To W. D. Fox 1 August [1831]
Summary
Will send his insects and two or three from Henslow.
The Canary scheme takes place next June.
Is grieved WDF thinks him capable of telling falsehoods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-103 |
To W. D. Fox [3 November 1829]
Summary
CD’s father has been very ill, but is now slowly improving.
Writes of Leonard Jenyns’ cabinet and J. S. Henslow’s parties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-74 |
To W. D. Fox [13 January 1830]
Summary
Has ordered a cabinet for his insects; hopes WDF will soon come to Cambridge to see his collection. Has exchanged specimens with Leonard Jenyns.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-76 |
To W. D. Fox [15 February 1831]
Summary
Informs WDF of a shipment of birds ready to be sent by Baker.
Urges WDF to read Herschel’s essay [A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy (1830)] in Lardner’s [Cabinet] Cyclopedia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [15 Feb 1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 37) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-94 |
To W. D. Fox [26 February 1829]
Summary
Entomological visits with F. W. Hope and J. F. Stephens in London. News of insects taken and birds shot.
Has been advised by his tutor to defer the "Little Go". Sends news of Cambridge friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-57 |
To W. D. Fox 14 June [1856]
Summary
Does not intend to work systematically on cats. Their origin is in doubt and they have been crossed too many ways.
It would be valuable to know whether half-bred ducks are fertile inter se or with a third breed. Is investigating this with pigeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 June [1856] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 98) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1901 |
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- … from thirty to forty large portfolios, in cabinets with labelled shelves, into which I can …
From W. D. Fox 29 August – 28 September 1832
Summary
He is staying on the Isle of Wight because he has been unwell. He is thought to be in danger of contracting consumption, and the climate is beneficial. He is convalescent now, but will spend the winter there.
Offers to forward any natural history stores CD may want.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug & 28 Sept 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-184 |
To W. D. Fox [25 March 1830]
Summary
CD has passed his "Little Go".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [25 Mar 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-78 |
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- … him a pair in the whole country. My new cabinet is come down & a gay little affair it …
To W. D. Fox [1 April 1830]
Summary
CD will remain in Cambridge during the whole vacation.
J. F. Stephens has been ill; hence no recent publications.
Has seen a good deal of J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-79 |
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- … I find I get on very slowly with my cabinet, & shall be very glad of your assistance. I …
To W. D. Fox [25 March 1843]
Summary
Sympathises with WDF’s persisting grief.
Describes Down House and additions being built, which interfere with Geology [of "Beagle"].
Bodily health is improved, but cannot stand mental excitement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [25 Mar 1843] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-665 |
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- … different. I was looking over my arranged cabinet (the only remnant, I have preserved of …
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People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
Summary
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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- … Tachinariia and volunteered at the Imperial Natural Cabinet. Between 1865 and 1872, he served as …
- … After serving as a volunteer in the Imperial Natural Cabinet in Vienna, Heller obtained a position …
- … of Vienna and finally got a position at the Imperial Natural Cabinet (1873). Subsequently, …
- … University of Vienna, he volunteered in the Imperial Natural Cabinet, specialized in Lepidoptera …
Gaston de Saporta
Summary
The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, marshalled similarities in physiology, behaviour and emotional…
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- … générale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du roy... Paris: L'Imprimerie …
3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1
Summary
< Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old and enfeebled Darwin on the verandah of Down House, there are at least two other images of him created by the same firm at this period of his life - perhaps even on…
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … was reproduced as a lantern slide and as a ‘carte’ or ‘cabinet’ picture, reduction in scale entailed …
3.20 Elliott and Fry, c.1880-1, verandah
Summary
< Back to Introduction In photographs of Darwin taken c.1880-1, the expression of energetic thought conveyed by photographs of earlier years gives way to the pathos of evident physical frailty. While Collier’s oil portrait of this time emphasises…
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
Summary
< 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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- … versions and formats as ‘cartes de visite’ or ‘cabinet’ pictures, sometimes with a facsimile of his …
3.21 Herbert Rose Barraud, photos
Summary
< Back to Introduction The successful portrait photographer Herbert Rose Barraud, who had studios in London and Liverpool, photographed Darwin in the summer of 1881, in a group of four or so close-up head-and-shoulders portraits. This was probably at…
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- … by Barraud himself. They appeared as ‘cartes’ and ‘cabinet’ portraits, sometimes with a facsimile of …
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
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< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
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- … were offering photographs in a variety of formats – ‘cabinet’ pictures or ‘cartes de visite’, even …
3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'
Summary
< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…
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- … and reworked over a long period. It appeared as a ‘cabinet’ card of ‘The late Charles Darwin’, …
John Maurice Herbert
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John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
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- … return home, he will be more valuable as a specimen for the Cabinet of the Antiquarian, than your …
Beauty and the seed
Summary
One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
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- … created that man might ages afterwards admire them in his cabinet?’ After mentioning sexual …
Plant or animal? (Or: Don’t try this at home!)
Summary
Darwin is famous for showing that humans are just another animal, but, in his later years in particular, his real passion was something even more ambitious: to show that there are no hard-and-fast boundaries between animals and plants. In 1875 Darwin…
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- … was also more fun. Darwin raided the kitchen, the medicine cabinet, the garden, and the lunch table …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
Summary
< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … which Legros had seen in the British Museum and in the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris: it was …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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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- … and physiological botany . (Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet cyclopædia .) London. [Darwin …
- … of natural philosophy . (Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet cyclopædia .) London. [Darwin Library.] …
- … 1837–9. A treatise on geology . 2 vols. (Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia.) London. [Darwin Library.] …
- … and classification of animals. (Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia.) London. [Darwin Library.] 119 …
ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
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- … In 1826, Darlington became a founder of the Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science, which built …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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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…
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- … … inclosed in a large spledid frame, for our Musium and cabinet of Natural History, where I hope it …
