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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…
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … Februrary [1861] ). Darwin drew up a carefully thought-out list of those individuals, societies, …
- … [1861] ). Darwin added some new names in 1861 to the list of ‘young & middle-aged’ …
- … of the horse was interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War. Undoubtedly, the news that …
- … [1861] , and 15 November [1861] ). The American Civil War It was not France, …
- … a Federal base in South Carolina, sparked off the American Civil War. In Britain, events were …
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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- … States and I have copied out of your Manual the enclosed list. Now, I want to know whether you will …
- … how to thank you enough for the very great trouble which the list of close species must have caused …
- … has sent me in answer to my troublesome queries… Would his list of Habitats be of any the least use …
- … AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American Civil War is announced and Gray …
- … and cancels The Times; and the Yankees win the American Civil War. DARWIN: 157 …
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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- … letters to Lyell discussing Antiquity , Darwin made a list of criticisms, including the objection …
- … 12 January [1863] ). Darwin added Bates’s name to his list of the ‘half-a-dozen real downright …
- … Correspondence was established in 1863 with Roland Trimen, a civil servant in Cape Town, whose work …
- … the suffering of slaves’ (LL 3: 199). The American Civil War Darwin’s aversion to …
- … had long since ceased to discuss politics or the American Civil War in his correspondence with Gray: …
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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- … The names of those who take Books are to be written in a list kept for that Purpose. Any …
- … zoological and geological notes it is possible to compile a list of works used by CD during the …
- … feet 6 inches square! Since most of the works on the list are derived from the unpublished …
- … of works which are likely to have been on board. The first list that follows includes those for …
- … that they were on board. The evidence for items on the first list is of four kinds: …
- … designated by symbol ‡. The remaining works on the list are mentioned less frequently, some of …
- … shelves of the poop cabin. Despite the size of the list, it is clear that other works must …
- … and the Authorised Version of the Bible. In the list the most frequently cited sources are …
- … Ignacio. Compendio de la historia geografica natural y civil del Reyno de Chile. Part 1. Madrid, …
- … in the notes or letters, have been omitted from the above list because the evidence that they were …
Volume 28 (1880) now published
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1880 opened and closed with an irksome controversy with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of Movement in…
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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- … carries on through 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the list from 1852 to 1860, when, except for …
- … of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is given in the …
- … are listed. Readers should bear in mind that the list of works recorded in the reading …
- … was given up to the cataloguing. The reading list, even if incomplete, is nonetheless …
- … life was over, he frankly admitted: ‘When I see the list of books of all kinds which I read and …
- … [Schiede 1825] & Lasch. Linn in 1829 [Lasch 1829] has given list of spont. Hybrids. where? …
- … studying in a metaphys. point of view Henslow has list of plants of Mauritius with locality …
- … Engl. Bot. [J. E. Smith 1790–1814]. many facts List of Books at end of Catalogue of Royal Soc …
- … at end of Royal Soc [Royal Society of London 1839] (List from Muller & Bronn [Müller 1837 …
- … —— Walker on intermarriage [Walker 1838]— List of references at end & remarks on his theory: …
- … I was quite aware of the many points of importance.— The list of books given the Soc at end of …
- … d . [Fox 1808] June 23 d Guizot’s History of Civil War [Guizot 1838] July 16. Sir …
- … of Science and Arts ]. Vol 3. Part (entered) in Alph. list —— Boston Journal of Nat. …
- … Vernon Harcourt has published account of Madeira with list of Birds ( some migratory ) [Harcourt …
- … } [DAR *128: 159] Bentham has published list of Pyrenes plants [Bentham 1826]. I …
- … 51 This note is a reference to the alphabetical list of the books read by CD (DAR 120), which …
- … is in Emma Darwin’s hand and is a copy of CD’s reading list in Notebook C, pp. 265–76 ( Notebooks …
- … pages of the notebook; he used the left-hand pages to list scientific books. 68 The …
- … l’année 1821″, p. 167. 83 CD began this list at the back of the notebook. …
- … in ink, presumably because he had added it by mistake to his list of non-scientific books. …
- … 46–9.] *119: 1v.; 119: 2a, 20a ——. 1824. A list of plants, collected in Melville Island. …
- … 23b Edwards, Bryan. 1793–1801. The history, civil and commercial, of the British …
- … of Clarendon. 1704. The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in 1641, …
- … Compendio de la historia geografica, natural y civil del reyno de Chile . Translated into …
- … Letters on Iceland: containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin …
- … We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research …
- … 08 June 1904 Nijmegen Doctor. In the list it says J.R. van Beemen but there is only …
- … Schenkenberg van Mierop P. (Pieter) Civil Engineer Dordrecht …
- … 166 Roorda van Eijsinga S.E.W. Civil Engineer Rolle (Lake …
- … J.H.L.A. (Johan Hendrik Louis Anne) Civil Engineer, Lecturer at the Zalt- Bommel High …
- … Sleijden Ph. W. van der (Phillippe Willem) Civil Engineer. Arnhem …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … science was a recurring issue, as Darwin tried to secure a Civil List pension for Alfred Russel …
- … consulted Joseph Dalton Hooker about the possibility of a Civil List pension, but Hooker was against …
- … about Wallace’s prospects for a government pension. Civil List pensions had been established in 1834 …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin …
- … Schenkenberg van Mierop P. (Pieter) Civil Engineer Dordrecht …
- … 166 Roorda van Eijsinga S.E.W. Civil Engineer Rolle (Lake …
- … J.H.L.A. (Johan Hendrik Louis Anne) Civil Engineer, Lecturer at the Zalt- Bommel High …
- … Sleijden Ph. W. van der (Phillippe Willem) Civil Engineer. Arnhem …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … among native ‘New Zealanders’, scribbled down by the civil servant Walter Mantell who noted that in …
- … you can give me’: the ‘little information’ being a list of seven detailed questions about the …
- … out of a series of anecdotes and observations. A long list of comments and corrections from an …
Volume 29 (1881) is published!
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In October 1881, Darwin published his last book, The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. A slim volume on a subject that many people could understand and on which they had their own opinions, it went…
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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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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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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
