From Ferdinand von Hochstetter 26 March 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for advice received before his Novara voyage. Sends volumes [Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde … Geologischer Theil, ed. FCvH, 2 vols. in 3 (1864–6)].
| Author: | Ferdinand von Hochstetter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6057 |
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- … DAR 166: 223 Ferdinand von Hochstetter Vienna 26 Mar 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Professor at the Polytechnical Institute of Vienna Charles Darwin Esq. | Down | England …
- … in the Darwin Library–Down. Hochstetter refers to the firm Carl Gerold’s Sohn of Vienna. …
- … Vol. 2 (part 1) Geologische Beobachtungen. Vienna: Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und …
- … Vienna, 26 March 1868. Highly honoured Sir, I still remember vividly and with feelings of …
- … 3 volumes) to the book store Gerold & Cie in Vienna so that they can post it to you in my …
From Karl von Scherzer 20 October 1868
Summary
Describes departure of expedition to China, Japan, and South America.
Copy of CD’s queries provided to expedition.
Invites CD to make suggestions for scientific work to be carried out.
| Author: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6425 |
From Daniel Oliver [before February 1868]
Summary
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5824F |
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- … naturalem spectantia. 2 vols. in 1. Vienna: Krausiana. Koch, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph. 1843– …
From Fritz Müller 31 October 1868
Summary
Writes on various observations and discoveries on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 142: 98, 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6439 |
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- … disposita. With 4 supplements; in 2 vols. Vienna: Friedrich Beck. Forms of flowers : The …
To Ferdinand von Hochstetter 31 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks for gift of work on the geology of the Novara expedition
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand von Hochstetter |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | A. von Hochstetter (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6075F |
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- … Vol. 2 (part 1) Geologische Beobachtungen. Vienna: Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und …
From A. B. Meyer 15 September 1868
Summary
Sends essay by Karl Bettelheim.
Describes preparations for scientific journey.
| Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6366 |
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- … of my friend, Dr. Karl Bettelheim in Vienna, allow me to present you with this little …
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1868
Summary
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5831 |
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- … nordische Erzählung nach Albrecht Dürer. Vienna: Haas. Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, …
From Friedrich Rolle 20 November 1868
Summary
Has little information about hens with spurs. Encloses information from Robert Oettel and C. F. Friderich, and from J. F. Blumenbach’s Vergleichende Anatomie [1805]. Recommends various German publications.
| Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6468 |
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- … Mr. G. Schwartz von Mohrenstern in Vienna is still working on his monograph on …
From Robert McLachlan 21 February 1868
Summary
On numerical proportions of sexes in insects; coloration. Dimorphism in dragonflies (Agrion) in which usual coloration is reversed in sexes [see Descent 1: 362–4].
Wallace seems to ride his hobby too hard.
| Author: | Robert McLachlan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A8–9, DAR 82: A88–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5910 |
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- … a paper from my friend Herr Brauer of Vienna, the well known Neuropterist, in which he …
From Friedrich Rolle 28 May 1868
Summary
Questions CD’s view in Variation that Torfschwein formerly ranged from Europe to China.
Cites numerous German publications relating to CD’s theory.
| Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 204 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6213 |
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- … series of essays by Professor Unger in Vienna, “Botanische Streifzüge auf dem Gebiete der …
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hochstetter, Ferdinand von | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
| Meyer, A. B. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Rolle, Friedrich | (2) |
| Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hochstetter, Ferdinand von | (2) |
| Rolle, Friedrich | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
Vienna, Austria
Summary
Expedition to Eastern Asia
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- … A copy of Darwin's queries on expression has been provided to an expedition to China, Japan, and …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … officer in the Finanz-Landesdirektion in Vienna; Oberfinanzrat (1892); Hofrat and …
- … Bartsch became member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, served there as librarian (1874 …
- … served as librarian of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna and later became a board member of …
- … He studied jurisprudence (Dr.) and worked as a lawyer in Vienna. Additionally, Berggruen became a …
- … graphischen Künste”. He co-founded the Scientific Club in Vienna (1876) and moved from Vienna to …
- … became director of the Imperial Telegraph Office (1857) in Vienna and high official ( …
- … major in the Mexican Army. In 1867, Equevilley went back to Vienna, where he lived as an independent …
- … 1876, Gagern served as secretary of the Scientific Club in Vienna. U. Jütte: Carlos de …
- … at the Imperial Geological Survey (1864–67) in Vienna. Afterwards, Groeger traveled to South Africa …
- … became a member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, collected algae (particularly …
- … assigned to the uniform depot in the casern Arsenal in Vienna. There, Hausner became member of …
- … of the uniform depot in Brno (ca. 1881) and moved back to Vienna after retirement. J. …
- … serving as a volunteer in the Imperial Natural Cabinet in Vienna, Heller obtained a position as …
- … natural history in the Theresianische Akademie in Vienna and published the books “Darwin und der …
- … After studying jurisprudence at the University of Vienna (1863–68) and working for the Ministry of …
- … Carnuntum (1884) and the Scientific Club (1876) in Vienna. Doblhoff-Dier J. v.: Doblhoff …
- … and cooperated with the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Keller undertook long collecting journeys …
- … as board member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna for 25 years. F. Spaeth: …
- … as the assistant of Ludwig Schmarda at the University of Vienna and finally got a position at the …
- … vice-president (1896) of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, extraordinary professor at the …
- … 1854–1925 Geographer As the son of Vienna’s chief constable, he studied geography at …
- … and vice-president of the Geographical Society in Vienna. N.N.: Sektionschef Le Monnier. In …
- … scholar Student of philosophy at the University of Vienna during the 1870s, co-founder and …
- … science. In later years, Nußbaumer became board member of Vienna's society for women’s rights …
- … 1837, he became Amanuensis of the Imperial Library in Vienna and four years later archivist in …
- … of grammar and writing at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna (1847), editor-in-chief of the …
- … the Education of Blind ( Blinden-Erziehungsinstitut ) in Vienna. A. Melhuber: Pablasek, …
- … natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Vienna, he became teacher at different Ober …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … (8) Anthropological Society, Vienna (1) …
4.45 'Puck' cartoon 2
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< Back to Introduction In Reason Against Unreason, a cartoon published shortly before Darwin’s death, the American humorous magazine Puck had celebrated him as the embodiment of ‘Reason’. Now, a month after his death, an imaginative drawing in the…
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- … and also contributed to satirical and political magazines in Vienna. physical …
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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- … good Endlicher has pub. in 1 st vol of Annals of Vienna [Endlicher 1836]. sketch of S. sea …
- … Home Library L d Ellsmere Siege of Vienna [Schimmer 1847] …
- … 2 d . vol very good —— L. Ellsmere Siege of Vienna [Schimmer 1847].— good Sept 12 …
- … 1852] 85 Read F. Unger. Versuch einer Gesichte Vienna 1852 [Unger 1852]. 86 p.p. 364. 8 …
- … 4v. Schimmer, Karl August. 1847. The sieges of Vienna by the Turks . Translated from …
- … 1852. Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzenwelt . Vienna. [Darwin Library.] *128: 182 …
- … Die Naturgeschichte der nutzbaren Haussäugethiere . Vienna. [Darwin Library.] 128: 16 …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … 20 Oct 1868 Ministry of Commerce, Vienna, Austria will …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
