To Auguste Forel 28 September [1874]
Summary
Thanks AHF for his book on ants of Switzerland;
recommends reading Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:792) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9661 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To Auguste Forel 28 September [1874] …
- … ZH PN 31.2:792) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Sept [1874] Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel …
- … on ants of Switzerland; recommends reading Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874]. …
- … Bibliography Forel, Auguste. 1874. Les fourmis de la Suisse. Zurich: Zurcher & Furrer. [ …
- … Belt’s “The Naturalist in Nicaragua” (1874): it contains much most curious matter about …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter from Auguste Forel, 23 September 1874 . …
- … Forel 1874 (see letter from …
- … Auguste Forel, 23 September 1874 and n. 2). …
- … see letter from Auguste Forel, 23 September 1874 and n. 5) CD had been particularly …
- … Belt’s description of the feeding habits of leaf-carrying ants in Belt 1874 (see letter to …
- … Fritz Müller, 1 January 1874 , and letter from …
- … Fritz Müller, 20 April [1874] ). See …
- … letter from Auguste Forel, 23 September 1874 . …
To Charles Lyell 23 September 1874
Summary
Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.
Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.
Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9654 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 23 September 1874 …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.450) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Sept 1874 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … the remains of Palaeozoic volcanoes in the Scottish Highlands ( Judd 1874 , p. 276). …
- … T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18]. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Jamieson, Thomas Francis. 1874. On the last stage of the glacial …
- … period in north Britain. [Read 27 May 1874. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society …
- … 30: 317–38. Judd, John Wesley. 1874. On the ancient volcanoes of the Highlands and the …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Sep 23 1874 My dear Lyell I suppose that you have returned or …
- … in Scotland ( letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 ). Lyell had mentioned John …
- … Wesley Judd’s paper on volcanoes in the Hebrides ( Judd 1874 ) in his letter …
- … of 1 September 1874 . CD had reported that it was difficult to trace the origin of …
- … porphyritic structures in the Hebrides mountains ( Judd 1874 , pp. 261, 269, 278–81). …
- … CD’s Volcanic islands was referred to in Judd 1874 , p. 257. CD …
- … period in north Britain’ ( Jamieson 1874 ). CD had corresponded with Thomas Francis …
- … the Mesozoic strata. [Read 21 January 1874. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society …
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1874]
Summary
Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.
CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 334–335 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9629 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1874] …
- … DAR 95: 334–335 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Sept [1874] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … letter to D. F. Nevill, 7 September 1874 and n. 2. For CD’s difficulties in growing …
- … to W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 28 [June 1874] . Acacia farnesiana is a synonym of Vachellia …
- … farnesiana. See letter from D. F. Nevill, 3 September 1874 . …
- … the letter from D. F. Nevill, 3 September 1874 . Hooker had tried to obtain specimens of …
- … tropical plants (see letter from D. F. Nevill, 2 September [1874] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [after 4 September 1874] ). CD had received two …
- … Dionaea muscipula from Kew on 31 August 1874 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Outwards book , …
From John Price 10 September 1874
Summary
Observations on flotation of Utricularia vulgaris.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9631 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … more specimens of Utricularia minor (lesser bladderwort) in his letter of 28 July [1874] . …
- … From John Price 10 September 1874 …
- … DAR 58.1: 90 John Price Chester 10 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Watergate S t . | Chester Sept 10. 1874 My dau r . remembers with me that U. vulgaris did …
- … see letter from John Price , [ c. 27 July 1874]). In Insectivorous plants , pp. 397–8 and …
To A. W. Bennett 27 September [1874]
Summary
Returns copy of Botanische Zeitung.
Responds to comments on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9660 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To A. W. Bennett 27 September [1874] …
- … DAR 143: 85 Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 Sept [1874] Alfred William Bennett …
- … in Gardener’ s Chronicle , 26 November 1874, p. 402. Andrew Murray argued that Drosera …
- … lack an ‘apparatus for digestion’ ( Gardeners’ Chronicle , 19 September 1874, pp. 354–5). …
- … from A. W. Bennett, 21 September 1874 . Bennett had sent CD two issues of Botanische …
- … Zeitung . See letter from A. W. Bennett, 21 September 1874 and n. 1. …
- … the sundew) in his letter of 21 September 1874 ; this letter was written on two sheets …
To Charles Lyell 3 September [1874]
Summary
Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.
Describes his holiday in Southampton.
Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9621 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 3 September [1874] …
- … Mss.B.D25.448) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Sept [1874] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … 1862 . CD refers to John Wesley Judd . See letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . …
- … Letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . Maria Sophia Heathcote . …
- … the letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 , had not been found when the letter was …
- … in Southampton from 30 July to 24 August 1874 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Joseph …
To John Lubbock 26 September [1874]
Summary
JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].
Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.
Colour of calyces.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 10 (EH 88205935) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9659 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To John Lubbock 26 September [1874] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Sept [1874] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6]. Cautions against C. K. …
- … which does not really exist’ ( Lubbock 1874 , p. 404). In Orchids , CD expressed doubt …
- … vulgaris is common milkwort. In Lubbock 1874 , p. 402, Lubbock noted that the calyx, …
- … The year is established by the reference to Lubbock 1874 . CD refers to Lubbock’s two- …
- … part article ‘Common wild flowers considered in relation to insects’ ( Lubbock 1874 ). See …
- … to John Lubbock, [before 17 September 1874] and n. 2. Christian Konrad Sprengel had …
From W. C. Marshall 5 September [1874]
Summary
Sends Pinguicula vulgaris leaves with seeds on them, together with his observations on proportion of leaves with insects on them.
| Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 128–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9626 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From W. C. Marshall 5 September [1874] …
- … 128–9 William Cecil (Bill) Marshall Derwent Island 5 Sept [1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 9 June 1874) . Horace Darwin was a friend of Marshall; …
- … between this letter and the letter from W. C. Marshall, 30 August [1874] . Marshall had …
- … sent leaves of Pinguicula (butterwort) on 30 August 1874 (see letter from W. …
- … C. Marshall, 30 August [1874] ). CD had written that he would be interested in seeing a …
- … to W. C. Marshall, [after 30 August 1874] ). The list has not been found; see, however, …
- … to W. C. Marshall, [after 30 August 1874] , has been found; it did not mention tracing …
From W. J. L. Wharton [15 September 1874]
Summary
Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa.
| Author: | William James Lloyd Wharton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A63–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9641 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Rodriguez … hills. 15.4] scored pencil End of letter : ‘Mauritius Sept 15. — 1874. —’ ink …
- … From W. J. L. Wharton [15 September 1874] …
- … DAR 69: A63–6 William James Lloyd Wharton Mauritius [15 Sept 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the measurement of the transit of Venus in 1874 (G. B. Airy ed. 1881, pp. 352–3). CD had …
- … edition. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure and distribution of …
- … reduced to a sandhead always visible. Now (1874) even this has entirely disappeared, and …
- … and Arabia ( Boteler 1835 ). Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in June 1874 ( Publisher’ …
- … s circular 1874). William Fitzwilliam Owen commanded the British voyage to Africa from …
To J. D. Hooker [20 September 1874]
Summary
Asks JDH to cut a bit of root from old Utricularia and bring it with him to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [20 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9647 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [20 September 1874] …
- … DAR 95: 338 Charles Robert Darwin Down [20 Sept 1874] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 September [1874] . …
- … In 1874, the Sunday following 18 September was 20 September. Hooker planned to visit Down …
- … work on Utricularia (bladderwort; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 September [1874] ). …
From J. D. Hooker [after 4 September 1874]
Summary
Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 4 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 222–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9615 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [after 4 September 1874] …
- … DAR 103: 222–3 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [after 4 Sept 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 21 August [1874] and n. 5, and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 30 August [1874] . …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 August [1874] and n. 6). CD had been investigating the …
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 3 September [1874]
Summary
Will prepare experiments with the fatty acids on digestion of gluten. Has found it is digested slowly, but entirely, with pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9623 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 3 September [1874] …
- … Sanderson, 1st baronet London, Queen Anne St, 49 3 Sept [1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter and the letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 21 August [1874] . Letter to J. …
- … S. Burdon Sanderson, 21 August [1874] . See letter to J. …
- … S. Burdon Sanderson, 21 August [1874] and n. 3. Burdon Sanderson was director of the …
From Auguste Forel 23 September 1874
Summary
Sends a copy of his book on Swiss ants [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Notes points and passages that he thinks will interest CD.
| Author: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9656 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Auguste Forel 23 September 1874 …
- … DAR 164: 153 Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel Munich 23 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … on Swiss ants [ Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Notes points and passages that he thinks …
- … Bibliography Forel, Auguste. 1874. Les fourmis de la Suisse. Zurich: Zurcher & Furrer. [ …
- … on the ants of Switzerland ( Forel 1874 ) is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: …
- … 237–40). See Forel 1874 , pp. 371–3. Forel refers to the species Formica exsecta , F. …
- … fusca . In the back of his copy of Forel 1874 , CD noted all the pages indicated by Forel …
- … to an ancestral state without workers by means of parasitism. ( Forel 1874 , p. 443. ) …
To T. L. Brunton 25 September 1874
Summary
Comments on digestive action of pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Photograph of Rubens’ picture has not arrived.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9657 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To T. L. Brunton 25 September 1874 …
- … DAR 143: 162 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Sept 1874 Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet …
- … and n. 2, and this volume, letter to T. L. Brunton, [29] October [1874] and n. 2. …
- … been in the missing portion of Brunton’s letter of 4 September 1874 . See letter from T. …
- … L. Brunton, 4 September 1874 and n. 3. Brunton’s results supported CD’s own …
- … p. 124). Brunton’s letter of 4 September 1874 is incomplete and the section referred to …
To J. D. Hooker 30 [September 1874]
Summary
The Aldrovanda has arrived. Has examined the leaves. It is an aquatic Dionaea which has acquired some structures identical to those of Utricularia!
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 [Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 340–341 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9664 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 30 [September 1874] …
- … DAR 95: 340–341 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 [Sept 1874] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Oliver 1859 , pp 169– 70). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 23 September 1874 and n. 2. …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 September 1874 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 29 September 1874 and n. 3. CD described the waterwheel plant, Aldrovanda …
From Charles Lyell 1 September 1874
Summary
Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.
CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9619 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From Charles Lyell 1 September 1874 …
- … Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) Charles Lyell, 1st baronet 1 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Tyndall ’s presidential address on 19 August 1874 at the Belfast meeting of the British …
- … Sep. 1. 1874 Copy Sir C. Lyell—to M r . Darwin I have been intending from day to day to …
- … Foster, & Figgis. Judd, John Wesley. 1874. On the ancient volcanoes of the Highlands and …
- … the Mesozoic strata. [Read 21 January 1874. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society …
- … 82. Tyndall, John. 1874b. Presidential address. [Read 19 August 1874. ] Report of the 44th …
- … Association for the Advancement of Science (1874): lxvi–xcvii. Woodward, Henry. 1866–78. A …
- … long section on Darwinian theory (see Tyndall 1874 , pp. lxxxiv–lxxxvii). Tyndall did not …
- … and physical section of the British Association in 1874, lectured at the Parish …
- … Church, Belfast, on 23 August 1874. For a summary of his lecture, and of the …
- … s address, see The Times , 24 August 1874, p. 5. Some of the responses were published in …
- … of the world ). John Wesley Judd . Judd 1874 . Lyell discussed evidence for the former …
From H. M. Wilkinson 15 September 1874
Summary
Utricularia has broken into pieces and appears to be decaying.
| Author: | Henry Marlow Wilkinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 91–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9640 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From H. M. Wilkinson 15 September 1874 …
- … DAR 58.1: 91–2 Henry Marlow Wilkinson Ringwood 15 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of Utricularia (bladderwort; see letters from H. M. Wilkinson, 18 July 1874 and …
- … 5 August 1874 . He is acknowledged in Insectivorous plants , p. 395 n. No letters from CD …
- … M. Wilkinson I could not find one long plant like those we got earlier. Sep r 15. 1874 …
From J. D. Hooker 29 September 1874
Summary
Information about various species of Utricularia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 93–94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9663 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 29 September 1874 …
- … DAR 58.1: 93–94 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 29 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … is incomplete. In his letter of 23 September 1874 , he had referred to a paper by Daniel …
- … see letter to D. F. Nevill, 7 September 1874 and n. 1). At the time, he was calling it …
- … letter to D. F. Nevill, 3 September 1874 ). The plant was first described by the French …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 [September 1874] and n. 1). The Organ mountains (Serra dos …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 September 1874 and n. 3). Harriet Anne Hooker . …
From Charles Lyell 25 September 1874
Summary
Notes recent confirmation of CD’s views on subsidence in [island of] St Jago.
Describes Carboniferous strata discovered on Island of Mull by J. W. Judd. Contained evidence of Miocene sinking of volcanoes.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 457 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9658 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Charles Lyell 25 September 1874 …
- … 2: 457 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet London, Harley St, 73 25 Sept 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of London 7: 89–103. Judd, John Wesley. 1874. On the ancient volcanoes of the Highlands …
- … the Mesozoic strata. [Read 21 January 1874. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society …
- … 73 Harley Street, London: September 25, 1874. My dear Darwin,— There is no subject to …
- … See letter to Charles Lyell, 23 September 1874 . CD had observed a pronounced dip in the …
- … Isle of Mull in the Hebrides (see Judd 1874 , p. 257). George Julius Poulett Scrope had …
- … 2 vols. London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1874. The student’s elements of geology. 2d …
- … Student’s elements of geology ( C. Lyell 1874 , pp. 149–50). The page references in the …
To J. D. Hooker 18 September [1874]
Summary
Describes his observations on Utricularia montana.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 336–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9645 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 18 September [1874] …
- … DAR 95: 336–7 Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Sept [1874] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … this letter and the letter from D. F. Nevill, [11 September 1874] . See letter from D. …
- … F. Nevill, [11 September 1874] . Utricularia montana was the first epiphytic bladderwort …
- … is a synonym of U. alpina. Hooker visited Down on 26 September 1874 (see letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 23 September 1874 ). In Insectivorous plants , pp. 431–2, CD described the …
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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Matches: 23 hits
- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the …
- … intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a Cambridge friend, …
- … and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such reminiscences led Darwin to …
- … much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). I feel very old & …
- … old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] ). Darwin mentioned his poor …
- … on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1874 ). Séances, psychics, and …
- … Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Later in the month, …
- … and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). Darwin agreed that it was ‘all …
- … perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874] ). This did not stop word getting …
- … at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). Back over old ground New …
- … Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January 1874 , letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 …
- … of correction’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 21 [March 1874] ). The book came out in June with the …
- … Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); however, he did not retract his …
- … dog breeders (letters from George Cupples, 21 February 1874 and 12 March 1874 ); the material …
- … Islands (Hawaii; letters from T. N. Staley, 12 February 1874 and 20 February 1874 ; letters …
- … islanders ( letter from William Dealtry, 16 January 1874 ). One of the most significant …
- … enemy into a jelly’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 April 1874 ). The technical nature of Huxley’s …
- … mind where it goes’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 April 1874 ). The second edition of …
- … would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Darwin's son George …
- … of your thought’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 April 1874 ). The Mivart affair …
- … mental and physical disorders (G. H. Darwin 1873b). In July 1874, an anonymous essay appeared in the …
- … libel’ on his son ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [27 July 1874] ). George, however, consulted with his …
- … [a] lying scoundrel’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). He drafted a brief statement of …
Darwin's 1874 letters go online
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The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…
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- … of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. …
- … ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ) The Mivart affair highlights …
- … are some other highlights from Darwin's correspondence in 1874: I feel as old as …
- … signifying so much. ( Letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ) At the age of 65, Darwin …
- … more quietly was severely tested by some of the events of 1874. He had a clear idea of the shape of …
- … must be enough for me ( Letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ) During the year he …
- … the positive ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 August [1874] ) – he mourned after several …
- … day’s work ( Letter to D. F. Nevill, 18 September [1874] ) Darwin’s family continued …
- … have to do— ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 November [1874] ) Darwin’s continuing …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son …
- … appeared to have created very little stir, until, in July 1874, Mivart published an anonymous review …
- … of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 29 July 1874 ). Darwin hastily advised against …
- … to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). Darwin provided a draft of the …
- … to endorse them ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 August 1874 ). He sent a second draft, which Darwin …
- … a fair copy of his letter with his letter of 6 [August] 1874 . George and Darwin were also …
- … George’s letter to Murray with his letter of 11 August 1874 , and was no doubt relieved to …
- … to all he asked ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). In October, George’s letter …
- … a Pickwickian sense’ ( letter to John Murray, 18 October 1874 ). In other words, Mivart had used …
- … reaction was savage ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [6 December 1874] ). Hooker and Huxley between them …
- … the attack on George ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December 1874 ). Huxley met Mivart at an evening …
- … ( Enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 December 1874 .) A reply soon came from Mivart . …
- … of a gentleman’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 23 December 1874 ). However, Huxley still wrote to …
- … this. 124 Gower St W.C. Dec. 24th 1874. Private & Confidential …
- … to John Tyndall ( letter from John Tyndall, 28 December 1874 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 …
- … 16 January 1875, p. 66, signed, ‘The Quarterly Reviewer of 1874’. In it he reiterated his claim that …
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … understand a word. Writing in French on 12 November 1874 to thank Darwin for the book, …
Joseph Simms
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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge …
Essay: Evolution & theology
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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward doctrines of evolution, from the nebular hypothesis down to ‘Darwinism,’ is no less worthy of consideration, and hardly less diverse, than that of…
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- … EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, …
- … had also considered taking up the issue with Murray in 1874, even threatening to break off future …
- … laid to rest, another controversy was brewing. In December 1874, Darwin had been asked to sign a …
- … botanical research and had visited Down House in April 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letters …
- … A scientific friendship had developed between the men in 1874, and this was enhanced by Romanes’s …
- … white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ). Testing Pangenesis …
- … had learned of Lyell’s failing health from Hooker in 1874 and January 1875. On 22 February, he was …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … 9426 - Story-Maskelyne , T. M. to Darwin, [23 April 1874] Thereza Story-Maskelyne …
- … Letter 9616 - Marshall, T. to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall sends …
- … 9606 - Harrison, L. C. to Darwin, [22 August 1874] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, sends a …
- … Letter 9616 - Marshall, T. to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall details …
- … Letter 9485 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [8 June 1874] Mary Treat details her experiments …
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
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- … < Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’ s French-born artist Faustin …
- … this anti-Darwinian argument – a surprising one for 1874 – was genuine or tongue-in-cheek, it is …
- … appeared on the front page of the issue for 18 February 1874, surrounded by an elaborate wood …
- … The caricature of Darwin was not included until the May 1874 issue of the Sketch-Book (vol. 1, …
- … at bottom left. date of creation February 1874 computer-readable date c. …
- … of the Huntington Library. Figaro no. 475 (18 February 1874), cover illustration. James G. …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … started ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Darwin took Emma to a Sunday afternoon at …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum …
- … in 1879 and 1880. When Cosmic Philosophy appeared in 1874, Fiske sent Darwin a copy, but …
- … mind generally towards the doctrine of Evolution in 1874-1875. I like to keep this design before me …
- … bottom right) date of creation September 1874 computer-readable date 1874-09 …
- … and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: 474 (12 Sept. 1874), front page. John Fiske, Outlines …
- … and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and London: Macmillan, 1874); there were many subsequent editions. …
- … letters to Fiske about Outlines : DCP-LETT- 9706 (3 Nov. [1874]) and DCP-LETT- 9749 (8 Dec. [1874 …
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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- … to Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 18 February 1874 ) Zouteveen’s editions of …
Animals, ethics, and the progress of science
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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…
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- … can be chloroformed (letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 December 1874 ). In the previous sections …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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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- … A GRAY 3 AUGUST 1871 201 TO A GRAY 3 JUNE [1874] 202 FROM A GRAY 16 …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … 1871, but dates others (still with the spotted waistcoat) to 1874. Elliott and Fry were …
- … Table in November 1876. The Pictorial World of 6 June 1874 published a wood engraving which …
- … taken in summer 1869 and summer 1871, possible also in 1874. computer-readable date c …
- … 140.1.9). Wood engraving in The Pictorial World (6 June 1874), p. 228 (DAR 140.1.3). Another …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
