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2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
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- … 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 …
- … 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 …
- … earlier. In bringing together under one roof the scientific departments and specimen collections …
- … 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 …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … - by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of …
- … are announced, through which it will become familiar to many of our readers, before these pages are …
- … extracts. For the volume itself is an abstract, a prodromus of a detailed work upon which the author …
- … chapters, and a general recapitulation contains the essence of the whole, yet much of the aroma …
- … elaborate work might have done, with all its full details of the facts upon which the author’s …
- … book: but all the facts that can be mustered in favor of the theory are still likely to be needed. …
- … the subject, can be expected to divest himself for the nonce of the influence of received and …
- … most favored by facts will be developed and tested by ‘Natural Selection,’ the weaker ones be …
- … whose wide observation and profound knowledge of various departments of natural history, as well as …
- … of the theory of the origination of species by means of Natural Selection. The ordinary and …
- … all the individuals composing the species have proceeded by natural generation. Although the …
- … each species has extended and established itself, through natural agencies, wherever it could; so …
- … any species is by no means a primordial arrangement, but a natural result. He goes farther, and this …
- … unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s—looks to natural agencies for the actual distribution and …
- … supernatural; that of Darwin, as equally derivative, equally natural. The theory of Agassiz, …
- … be regarded as a legitimate attempt to extend the domain of natural or physical science. For, though …
- … tribes, etc., on the other, only in degree; and no obvious natural reason remains for fixing upon …
- … is explained through inheritance and the complex action of natural selection, entailing extinction …
- … The shadowy author of the ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’ can hardly be said to have …
- … his theory of society, and Darwin in his theory of natural history, alone have built their systems …
Caroline Kennard
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Kennard’s interest in science stemmed from her social commitments to the women's movement, her interests in nature study as a tool for educational reform, as well as her place in a tightly knit network of the Bostonian elite. Kennard was one of a…
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- … & Kennard in Boston and served as an Assistant Treasurer of the Sub-Treasury of the United …
- … late nineteenth century was known for its country estates of wealthy Boston merchants. In …
- … P. Peabody, and Dr. Marie E. Zakrenska, Kennard was a member of the New England Woman’s Club, the …
- … tenure in the 1880s and 1890s, she was active on the board of directors and served as a vice …
- … World commented on her article “Progress in the Employment of Police Matrons,” in which Kennard made …
- … presented a paper on a topic related to the importance of nature study in childhood education. …
- … Edward Stearns. And in 1897 Kennard gave an extensive review of The Works of Anne Bradstreet, in …
- … reform, as well as her place in a tightly knit network of the Bostonian elite. Kennard was one of a …
- … Darwin to ask about his position regarding the inferiority of women. Darwin replied on 9 January …
- … compared to men. Darwin noted that given the observations of equality among the sexes in native …
- … Ficus elastica plant (rubber tree) to the Boston Society of Natural History. Confirming Kennard’s …
Leonard Jenyns
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When Darwin returned from the Beagle voyage there was no-one available to describe the fish that he had collected. At Darwin’s request Jenyns, a friend from Cambridge days, took on the challenge. It was not an easy one: at that time Jenyns had only worked…
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- … FitzRoy approached his friend George Peacock, then a Fellow of Trinity College, to suggest a …
- … and Jenyns, after a day’s hesitation, largely on account of his parish responsibilities. Both men …
- … despite their difference in age, their shared passion for natural history drew them together. Jenyns …
- … but little – so far as I remember – to any other branch of Natural History’. The two went on joint …
- … who noted rather soberly that Darwin ‘made a number of successful captures I had never made myself, …
- … a testament ‘to the grasp his master mind had taken of Natural History in all its departments, and …
- … and made detailed scientific measurements and descriptions of each new fish on his regular visits to …
- … Jenyns would ever undertake and culminated in the Fishes of the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … Mauro Galetti, 2002: ‘Seed dispersal of mimetic seeds: parasitism, mutualism, aposematism or …
- … writings and modern scientific papers), the coincidence of images – Darwin in the 1860s following …
- … were essentially working on the same puzzle: the existence of bright colours in seeds that have no …
- … on at Down also have ecological resonances: the activities of earthworms; the mix of species in a …
- … in more ways than one – in establishing the modern field of ecology, the assumptions and frameworks …
- … Darwin seems to fit easily into an earlier tradition of natural history; yet the kind of experiments …
- … challenged the old, purely observational tradition of natural history, and at the same time also …
- … work could be performed. He brought his experiments into the natural world and inspired an …
- … philosophy studies the values we give or might give to the natural world and tries to establish or …
- … spring, often draw on science, philosophy, and history in order to establish an argument for action. …
- … of ideas – with many roots, and a correspondingly complex history. What’s in a name? …
- … the term ‘ecology’ clearly did not mark an epoch in the history of science; Darwin and some of his …
- … English in E. Ray Lankester’s translation of Haeckel’s History of creation in 1876; it was slow to …
- … put, in the English-speaking world, under the heading of ‘natural history’, or ‘the economy of …
- … a redrawing of disciplinary boundaries within the fields of natural history and biology. In his view …
- … environment, and left such study to an ‘uncritical’ natural history (Haeckel 1866, 2: 286–7; see …
- … with people who made collections and catalogues of natural objects: indeed, this is pretty much what …
Portraits of Charles Darwin: a catalogue
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Compiled by Diana Donald The format of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits of Darwin are found in a very wide range of visual media. For the purposes of this catalogue, they have been divided into four broad categories, according to medium.…
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- … Compiled by Diana Donald The format of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits …
- … with the original works from which they derive, irrespective of the dates of the reproductions. Such …
- … and medals Photographs and reproductions of photographs in the form of wood …
- … Introduction The iconography of the nineteenth century’s most famous natural …
- … made easy; he provided no philosophic pap for the devourers of magazines and primers . . . showed …
- … held a senior position in a public institution. Yet Origin of Species and Descent of Man …
- … are in the collections of Cambridge University colleges and departments. Others are in the care of …
- … thank Danielle Czerkaszyn of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Inge Fraser of English …
- … More recently she has worked on the interplay between natural science and visual culture in the …
- … curator for the exhibition Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts at …
- … of Charles Darwin’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History , 11:3 (Winter 2010), pp. 347–373 (pp. …
- … Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago and London …
- … address: commemorating Darwin’, British Journal for the History of Science , 38:3 (Sept. 2005), …
- … of Charles Darwin’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History , 40 (2010), pp. 347–373. See also the …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having …
- … after the long illness that had plagued him since the spring of 1863. Because of poor health, Darwin …
- … his health improved enough for him to make some observations of dimorphic plants with William’s help …
- … month, Darwin began to consult William Jenner, professor of clinical medicine at University College, …
- … enough for him to carry out tasks like counting seeds of Lythrum , crossing cowslips with …
- … sequel to On the origin of species by means of natural selection ( Origin ) that he had set …
- … been awarded the Copley Medal because it indicated that ‘Natural Selection [was] making some …
- … of a species by maintaining a level of variation upon which natural selection could act. In his …
- … and he began to make enquiries with his contacts in forest departments, botanic gardens, and …
- … that Darwin’s writings had captured German students of natural philosophy, who read it ‘quasi a …
- … most pressingly’. Giving an account of how the theory of natural selection had been prefigured in …
- … the passages in which he had indicated his support for natural selection. News from France …
- … Paul Janet, who discussed Origin , but accepted natural selection only under certain conditions. …
- … and Kölliker, published in the October issue of the Natural History Review , argued that …
- … zoologist Louis Agassiz, whose Methods of study in natural history began with a series of …
- … entomologists in America to find evidence for the theory of natural selection. Darwin was interested …
- … attention to the geological discussions of the 1860s. Natural selection and humans The …
- … Darwin’s correspondence reveals that interest in the early history of humans and their predecessors …
- … races and the antiquity of man deduced from the theory of “natural selection”’, Darwin’s response …
- … of Wallace’s paper as the first published application of natural selection to humans, and Darwin …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … [ f.146r Title page ] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement …
- … Preface To part II or that intended for N o II of the foresaid works. By Captain Robert …
- … – and almost as heavy – limited the 2 nd to 700 pages of easily readable type – and the Appendix …
- … – I was compelled to omit a very handsome collection of exceedingly valuable materials which I am …
- … of a humble toadyish follower – who would do the Natural History department – on my sole account …
- … He was indeed – perhaps he still is – “very fond of Natural History” – but by way of ascertaining …
- … Latitude – to maintain the water thereabouts about its' natural level” [ f.150r p.7 ] …
- … much allowance must certainly be made for the very natural eagerness to get into Port – after a long …
- … of H.M.S. Blonde – some rather neat specimens of my "natural disposition" – but I am …
- … to find out the explanation for myself. Of course – my natural disposition – could not doubt – that …
- … by not only giving all that – but also a full and accurate history, of every sand-bank, every reef, …
- … – and the Antarctic Seas be omitted – and with that History shall be given (besides ample …
- … entitled an “Appendix” and contain the true and complete history of my most justly celebrated …
- … and (than that) I could not say less after reading the history of my paternal ancestry – and thereby …
- … our own resources for obtaining amusement and in that my natural disposition stood me in good stead …
- … do likewise as per the following – respecting Flinder’s history of his explorations of these …
- … incumbent upon me, to apply my attention so entirely to the history and condition of the Settlers …
- … With respect to the extract from “The Universal History” which I have inserted in my first Edition …
- … [ f.180r p.67 ] stated as follows “the history of the Inhabitants in this place in as few words …
- … sugarcane, from which sugar is not made^ are produced on the natural soil. But on every …
- … the Beagle’s litter) entitled “Researches in Geology and Natural History” “From the …
- … has that of all other subjects of the Animal and Vegetable departments This has been accomplished by …
- … [ f.212r p.127 ] a vast amount in the department of Natural History of the Country –both in its …
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