …
… of Anglesea. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1, pt 2 (18): 359–452. (DAR 33: …
… the southern extremity of South America. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 1 (1832): 155 …
… . . . of earthquakes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 51 (1760): 566 …
… insect . . . Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. …
… additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences . . . 2d ed. …
… a map of cotidal lines. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 123 (1833): 147 …
… that have not been located. Administration du Muséum Royal d’Histoire Naturelle. …
… of a recent deluge. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 5 (1821): 516–44. (DAR 34.2 …
… Island of Juan Fernández. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 1 (1834): 21–6. (DAR …
… age of the veins of Cornwall. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 2 (1822): …
… the mines of Cornwall. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 120 (1830): 399 …
… and of Ascidiæ. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 126 (1834): 365–88. ( …
… made by Captain Basil Hall, . . . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 7 (1815): 269 …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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… At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
… scientific correspondence. Six months later the volume of his correspondence dropped markedly, …
… ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June 1863] he wrote to his …
… Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where he underwent a course of the water-cure. The treatment was not …
… with the challenges presented by the publication in February of books by his friends Charles Lyell, …
… Huxley, the zoologist and anatomist. Lyell’s Antiquity of man and Huxley’s Evidence as to man …
… bearing on Darwin’s species theory and on the problem of human origins. Specifically, Darwin …
… , a weekly review of science, literature, music, and the arts, the prominent anatomist Richard Owen …
… the first part of his presidential address at the Linnean Society of London to British and foreign …
… included his election as a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin …
… memoir in the American Journal of Science and Arts (A. Gray 1863e), continuing his practice of …
… in November when Darwin heard that his nomination for the Royal Society’s Copley Medal had been …
… failure to win the award was Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward …
… in species of Linum ’) was read before the Linnean Society. In the paper, Darwin presented …
… the end of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had …
… communicated Scott’s Primula work to the Linnean Society in a paper that was read in February …
… Scotland; he warned Darwin that at the Edinburgh Botanical Society, where he read his orchid paper, …
… and Herschelea Darwin communicated to the Linnean Society ( see letter to Roland Trimen, 23 …
… to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, whom Goodsir …

3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…

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… Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals …
… Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had himself made of human gestures and expressions. He also …
… association had extended beyond work on The Expression of the Emotions. In April of that year, …
… I gladly complied with his request to take several photos of me, and these I imagine he intends to …
… that Darwin agreed to be photographed by Rejlander as a way of compensating him for the relatively …
… photographed Darwin’s relatives on request. A family album of ‘cartes de visite’ now in the …
… as William or Leonard Darwin, as well as the profile of Darwin himself. The reverse of the …
… and October 1871, and in March and August 1872, but some of these payments, and later ones, may …
… dramatic and allegorical compositions such as The two ways of life (1857), a photograph …
… or ‘composition-photography’, and justified it as a way of enabling the photographer to manipulate …
… any plans for purveying a fanciful or dramatised portrayal of Darwin, he was evidently thwarted, as …
… read at a Meeting of the South London Photographic Society, February 12, 1863. Darwin’s letter to …
… pp. xi-xii (DAR 140.1.5; also in the Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society). Wood engraving …
… 1870 – 1890 (London and New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020), pp. 26-30. J van Wyhe, …

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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… Carnegie commissioned Horace Montford for two bronze busts of Darwin. The exact circumstances of …
… sculptor for the late Lord Farrer’ – that is, the bust of 1898 now at the Royal Society. Carnegie …
… former is still at Pittsburgh, but the subsequent history of the latter is unknown to the present …
… period when Carnegie was pouring money into the construction of a library and a complex of museums …
… they conferred, were a public duty – an expression of his ‘Gospel of Wealth’; and the bust of Darwin …
… register, the bust had cost him 500 dollars. Minutes of a Fine Arts committee meeting of 15 January …
… and the provision of amenities, with the contemporary arts and sciences going hand in hand. …

1.18 John Collier, oil in Linnean

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< Back to Introduction By 1881 it was clear to Darwin’s intimates that he was increasingly frail, and that, as he approached death, he had finally escaped from religious controversy to become a heroic figure, loved and venerated for his achievements…

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… by the public at large. It was therefore a matter of urgency to fashion a definitive image of him …
… with the spectator, while William Richmond’s portrait of him in academic robes failed to convey …
… as a thinker. George Romanes and other members of Darwin’s circle therefore gained his …
… Secretary; and Darwin’s son Francis was a member of the Council. Darwin himself wrote to Romanes on …
… Mr Collier is a very good one’, as his recent portrait of Joseph Hooker testified. Moreover, Darwin …
… marriage to Huxley’s daughter Marian had made him a member of the Darwinian set, with sympathy for …
… in science in general: his later book, The Religion of an Artist (1926), shows him entirely …
… he would be proud to see himself ‘suspended at the Linnean Society’. In the event, he did not live …
… Room there. It ‘was about to be hung in the rooms of the society’ in April 1882, when his death was …
… moving truth to nature. By the time it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in May 1882, Darwin was …
… world.’ physical location Linnean Society   accession or collection number …
… . Linnean Society archive, manuscript letter LL/8, Darwin to Romanes, 27 May 1881. …
… him the picture was finished (DCP-LETT-13252). ‘The Royal Academy Banquet’, Times (1 May 1882), …
… Thomas Stearn, A Bicentenary History of the Linnean Society of London (London: Academic Press, …

2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion

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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…

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… Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the …
… in a modern.’ Yet this medallion creates an impression of Darwin’s character which is strikingly …
… a history . . . all the better if they have some touch of the strange or the wild’. For example, he …
… satyr-like in expression and in feeling, ugly with that kind of ugliness which we sometimes prefer …
… artistic context in which Legros worked. The new art form of medallions which he promoted – often …
… (now the Manchester Art Gallery) through its antecedent, the Royal Manchester Institution. It was …
… of famous men, including that of Darwin (no. 1604), at the Royal Academy in 1882. …
… 1912), pp. 272–6 (p. 276). Philip Attwood, ‘The Society of the Medallists’, The Medal , 3 (July …
… Wilcox, Alphonse Legros , exhibition at Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, 1987. Laurence Brown, A …

Conrad Martens

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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…

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… Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting …
… in Rio de Janeiro, learned that Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle , was looking for a …
… he was befriended by Philip Parker King, former commander of the British South American Survey, to …
… Martens and both commissioned paintings. In 1837 some of Martens’s Australian watercolours …
… turned to oil painting and exhibited at the Victorian Fine Arts Society in Melbourne in 1853, the …
… in 1862, the year in which he also sent Darwin a watercolour of Brisbane River. Martens stayed in …
… Library. He continued painting and had a number of public commissions before dying from a heart …
… Onslow, and they remained for many years in the possession of her descendants at Camden Park, near …
… Library in 1977. FitzRoy wrote in his Narrative of the voyage: ‘Knowing well that no one …
… time – even if he had the ability – to make much use of the pencil, I engaged an artist ... to go …
… with the Beagle , a period which includes all but one of his sketches of Monte Video. Although he …
… the Beagle . The first sketch Martens made as a member of the Beagle crew is MS.Add.7983: 21v …
… ‘South America’. The sketchbook has thirty-one leaves. Of the sixty-two pages, twenty are …
… remaining twelve illustrated pages are watercolours. Most of the sketches are dated, and the book …
… page. The sketches begin in April 1834, with the exception of the very first image, which dates from …
… to an end, during his voyage from South America via a number of Pacific Ocean islands to New Zealand …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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… On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species , …
… : reactions and reviews But it was the opinion of scientific men that was Darwin’s main …
… but were nonetheless appreciated for their honest critiques of his views. ‘One cannot expect …
… gave ‘good and well deserved raps’ on his discussion of the geological record; but this criticism, …
… to fly’. His ‘dearly beloved’ theory suffered a series of attacks, the most vicious of which came …
… to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). (A chronological list of all the reviews mentioned in the volume …
… Sedgwick, not surprisingly, attacked the book on a number of fronts. But it was his methodological …
… saying that nat. selection does not explain large classes of facts; but that is very different from …
… on having developed a theory that explained several classes of facts— those of geological succession …
… Darwin. Comparing natural selection to the undulatory theory of light or to the theory of gravity, …
… helps to explain why Darwin was delighted by the defence of his scientific method by the young …
… difficulties were raised against the theory on the basis of existing scientific evidence. Several …
… varieties and natural selection in a lecture before the Royal Institution. Yet he also noted the …
… stated publicly at a meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in May that ‘his chief attacks …
… by Gray’s review in the American Journal of Science and Arts , Darwin was elated by his series of …

Experimenting with emotions

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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…

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… Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On …
… emotions were entered, alongside remarks on the origins of language, aesthetic taste, and sympathy, …
… toys, and withholding affection temporarily at moments of distress. ‘I made a loud snoring noise, …
… curious … I repeated the experiment’ ( ‘Observations of children’, Correspondence vol. 4, …
… is filled with examples from novels, plays, and the visual arts, with anecdotes about devoted dogs, …
… document and display expressions, Darwin made extensive use of a relatively new technology: …
… Adolph Kindermann, ‘I am writing an Essay on the Ex. of the emotions … I shd be very glad if you …
… on expression in the early 1860s, and built up a collection of several hundred images. His pattern …
… across human groups and the animal-human boundary. Many of these were child character studies, which …
… to Expression , he remarked on the difficulty of studying emotions that provoked sympathy in the …
… process’ was in fact an artful contrivance of skilled photographers, who were able to alter the …
… impossible without studio interventions. After over a year of searching, Darwin finally obtained a …
… or legitimation of experiments, from the early days of the Royal Society. Here, the process seems to …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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… The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
… dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second …
… admired in his youth: ‘I have always looked on him as one of the greatest men the world has ever …
… to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a Cambridge friend, Albert Way, caused …
… university days together, and the long-abandoned pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( …
… and sceptics Darwin excused himself for reasons of health from various social activities, …
… in the month, another Williams séance was held at the home of Darwin’s cousin Hensleigh Wedgwood. …
… was that Williams managed to get the two men on each side of him to hold each other’s hands, instead …
… January [1874] ). This did not stop word getting to America of the ‘strange news’ that Darwin had …
… 1874 ). Back over old ground New editions of Coral reefs and Descent consumed …
… John Tyndall, professor at and superintendent of the Royal Institution of Great Britain was informed …
… suggested having him removed as secretary of the Linnean Society ( letter From J. D. Hooker, 29 …
… of June, Darwin’s fourth son, Leonard, who had joined the Royal Engineers in 1871, went to New …
… he had with Hubert Airy, the son of the Astronomer Royal, George Biddell Airy, to help Leonard gain …
… Ruck, the sister of a friend of Leonard Darwin’s in the Royal Engineers, on 23 July 1874. The newly …
… Dionaea (Venus fly trap) to help with his lecture at the Royal Institution ( letter to J. S. …
… Balfour; Darwin offered to try to get it exhibited at a Royal Society of London soirée (see …
… his time in China, in his candidacy for election to the Royal Society of London ( see letter to H. …
… the colour of their surroundings to the Entomological Society of London ( letter from H. W. Bates, …
… Charles Lyell’s plan to leave a bequest to the Geological Society of London and an annual medal ( …
… elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( see letter to J. P …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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… John Jenner Weir, ‘If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow man, he ought to do what I …
… , pp. 87–90, Darwin had briefly introduced the concept of sexual selection to explain certain …
… claimed that sexual selection was ‘the most powerful means of changing the races of man’ …
… decades before. He also made efforts to expand his network of informants, especially among breeders …
… leading physiologists, zookeepers, and his immediate circle of friends and relations. In July 1868 …
… would eventually swell to two separate books, Descent of man and Expression of the emotions in …
… was also generated by the long-awaited publication of Variation in animals and plants under …
… He asked Bates, who was president of the Entomological Society of London, to raise the question at …
… by several other entomologists who had been present at the society’s meeting. Darwin circulated his …
… and trimorphic plants’. They were read before the Linnean Society of London on 19 March. In a letter …
… supported Farrer’s candidacy for fellowship of the Linnean Society ( letter from George Bentham, …
… 1868] ). Barber’s paper was read before the Linnean Society on 4 February 1869, but remained …
… in July he was second in the entrance examination for the Royal military academy at Woolwich. ‘I …
… to be bestowed on him, including the order of merit of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and …

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