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The correspondence 1821-60: anniversary paperback set

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General Editor Frederick Burkhardt, and the editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project (Cambridge University Press 2009) These eight award-winning volumes, reprinted for the first time in paperback, present the definitive text of all known letters to…

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  • … General Editor Frederick Burkhardt, and the editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project (Cambridge
  • … theory.  In riveting detail, they tell the story of an aimless English schoolboy who emerged as the …

Oxford and Cambridge University Club

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Intrigue at Cambridge

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  • … Darwin's friend John Maurice Herbert writes with news of charges of corruption and …

2.28 Couper bust in Cambridge

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< Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, staged an international event to mark the centenary of his birth and the fifty years’ anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species. Over four hundred…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, …
  • … formal ceremonies and receptions, lectures, the award of honorary degrees, museum tours, and relaxed …
  • … old college, Christ’s College, including a sight of the rooms he had occupied there, were prominent …
  • … in the Old Library a year earlier, to mark the tercentenary of the birth of John Milton in 1608. …
  • … but also a memorial of the American delegation’s visit to Cambridge for the 1909 celebration. …
  • … that it would ‘convey to this and future generations of Cambridge students some impression of the …
  • of red granite, and Osborn had suggested a similar base for Cambridge’s replica. However, the …
  • … Indeed, the initial reception of the ‘colossal’ bust in Cambridge was lukewarm at best. While George …
  • … physical location Christ’s College, Cambridge 
 accession or collection number CC00287 
 …
  • … Order of the Proceedings at the Darwin Celebration held at Cambridge, June 22 – June 24, 1909. With …
  • … Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1909 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 24, no. 119. …

Darwin’s Photographic Portraits

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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…

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  • … photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of  …
  • … Hooker  would come to call Darwin’s epistolary exchange of photographic images as his  “carte …
  • … his correspondents from around the globe in their exchange of  carte-de-visites , or small …
  • … Asa Gray , or when he was given a photograph as a token of esteem by a colleague, such as Daniel …
  • … Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797–1867), Dar 225:129, ©Cambridge University Library  …
  • … Charles Darwin, 1860-61, William Darwin, Courtesy of Harvard University Herbaria and the Botany …
  • … Charles Darwin, 1868, Julia Margaret Cameron, Dar 225:139, ©Cambridge University Library …
  • … his horse ‘Tommy’, 1868, Leonard Darwin, Dar 225:116, ©Cambridge University Library In …
  • … Image: Charles Darwin, 1871, Oscar Rejlander, Dar 257:14, ©Cambridge University Library …
  • … Darwin, 1874, Elliot and Fry, Dar 257:11,  ©Cambridge University Library In the same …
  • … Image: Charles Darwin, 1878, Leonard Darwin, Dar 225:119, ©Cambridge University Library …
  • … Image: Charles Darwin, 1878, Leonard Darwin, Dar 225:1, ©Cambridge University Library …
  • … Darwin, 1881, Elliot and Fry, Dar 140.1:32, ©Cambridge University Library The final …
  • … Image: Charles Darwin, 1881, Barraud, Dar 257:6, ©Cambridge University Library Further …

Darwin on marriage

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On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted; they were married on 29 January 1839. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of…

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  • … On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, …
  • … have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of marriage in the months immediately …
  • … If I dont travel.— Work at transmission of Species— Microscope simplest forms of life— Geology. ? …
  • … horse—take Summer tours Collect[7] specimens some line of Zoolog: Speculations of Geograph. range, …
  • … no country, no tours, no large Zoolog. Collect. no books. Cambridge[8] Professorship, either Geolog. …
  • … better, but great obstacles to science & poverty. Then Cambridge, better, but fish out of water, …
  • … space— The original manuscript is in: Cambridge University Library,  DAR 210.8:1 …
  • … a  dog anyhow.—  [15]  Home, & someone to take care of house— Charms of music & female …
  • … perhaps— Compare this vision with the dingy reality of Grt. Marlbro’ St.  Marry—Mary—Marry …
  • … But then if I married tomorrow: there would be an infinity of trouble & expense in getting & …
  • … many a happy slave— The original manuscript is in Cambridge University Library, DAR 210.8:2 …
  • … before del  ‘some’. [8] ‘Cambridge’  before del  ‘¶’. [9] ‘not’  interl . …

Photograph album of Dutch admirers

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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…

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  • … the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in …
  • … ) Harting had also written an account of Darwin's work for  Album der Natuur. …
  • … Images: © English Heritage Trust . Delivered by: Cambridge University Digital Library . …
  • … Accompanying the album was a handwritten list of the 217 people included, with their professional …
  • … The album included several women ( see a list of people in the album with biographical details ).  …
  • … by Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, the translator of Darwin’s works , together with …
  • … album was sent to Darwin by the president and secretary of the society, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen …
  • … then, Sir, on your 68 th  Birthday this testimony of regard and esteem, not for any value it can …
  • … ) Dutch correspondents Some of the people who contributed their photograph to …
  • … his works and describing him as the ‘ personification of Natural Filosofy ’. Darwin welcomed the …
  • … so prized Darwin’s reply that they sent him a photograph of the two of them with Darwin’s letter …
  • … up with another work describing Balanus (a genus of acorn barnacles), Darwin recommended him to …
  • … from M.  Hoek  about the Pycnogonida and your note has of course decided me to send them to him— …
  • … earlier, in 1861, Tiberius Cornelis Winkler, the translator of Origin into Dutch, had also …
  • … the second edition. He also sent Darwin a translation of some of his annotations of Expression …
  • … 18 February 1874 ) Zouteveen’s editions of Descent and Expression contained …
  • … Amsterdam (Natura Artis Magistra) about when two species of peafowl develop their leg spurs. The …

Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists

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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…

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  • … the civil servant Emil Rade , and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The …
  • … der Naturgeschichte Charles Darwin’ (to the reformer of natural history Charles Darwin). Most …
  • … with professors in larger portraits at the centre or the top of the page. Ernst Haeckel was given …
  • … Images: © English Heritage Trust . Delivered by: Cambridge University Digital Library . …
  • … and the birthdate on the front cover is 1808 instead of 1809. The album was intended to commemorate …
  • … On reading about the album in the journal Nature , one of Darwin's oldest friends Leonard …
  • … to the Natural History Sciences,—nor better proof afforded of the favourable view foreigners take of
  • … 1877 : ‘what will perhaps astonish you is that the number of contributors is not larger and the …
  • … tried to apply Darwinian principles to the inorganic world of stars in his book Der kampf ums …
  • … had sent his book based on his lectures on the theories of descent and selection. Darwin later …
  • … publisher in 1867 and published a multi-volume edition of Darwin's works. Otto Zacharias …
  • … von Carneri  produced works on the moral implications of Darwinism.  Carl Vogt had corresponded …
  • … on orchids and the oxslip for Darwin's work on Forms of flowers .  Darwin must have …
  • … Ernst Krause, who edited Kosmos , a German journal of natural history founded in Darwin's …

4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate

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< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…

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  • … in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute …
  • … holds a label in his hand, apparently identifying him as the university’s orator, who made a …
  • … conferred by Darwin’s wisdom and knowledge, like those of the great doctor Hippocrates, will outlive …
  • … Punch returned to its more customary, jocular form of appreciation in the following pages, with a …
  • … International Quadhumanous [sic] Congress’. A rabble of grimacing monkeys scrap over a sheet of
  • … physical location Punch magazine, Cambridge University Library and other locations 
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1.21 window at Christ's College Cambridge

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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a portrayal of him in stained glass. It is in the oriel window of the Hall at his alma mater, Christ’s College Cambridge – in a bay looking onto the First Court of the…

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  • … Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a portrayal of him in stained glass. It is in …
  • … building work for the College, was paid for the provision of the wall panelling in the hall and …
  • … recent history, and he is shown wearing the academic robes of a Doctor of Laws, in reference to the …
  • … physical location Christ’s College, Cambridge 
 accession or collection number CC01670 …
  • … window) 
 copyright holder Christ’s College, Cambridge 
 originators of
  • … references and bibliography ‘Christ’s College Cambridge: Catalogue of Fellows’ Papers’, item 90 …
  • … 1900), pp. 31–32. John Van Wyhe, Charles Darwin in Cambridge: The Most Joyful Years (New Jersey: …

Who we were

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Many people have contributed to the Darwin Correspondence Project since it was first founded in 1974. Some names are now lost to us, and we would appreciate hearing from anyone who has contributed in the past and is not listed here. The final staff of…

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  • … in the past and is not listed here. The final staff of the Darwin Correspondence Project were …
  • … in Victorian Geology (Princeton, 1986) and editions of the works of Mary Somerville, Charles Lyell …
  • … is in history, with a BA from Oxford, and a PhD from Cambridge. She curated the University Library’s …
  • … the World: Charles Darwin and the Beagle Collections of the University of Cambridge (CUP 2009). …
  • … Newton Project and Enlightening Science (both at the University of Oxford), Livingstone Online …
  • … Medicine at UCL) and the British Living Standards Project (University of Sussex). He was also the …
  • … The Casebooks Project (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge), The …

1.14 William Richmond, oil

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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…

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  • … Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated …
  • … entered the room, he ‘received an ovation from all parts of the house’. The public orator, speaking …
  • … with comic songs and horn-blowing, then dangled the effigy of a monkey wearing a mortarboard and …
  • … Whether the students intended to ridicule Darwin’s theory of human descent, or to ridicule the …
  • … set up to collect subscriptions from members of the University, with the ornithologist Professor …
  • … crimson of the Venetian seigniory’. Its reception by the University and the Darwin family was …
  • … When Emma Darwin saw it for the first time on a visit to Cambridge in 1881, she disliked it even …
  • … was still there in 1897, when Atkinson and Clark produced Cambridge Described ; but it was later …
  • … physical location Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge 
 accession or collection …
  • … references and bibliography ‘University News’, Observer (18 Nov. 1877), p. 6. ‘Mr. Darwin at …
  • … p. 371. Thomas Dinham Atkinson and John Willis Clark, Cambridge Described and Illustrated: Being a …

Biodiversity and its histories

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The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories, which brought together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science, to explore how…

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  • … The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories , which …
  • … anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science, to explore how aesthetic, …
  • … in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge. Session 1: Experience and …
  • … Anna Svennson and Sabine Höhler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden):  Infinite variety …
  • …   Chair: Deborah Coen (Barnard College, Columbia University) Staffan Müller-Wille …
  • … and science   Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge):  50 shades of
  • … Session 3: Values of Diversity   Chair: Helen Anne Curry (University of Cambridge) …
  • … via Skype)   Jasper Montana (University of Cambridge):  Constitutional …
  • … 4: Biogeography and Evolution   Chair: Jim Secord (University of Cambridge) Paul …
  • … Diversity   Chair: Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge) Uradyn Bulag  …

John Murray

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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…

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  • … Darwin's most famous book  On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin)  …
  • … politics, travel and science. He was the grandson of John Macmurray, a Scot who had arrived in …
  • … The third John Murray, who followed his father as head of the business in 1843, had spent a year …
  • … Murray Archive  was acquired by the  National Library of Scotland : it contains more than two …
  • … years. Although there are in the  Darwin Archive  at  Cambridge University Library  a similar …
  • … books drawn from his notes. The most popular was his account of the expedition, the  Journal of
  • … they came to discuss a second edition, probably at the end of 1845, Darwin was not happy with …
  • … successful, for Darwin sold his copyright in the  Journal of researches  to Murray for £150 ( …
  • … Darwin and John Murray. Darwin’s next experience of publishing with Murray three years later …
  • … using a microscope and a chapter on geology to  A manual of scientific enquiry prepared for the use …
  • … Darwin was anxious lest an employee suffer hardship because of the mistake:  if this had happened, …
  • … news that he, too, had had the idea that the mutability of species was driven by natural selection. …
  • … by Darwin and Wallace to be read at the  Linnean Society of London  on 1 July 1858, and Darwin …
  • … even reading the manuscript, offered Darwin two-thirds of the profit ( Letter 2443 ). Darwin was …
  • … Book may be sufficiently successful that you may not repent of having undertaken it’ (15 October …

Cambridge

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Preparation and specimens

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  • … Letters about leaving Cambridge, preparing for the voyage, sending specimens, and news from Darwin& …

Suggested reading

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There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested titles that focus Darwin’s correspondence, as well as scientific correspondence and letter-writing more generally. Collections of Darwin’s letters …

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  • … and letter-writing more generally. Collections of Darwin’s letters Barlow, N., ed …
  • … J. 1981. Nature’s fancy: Charles Darwin and the breeding of pigeons. Isis 72 : 163–86. …
  • … heritage , edited by David Kohn. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 519–42. White, P. …
  • … history of the French Enlightenment . Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. 136–52. Miller, D …
  • of nature , edited by D. P. Miller and H. P. Riell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 21 …
  • … natural history from old regime to revolution . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 2. …
  • … fiction in Europe, 1500–1850 . New York: Cambridge University Press. Favret, M. A. 1993. …
  • … and dynamics in the epistolary form . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 36–43. …

Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website.  The full texts …
  • … subject. They concentrated on radicles—the embryonic roots of seedlings—and determined that the …
  • … September 1879 ). He was also unsatisfied with his account of Erasmus Darwin, declaring, ‘My little …
  • … to Francis Galton, 15 [June 1879] ). Even the prospect of a holiday in the Lake District in August …
  • … ). From July, Darwin had an additional worry: the engagement of his son Horace to Ida Farrer, …
  • … W. Dixon, 20 December 1879 ). The year ended with the start of one of the coldest winters on record …
  • … or gone some other way round?’ At least the last letter of 1879 contained a warmer note and the …
  • … Station conveyed ‘warmest congratulations to the veteran of Modern Zoology’, but it was in Germany …
  • … and his wife sent birthday greetings and a photograph of their 2-year-old son named Darwin, who, …
  • … from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of Greiz College in Thuringia …
  • … on 12 February to wish Darwin a ‘long and serene evening of life’. This letter crossed with one …
  • … German government. In order to attack the liberal minister of education, the Catholic political …
  • … found having to sit for a portrait commissioned by the Cambridge Philosophical Society equally …
  • … the honorary doctorate of laws he had received from Cambridge University in 1877. Emma Darwin …

3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…

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  • … in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time …
  • … he is differently dressed – in a rather startling array of checked fabrics - necktie, waistcoat and …
  • … into the distance with a dignity more befitting the author of Origin of Species. However, this …
  • … was preferable to the first Maull and Polyblank photograph (of c.1855), which had given him such an …
  • … known to have been employed by Darwin before the second half of the 1860s, when Ernest Edwards …
  • … copy to use as the frontispiece to the second German edition of Origin , published in 1863.  …
  • … reissued in a retouched and softened version, and one copy of this reissue entered the collection at …
  • … studio.  physical location Darwin archive, Cambridge University Library 
 …
  • … 257.2 (cropped) 
 copyright holder Syndics of Cambridge University Library 
 …
  • of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1909 (Cambridge: Cambridge
  • … July 24 th to July 30 th , 1912: University of London, South Kensington, …
  • … The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton , 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, …
  • … Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 240 …

Darwin and women: a selection of letters

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A shorter version of this film is available on the Cambridge University Press video stream.   Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of…

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  • … A shorter version of this film is available on the Cambridge University Press video stream . …
  • … Darwin's famous remarks on women's intelligence in Descent of Man provide a recurring …
  • … Beer, and in the introduction. The immediacy and variety of these texts make this an entertaining …
  • … ' Emma Darwin and women's higher education ', ' The story of Amy and …

1.5 Samuel Laurence drawing 2

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< Back to Introduction This chalk sketch of Darwin by Samuel Laurence is (as Francis Darwin surmised) likely to have been done in 1853, at the same sitting as the portrait in three-quarter view which is now at Down House. It is inscribed on the back…

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  • … < Back to Introduction This chalk sketch of Darwin by Samuel Laurence is (as Francis …
  • … which is now at Down House. It is inscribed on the back of the sheet: ’Sketch of Charles Darwin …
  • … This was bought by me from Munns [i.e. Messrs F. Munns in Cambridge] after the sale of the contents …
  • … sketch was unrecognised. The reference to an oil portrait of Darwin by Laurence is again unexplained …
  • … He subsequently gave or bequeathed it to the Sedgwick Museum of Geology (now the Sedgwick Museum of
  • … in 1904.  physical location Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge 
 …
  • of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1909 (Cambridge: Cambridge

3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback

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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…

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  • … Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a …
  • … he looked like the postman’: he inscribed one copy of the photo, now at Down House, ”Hurrah – no …
  • … concrete details, both the authorship and circumstances of the photograph are uncertain, since it …
  • … in the Darwin centenary exhibition at Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1909, it was described simply …
  • … in the 1870s and possibly earlier, with a suggested dating of c.1866-8; Darwin’s daughter Henrietta …
  • … Although documentary evidence is lacking, the attribution of the photograph to Leonard seems …
  • … Eugenics Conference in 1912, but without indications of date or authorship; a reviewer of this …
  • … done.   physical location Darwin archive, Cambridge University Library. Further …
  • … and DAR 225.138 
 copyright holder Syndics of Cambridge University Library 
 …
  • … DAR-LETT-4963. Emma Darwin’s diary in the Darwin archive, Cambridge University Library, recording …
  • … Henrietta, February 1870, in DAR 251.2243, Darwin archive, Cambridge University Library. Henrietta …
  • of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ’s College Cambridge, 1909 (Cambridge: Cambridge
  • … July 24 th to July 30 th , 1912; University of London, South Kensington, …
  • … Darwinisms, and Visual Culture (Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England, 2009), …
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