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ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
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- … Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session …
- … across different correspondences can reveal a fuller picture of the different ways working-class …
- … people challenged borders and boundaries, including those of modern scientific disciplines. …
- … The Royal Society was a central node in the networks of communication of 19th century science and …
- … Resources Manager at the Royal Society’s Centre for the History of Science. A historian of ideas by …
- … Darlington became a founder of the Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science, which built up a …
- … in helping to nurture American botany, but in preserving its history as well. Maura C. …
- … of epsilon. Frank James is Professor of the History of Science at the Royal …
- … his sesquicentenary edition of Faraday’s Chemical History of a Candle. His current research is on …
- … He has been President of the British Society for the History of Science, the Newcomen Society for …
- … the field of social and cultural informatics since 1985. The history and archives of Australian …
- … dr. Jonas Basanavičius will be presented, as a source for history of scholarly community in …
- … law) and attended several researches in the fields of natural science, linguistics, psychology, …
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 …
- … in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of …
- … Session 1: Experience and Representation Chair: Paul White (University of Cambridge) …
- … Anna Svennson and Sabine Höhler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden): Infinite variety …
- … Session 2: Measurement and Management Chair: Deborah Coen (Barnard College, Columbia …
- … Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge): 50 shades of green: the multiple …
- … Jasper Montana (University of Cambridge): Constitutional divisions in the …
- … Session 5: Biocultural Diversity Chair: Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge) …
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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- … London News reviewed G.T. Bettany’s popular biography of Darwin, and the reviewer took this …
- … and objects amidst which he quietly continued a series of studies, perhaps more important than any …
- … soon after Darwin’s death, had published an engraving of his study, his familiar cloak still thrown …
- … with two ladies on the lawn, with the garden front of the house seen beyond. This calm, civilised …
- … number NPR.C.313 copyright holder Syndics of Cambridge University Library …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … —by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic …
- … to a long-accepted theory, just as we cling to an old suit of clothes. A new theory, like a new pair …
- … can be found with the article, it oppresses with a sense of general discomfort. New notions and new …
- … enough to warrant cremation—even the great pioneer of inductive research; although, when we had …
- … had nothing to unlearn. Such being our habitual state of mind, it may well be believed that …
- … promulgated. We took it up, like our neighbors, and, as was natural, in a somewhat captious frame of …
- … under Domestication’ dealt with familiar subjects in a natural way, and gently introduced ‘Variation …
- … as naturally as one sheep follows another, the chapter on ‘Natural Selection,’ Darwin’s cheval de …
- … now, go on improving and diversifying for the future by natural selection, could we even take up the …
- … that probably there is some truth on both sides. ‘Natural selection,’ Darwin remarks, ‘leads …
- … and so not likely to work much harm for the future. And if natural selection, with artificial to …
- … go slowly out of use, and become extinct species: this is Natural Selection . Now, let a great …
- … for all that concerns the present epoch of the world’s history—an epoch in which this renowned …
- … is the capital problem in the philosophy of natural history; and the hypothesis which consistently …
- … the natural forms which surround us, because they have a history or natural sequence, could have …
- … plant itself, and that our knowledge or our ignorance of the history of its formation or mode of …
- … to ‘believe that, at innumerable periods in the earth’s history, certain elemental atoms have been …
- … we try it upon that category of thought which we call chair . This is a genus, comprising …
- … or subjectively regarded. Each species or sort of chair, as we have said, has its varieties, …
- … get some good illustrations of natural selection from the history of architecture, and the origin 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. …
- … SHS raised its profile further by ‘devoting some £1000 of its surplus money to the payment of a debt …
- … 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 …
- … directed at Boehm’s treatment of Darwin’s hands in the Natural History Museum statue. Just as in …
- … below, while the bands of relief ornament running round the chair appropriately represent corals, …
- … references and bibliography ‘Midland Union of Natural History Societies. Ninth Annual Meeting, …
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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- … Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum …
- … a scientist whose key works were produced in the second half of the nineteenth century. At the …
- … with Darwin, which ‘ripened rapidly into feelings of esteem and reverence for his life, works, and …
- … Bishop Wilberforce’s attack, in the famous BAAS meeting of 1860. After Hooker had spoken, Raphael …
- … acquired by Revd Frederick William Hope, who endowed the chair in zoology, formed the core of Oxford …
- … He contributed a book, Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection (1896), to Cassell’s …
- … chose a photograph of Boehm’s statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum, London, as the …
- … disagreement among scientists in the 1890s over the roles of natural selection and sexual selection …
- … in competition with Boehm, for the commission to sculpt the Natural History Museum statue of Darwin. …
- … of scientific specialisms into a holistic study of the natural world and of human cultural …
- … to wisdom and reverence. As the century progressed, the natural theology which underpinned this …
- … physical location Oxford University Museum of Natural History accession or …
- … the disappointing news that Boehm was to be given the Natural History Museum commission (Hope Pinker …
- … correspondence with William Flower, Director of the Natural History Museum in London, in 1895, about …
- … 1896, in the collection of Wallace’s papers in the Natural History Museum, London, Box 5, WPI/2/77. …
- … 9. Horace Middleton Vernon and K. Dorothea Ewart Vernon, A History of the Oxford Museum (Oxford: …
- … 1, pp. 443–452. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series , 14:1 (24 …
- … September 2019. ‘Oxford University Museum of Natural History: The statues in the court’, at http:/ …
- … The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Oxford: Bodleian Library and …
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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- … In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, …
- … by the successful medallist Frank Bowcher, with a portrayal of Darwin on one side and Wallace on the …
- … in the press. Wallace mounted the platform ‘amid a storm of cheering’, and expressed gratitude to …
- … Strasburger, Ernst Haeckel and August Weismann – a member of the German embassy staff received the …
- … Leonard Darwin’s study of his father sitting in a wicker chair on the veranda at Down, c.1874, …
- … put on show in 1908. There is a photograph in the Natural History Museum (NHM 1456491, …
- … Thomas Gage and William Thomas Stearn, A Bicentenary History of the Linnean Society of London …
- … A Catalogue of Portraits, Paintings and Sculpture at the Natural History Museum, London (London: …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … in plant physiology, he investigated the reactive properties of roots and the effects of different …
- … between science and art, and the intellectual powers of women and men. He fielded repeated requests …
- … by early April, he was being carried upstairs with the aid of a special chair. The end came on 19 …
- … his brother Erasmus had been interred in 1881. But some of his scientific friends quickly organised …
- … In the end, his body was laid to rest in the most famous of Anglican churches, Westminster Abbey. …
- … pleasure. The year opened with an exchange with one of his favourite correspondents, Fritz Müller. …
- … for years, but he was always keen to learn more. One line of research was new: ‘I have been working …
- … was in fact the clergyman and professor of ecclesiastical history Henry Wace. Darwin was confident …
- … as I am, though there are many who do not believe in natural selection having done much,—but this is …
- … ‘He certainly finds being carried upstairs (in a carrying chair Jackson fetched yesterday) a benefit …
- … the most touching was from John Lubbock, whose interest in natural history at an early age was …
- … to you, I may mention, as a proof that I am devoted to Natural History, that I went as Naturalist on …
- … is my deliberate conviction that the future Historian of the Natural Sciences, will rank Lyell’s …
- … of strength: I am, however, able to do a little work in Natural History every day’ ( letter to …
- … grant that Man must be included in the theory of Variation & Natural Selection, must give up …
- … by God, or appeared spontaneously through the action of natural laws. But having said this, I must …
- … [1870] ). Despite Darwin’s insistence that natural selection was less important than the …
- … unless fully formed, and so could not have evolved by natural selection (see Origin 6th ed., pp. …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray …
- … respect Craig Baxter's right to be identified as the creator of this dramatisation, and that of …
- … to aid public reading. If you want to see the full texts of the letters that have been used here, …
- … There are three actors who predominantly read the words of the following: Actor 1 – Asa Gray …
- … the original text not, necessarily, a pause in the delivery of the line. A forward slash (/) …
- … one of the few who fought manfully for the very citadel of natural theology. JANE GRAY: …
- … tentatively expresses his original and dangerous theory of natural selection to his friend, the …
- … spot where I shall end it. GRAY: [His] doctrine of Natural Selection… was drawn up in the …
- … you cannot imagine how pleased I am that the notion of Natural Selection has acted as a purgative on …
- … ago it occurred to me that – whilst otherwise employed on Natural History – I might perhaps do good …
- … can find made out, in geographical distribution, geological history, affinities etc. etc. etc… [And] …
- … Wallace has developed his own strikingly similar theory of natural selection. Also, Darwin’s infant …
- … if by any chance you have my little sketch of my notions of natural Selection and would see whether …
- … copies of his book ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ and provokes strong …
- … which it has fallen since its written records tell us of its history… GRAY: 70 …
- … the formation of organs – the making of eyes, etc. – by natural selection. Some of this reads quite …
- … supernatural; that of Darwin, as equally derivative, equally natural. The ordinary view – rendering …
- … most favored by facts will be developed and tested by ‘Natural Selection,’ the weaker ones [will] be …
- … Gray, as he did near the opening of the play, sits in his chair. I am now at Malvaceae …
3.7 Leonard Darwin, photo on verandah
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< Back to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down House, Leonard Darwin’s photograph of him sitting in a wicker chair on the verandah was originally just a family memento. However, as Darwin’s high…
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- … to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down …
- … character and his domestic ambience, such visual glimpses of life at Down increasingly entered the …
- … a prelude to Alfred Russel Wallace’s article ‘The debt of science to Darwin’. Furthermore, Wallace’s …
- … as the frontispiece to volume 2of the Life and Letters of his father. It is noticeable that the …
- … However, the engraving was less than ideal for the purposes of a frontispiece, since Darwin is …
- … In the caption to the frontispiece and in his catalogue of portraits of Darwin, Francis Darwin …
- … However, there is an old handwritten inscription on the back of DAR 225.1, which dated it to ‘c.1880 …
- … fortuitous resemblance between Leonard’s photograph of his father and Whistler’s famous portrait of …
- … as the main source for Boehm’s commemorative portrayal of Darwin in the marble statue installed in …
- … in a lunette painted by Pasquale Baroni, in the Museum of Human Anatomy, University of Turin. …
- … and DAR 225.1 copyright holder Syndics of Cambridge University Library …
- … and Jane Munro (eds), Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New …
1.15 Albert Goodwin, watercolour
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< Back to Introduction In 1880 the watercolourist Albert Goodwin was apparently invited to Down to produce that rare thing – a portrait of Darwin with members of his family. As Henrietta Litchfield, Darwin’s daughter, explained when she reproduced it…
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- … invited to Down to produce that rare thing – a portrait of Darwin with members of his family. As …
- … Down House with his father, Francis Darwin, after the death of his mother, and would then have been …
- … attached’ to the animal. This treasured member of the family ‘went all his walks with him’ and …
- … tender.’ The verandah on the garden side of Down House evidently became one of Darwin’s …
- … him, wrapped in his cloak and leaning wearily against one of the columns. However, in contrast to …
- … dog Polly not far away’. Henrietta explained, ‘So much of all future life was carried on there, it …
- … a familiar sight, basking in the sun, curled up on one of the red cushions.’ Goodwin’s painting must …
- … 1880. Two years later, Goodwin produced another watercolour of ‘The House at Down’, which belonged …
- … family mementos, these paintings anticipated the impressions of life at Down that were purveyed to …
- … haunts: now poignantly empty, but imbued with memories of his attachment to them. Some were …
- … domestic but studious life at Down became the symbol of his integrity as a scientist. …
- … copyright holder English Heritage originator of image Albert Goodwin; signed and dated …
- … address: Commemorating Darwin’, British Journal for the History of Science , 38:3 (Sept. 2005), …
- … and Jane Munro (eds), Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts (New …
3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'
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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…
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- … In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men …
- … ‘Literary and Scientific Portrait Club’ series of the 1850s, but Portraits of Men of Eminence , …
- … House MSS) indicates that on 2 March 1866 he made a payment of £1 for ‘E. Edwards Photo’, but it is …
- … photograph and studiously written ‘biographical memoir’ of Darwin duly appeared in volume 5 of Men …
- … text, while acknowledging the controversial nature of Darwin’s theories, already treated him as a …
- … had grown by 1865–1866 helped to enhance this impression of intellectual authority. In Men of …
- … one is an extended three-quarter view showing the seat of Darwin’s chair and his long crossed legs, …
- … and plain-featured in these new images, partly as a result of his chronic ill health in the 1860s. …
- … family. His brother Erasmus – always a careful custodian of Charles’s public image – wrote to Emma, …
- … of the Lives of . . . the Most Prominent Personages in History , 8 vols (New York: Selmar Hess, …
- … Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago and London …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but …
- … his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species and varieties. In contrast to …
- … and involved in the social and political activities of the community of savants as well as in its …
- … stay; and, with his father’s advice, Darwin began a series of judicious financial investments to …
- … which completed his trilogy on the geological results of the Beagle voyage, and extensively …
- … Between 1844 and 1846 Darwin himself wrote ten papers, six of which related to the Beagle …
- … 1843, n. 1). Darwin's inner circle: first discussions of species change In …
- … seething around an evolutionary book, Vestiges of the natural history of creation , published …
- … by its skilful but scientifically unsound reasoning. Natural selection Perhaps the …
- … preparation for writing up his ‘big book’ on species ( Natural selection ), he had decided that …
- … thought and influenced his speculations in all fields of natural history. But despite this clear and …
- … a paid position, involving an unsuccessful campaign for the chair of botany at Edinburgh University …
- … And like Darwin, he was deeply committed to philosophical natural history. Mr Arthrobalanus - …
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