From Alfred Newton 9 April 1869
Summary
Regrets Frank [Darwin] did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva voce part.
Pleased CD is willing to help the University’s Museum of Zoology; he encloses the printed appeal.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6694 |
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- … did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva …
- … son Frank was not successful in the Examination for the Trinity Scholarship—but it affords …
- … especially in the vivâ voce part of the examination. I believe that my regret is fully …
From Alfred Newton 29 January 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for present [of Variation].
Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5810 |
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- … George Howard Darwin was second in the final examination for the mathematical tripos at …
From Alfred Newton 29 May 1871
Summary
[Reference to Japanese nuthatch (see Descent, 2d ed., p. 410 n.) excised from letter.]
Sorry they will not have Frank Darwin with them any more.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 170–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7778 |
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- … birds. ’ Francis Darwin had completed his examinations for a degree in natural sciences at …
From Alfred Newton 2 April 1864
Summary
Marvels that seeds from the lump of clay on the partridge’s foot have germinated. At Zoological Society [J. E.?] Gray ridiculed him. Now Frank Buckland would like to see the specimen.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4446 |
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- … interested with the results of your examination of the lump of earth attached to the Red- …
From Alfred Newton 31 October 1863
Summary
Tells CD where to pick up the partridge’s foot with the ball of earth attached; sends a copy of his remarks on the same. [See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 13 (1864): 99–101.]
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4326 |
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- … whether you find this to be the case on examination. When I exhibited the specimen at the …
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Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
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In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … rotundifolia tentacles, Francis had to delay further examinations . His father encouraged …
Correspondence with women
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We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories. Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…
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- … of women was maintained artificially by their exclusion from examinations and learned societies. He …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … was becoming determined by qualifications and entry examinations. This made their choice of private …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … been so much observed of late and which in the course of our examinations for Genera Plantarum had …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … able properly to consider the results of his and others’ examinations of the Beagle specimens …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … (George and Leonard), who had recently excelled in their examinations. Darwin himself was described …
