To John Lubbock 23 [February 1863]
Summary
CD’s comments on JL’s paper [first part of "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 23 [Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3939 |
To Asa Gray 23 February [1863]
Summary
Recommends Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Quotes praise of AG’s pamphlet [see 2938].
Comments on U. S. politics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (55) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4006 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 February 1863]
Summary
Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 105–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4007 |
From Hermann Crüger 23 February 1863
Summary
Will observe fertilisation of melastomads as CD requests.
Observations on fertilisation by ants.
Detailed observations on sexes in Catasetum, which were made before he received Orchids and which differ from CD’s findings.
| Author: | Hermann Crüger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4008 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Crüger, Hermann | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
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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- … < Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was …
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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Santa Fé, Argentina
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Inland trips
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- … Writes of his journey from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca, and his illness on an expedition to Santa Fé …
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … 21st Sept. 1831'. For goodness sake what is No. 223— it looks like the remains of …
Richard Matthews
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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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- … determined to stay with the Fuegians’ (Darwin 1845, p. 223). When all seemed well the following …
The origin of language
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Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of his wide-ranging speculations about the transmutation of species. In his private notebooks, he reflected on the communicative powers of animals, their…
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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1.6 Ouless oil portrait
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< Back to Introduction The first commissioned oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Walter William Ouless, who was given sittings at Down House in March 1875. The idea for such a portrait came from Darwin’s son William, who as far back as 1872 had…
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- … , 3 vols (London: John Murray, 1887), vol. 3, pp. 195, 223. John Peile, Christ’s College (London …
Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
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- … The revised sketch and final bill are in DAR 139.17: 22–3. They are not reproduced here as the main …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … pyramid as in the case of ordinary cells.’ ( Origin , p. 223.) The cells were built up in a …
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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- … Recorder , 28 June 1836, Collected papers 1: 22–3). Taxidermy.(Letter to Susan Darwin, …
