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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … Ever since the publication of Expression , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The …
- … spent completing Forms of flowers , his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the …
- … of bloom, each of these projects would culminate in a major publication. Darwin’s botany was …
- … his wife, Amy, the previous year. He assisted his father’s research on movement and bloom, and …
- … by his engagement to Sara Sedgwick, an American from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The …
- … He returned to his alma mater in November to hear a Latin oration composed specially for the …
- … the fertility of individual flowers and plants across a range of common species, such as the …
- … pleases me.’. Darwin dedicated the book to Gray, ‘as a small tribute of respect and affection’. He …
- … measure: ‘it might then be highly beneficial to [a plant] that the same flower or the same …
- … warned Thiselton-Dyer, who seems to have shared Hooker’s suspicion of ambitious gardeners ( letter …
- … method of recording leaf motion for extended periods. In a letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 11 October …
- … … tap one of the young leaves with a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). …
- … enjoyed working with Francis, and encouraged his son’s independent research. Using the facilities at …
- … diet of meat. His findings answered a number of Darwin’s critics who had questioned whether plants …
- … glandular hairs in the cups formed by the leaves of fuller’s teasel ( Dipsacus sylvestris , a …
- … on 23 May , ‘the Council have refused to print Frank’s paper on the Teazle glands.… I have not been …
- … , or to the vibratory flagella of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). …
- … in July 1877 (F. Darwin 1877b), and Darwin sent Cohn’s letter vindicating his son’s research to …
- … his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October …
- … the Westphalian Provincial Society for Science and Art. In a letter to Darwin written before 16 …
- … the only one full-page in size. Haeckel sent a personal letter of congratulation on 9 February , …
- … (see Appendix V). The album arrived with a long letter from the director and secretary of the …
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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- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … [DAR 119: 15a] 1844 & 5 Oct 20. Lloyd Field Sports of N. of Europe [L. Lloyd …
- … 30 Gerard’s Koonewur [Gerard 1841]. (nothing) Lloyd & Gerard Travels in Himmalaya [W. …
- … for J. Wilson origin of Domestic animals. 94 Lloyd Scandinavian Adventures 1854 [L. Lloyd …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … May 21 st . L. Loyd. Scandinavian Adventures 1854 [L. Lloyd 1854].— May 28 th . …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … Bethune, John. 1840. Poems by the late John Bethune; with a sketch of the author’s life by his …
- … eds.] 119: 11a Blacklock, Ambrose. 1838. A treatise on sheep; with the best means …
- … ——. 1840. An encyclopædia of rural sports; or, a complete account, historical, practical, …
- … 1844. Algeria, past and present. Containing a description of the country … with a review of …
- … ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d’arbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet …
- … augmentée d’un grand nombre de fruits, les uns échappés aux recherches de Duhamel, les autres …
Frances Power Cobbe
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Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at home, at Newbridge House, county Dublin, except for two years at a school in Brighton: she hated the school. After she left, she kept house for her mother and father, and after her mother's death for…
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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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- … It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him …
- … the sake of his health, and is rather formally dressed in a top hat and dark coat. Tommy, less self …
- … moved his head during the exposure. According to Darwin’s biographers, Desmond and Moore, Darwin …
- … apparently not circulated outside the family during Darwin’s lifetime. When shown in the Darwin …
- … that the photograph was lent to the exhibition by Darwin’s son William suggested to Janet Browne …
- … his father in the 1870s and possibly earlier, with a suggested dating of c.1866-8; Darwin’s daughter …
- … in 1912, but without indications of date or authorship; a reviewer of this exhibition in the Pall …
- … race’. Henrietta recalled in Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, ‘My father had …
- … brisk and willing, and with most easy paces.’ Henrietta’s brother George reported to her in a letter …
- … Frances Power Cobbe, recorded that her companion Mary Lloyd lent him a pony to ride on holiday in …
- … c.1866, acting as the local magistrate, he wrote a warning letter to another local farmer, whose …
- … print references and bibliography Darwin’s draft letter to a local farmer, c.1866, about …
- … and Writings of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ’s College Cambridge, 1909 (Cambridge: …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 8 November [1872] …
- … the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye to the crafting of his legacy. …
- … On the origin of species , intended to be Darwin’s last, and of Expression of the emotions …
- … in relation to sex , published in 1871, these books brought a strong if deceptive sense of a job …
- … himself without writing anything more on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. …
- … earthworms in shaping the environment. The former led to a series of books and papers, and the …
- … , published in the year before his death. Despite Darwin’s declared intention to take up new work, …
- … years before. In his private life also, Darwin was in a nostalgic frame of mind, picking up …
- … June the previous year. He intended the edition to be a popular one that would bring his most …
- … , shortly after correcting the proofs, and Darwin’s concern for the consolidation of his legacy is …
- … should be affordable: ‘do you not think 6s is too dear for a cheap Edit? Would not 5s be better? . . …
- … editions were costly to incorporate, and despite Darwin’s best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. …
- … condition as I can make it’, he wrote to the translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September …
- … let alone the fifth. Printing of the proofs of Moulinié’s translation of the fifth English edition …
- … This complex operation, combined with Moulinié’s increasingly poor health, led to yet further delay, …
- … be reset. The investment in stereotype reinforced Darwin’s intention to make no further changes to …
- … to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January …
- … comparison of Whale & duck most beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ) …
- … a person as I am made to appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). …
- … Darwin would renounce `fundamental intellectual errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January …
- … was silly enough to think he felt friendly towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872 …
- … Darwin for sending her one; she and her companion, Mary Lloyd, were vying to read it first ( letter …
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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- … ‘Considering the limited disposable space in so very small a ship, we contrived to carry more …
- … Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
- … would need, even if it meant duplicating some of FitzRoy’s own: ‘You are of course welcome to take …
- … . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
- … . . . were collected in one cabin, under Mr. Stebbing’s charge, and lent to the officers, without …
- … The names of those who take Books are to be written in a list kept for that Purpose. Any …
- … are not already Duplicates in the Catalogue will confer a general benefit by lending them in a …
- … However, from the Beagle correspondence, CD’s diary, field notebooks, and the extensive …
- … of the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during …
- … and geological notes in the Darwin Archive (DAR 29–38), a brief description of those records may be …
- … be distinguished — they are usually in pencil or in a different ink. During the voyage pencil was …
- … are almost always in ink, usually written with CD’s favourite Brahma pens. References to books in …
- … examples are references to Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s Paul et Virginie and to characters in …
- … to do so. For example, two references to Felix Azara’s works in notes made during 1833 cite …
- … have been found (DAR 42: 73) that are taken from Griffith’s edition of Cuvier’s The animal kingdom …
- … Dictionnaire and could only have come from that author’s Exposition méthodique (1821). …
- … on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
- … a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
- … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … South Sea and Beering’s Straits . . . Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London, 1821. ( Narrative …
