From Gaston de Saporta 16 December 1877
Summary
He has heard CD is about to be elected to the Académie des Sciences.
Cross and self-fertilisation, with its emphasis on insect pollination, helps explain the problem he has worked on for so long: i.e., the rapid diversification of angiosperms in the fossil record occurs in conjunction with the diversification of insects.
| Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11281 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … étant antérieure et aux avortements de parties et à la dioïcité dont le Ceratonia donne l’ …
- … être certainement du nombre. La réduction du parties, leur avortement, l’adaptation l’ …
- … ornementation l’ampleur et l’irrégularité des parties qui accompagnent les organes sexuels …
- … a commencé à se constituer— Les fleurs à parties nombreuses, multiples, d’une part et, de …
- … proviennent les uns et les autres des mêmes parties transformées— une fin le strobile …
- … se modifiant par suite du voisinage des parties sexuées ont donné lieu aux pieces et aux …
- … multiples, 2 ou ses multiples qui régit les parties de la fleur chez les Dicotylédons— c’ …
- … entier est l’origine de toutes des fleurs à parties multiples de celles dont la fleur de …
- … sexué ne comprenait qu’un petit nombre de parties, situés vers la sommité d’un rameau et …
- … isolées, formées d’un nombre restreint de parties sexuées— Dans mon hypothèse la prèsence …
- … dans beaucoup de plantes, l’ensemble des parties florales, le rameau eu plutôt la branche …
- … avortement, développement de leur parties composantes— de là retour non seulement à la …
To C. E. Norton 16 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].
Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10895 |
From C. C. Graham 30 January 1877
Summary
He has defended Tyndall, CD, and others against attacks of a clergyman.
| Author: | Christopher Columbus Graham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 83–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10821 |
From Emile Alglave 13 January 1877
Summary
Asks whether CD has any observations to make on J. R. L. Delboeuf’s article ["Les mathématiques et la transformisme"] in Revue Scientifique [2d ser. 29 (1877): 669–79]. He would be pleased to receive a letter or article for publication.
| Author: | Émile Alglave |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10786 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … sur les iles volcaniques et certaines parties de l’Amerique du Sud J’en ferais rendre …
To C. E. Norton 25 October 1877
Summary
CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1597) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11208 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to give my kindest remembrances to all your party, whom I know, & if I may be permitted to …
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1877
Summary
JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 90–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11006 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … travelled across the United States with a party that included Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden …
To Leonard Darwin 31 March 1877
Summary
Is "awfully glad" at LD’s appointment [as an instructor at Chatham].
Thinks LD should start reading chemistry "though reading does not do much".
Reports scientific work of George and Frank Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10919 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Miss Shaen, and we are a very pleasant party Be sure let us hear all about your plans | My …
To H. E. Litchfield 4 October [1877]
Summary
Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.
Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11167 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … employed by a traveller or travelling party on the continent, having the duty of making …
From Ernst Krause 14 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for permission to print ["Sketch of an infant"] in Kosmos.
Discusses children’s ability to distinguish colours.
Describes disagreements among German supporters of CD. Discusses reaction of German protestants to Darwinism.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11054 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … results. Sadly the division among the parties is very great. Prof. Wagner will not …
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| Alglave, Émile | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Graham, C. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Norton, C. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Norton, C. E. | (2) |
| Alglave, Émile | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Anne Schlabach Burkhardt (1916–2012)
Summary
Anne Burkhardt was associated with the Darwin Correspondence Project from its beginning in 1974, and her contribution to its work helped ensure the regular publication of the volumes of correspondence. Anne was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and studied…
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- … it became positively dangerous to attend Bennington cocktail parties, for even the slightest hint of …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … composed specially for the occasion. He avoided dinner parties and used his spare time to scout …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
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,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … be attended to by requiring a clean bill of health in both parties before marriage, and ultimately …
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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- … at the botanical lectures, excursions, and undergraduate parties organised by the professor of …
Darwin’s first love
Summary
Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties almost every night. They show how …
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…
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…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 6 hits
- … that time – the frequent predatory excursions of minor parties of Indians have prevented the …
- … was settled in full independence of Mr H’s dictation – parties of them resorted to him with …
- … as many as might come to him to beg for it – as the former parties had done – [ f.184v p.76 ] …
- … by any other designation than “Excursions” of picnic ^parties^ “on pleasure bent” &c. …
- … been drawn up for us – by able and disinterested third parties – than draw these for one another – …
- … ] Arbitrator between both parties – but felt disposed to lean to the …
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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- … teaching under certain conditions, but the Bill left many parties unsatisfied and the controversy …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
Summary
Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … an earlier passage, describes it as a race from which both parties benefit. Nowadays, we are …
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … . In Castelnau, Francis de, Expédition dans les parties centrales de l’Amérique du Sud … …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … Darwin spent over a month corresponding with the various parties, repeatedly revising his own letter …
