From Joseph Fayrer 6 July 1874
Summary
Will do experiments CD suggests.
Is sending his book on the poisonous snakes of India [The Thanatophidia of India (1872)].
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9534 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From Joseph Fayrer 6 July 1874 …
- … Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet London, Granville Place, 16 6 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Joseph Fayrer, 4 July [1874] . See …
- … letter to Joseph Fayrer, 4 July [1874] and nn. 5 and 6. Fayrer refers to Thomas Lauder …
- … of Fayrer’s book, Thanatophidia of India ( Fayrer 1872 ), was published in February 1874 ( …
- … Fayrer 1874 ; see Publishers’ …
- … circular , 2 March 1874, p. 138). CD was …
- … for the wedding of Francis Darwin and Amy Ruck on 23 July 1874; his next visit to London …
- … was from 3 to 12 December 1874 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Fayrer wrote that the object …
- … J. and A. Churchill. Fayrer, Joseph. 1874. The Thanatophidia of India: being a description …
- … 16 Granville Place 6 July 1874 My dear Sir I will take the earliest opportunity of trying …
From G. H. Darwin 29 July 1874
Summary
After taking advice he has decided to write an explicit denial and short account of his essay and send it to the Quarterly Review.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9575 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From G. H. Darwin 29 July 1874 …
- … 37 George Howard Darwin Trinity College, Cambridge 29 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … publisher. No letter from George dated 28 July 1874 has been found. Reginald Darwin’s son, …
- … oppressive laws’ and the encouragement of vice ( [Mivart] 1874 , p. 70). See also letter …
- … to G. H. Darwin, [27 July 1874] . Henry Jackson . …
- … were at Abinger, Surrey, from 25 to 30 July 1874; on 30 July, they went to Southampton to …
- … Appendix II)). CD had been ill on 13 July 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George …
- … No. 273. (Letter to the editor, 7 August 1874. ) Quarterly Review 137: 587–8. Descent 2d …
- … Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874. Huxley, Leonard, ed. 1900. Life and letters …
- … Burnett Tylor. ] Quarterly Review 137 (1874): 40–77. Origin : On the origin of species by …
- … A letter sent by George on 7 August 1874 appeared in …
- … the October 1874 issue of Quarterly Review ( G. H. Darwin 1874b ). The editor of the …
- … Origin onwards. The sentence in [Mivart] 1874 , p. 63, reads: It is one of the calamities …
- … the Pall Mall Gazette , Monday, 27 July 1874, p. 10, argued that the reviewer’s purpose …
From J. V. Carus 7 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for proofs [of Descent, 2d English ed.].
Publisher would like better photographs for Expression [2d German ed.].
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9536 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From J. V. Carus 7 July 1874 …
- … DAR 161: 96 Julius Victor Carus Edinburgh 7 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … pp. 108–10. In the summers of 1873 and 1874, Carus gave a course of lectures on natural …
- … before 8 May 1873] , and this volume, letter from J. V. Carus, 19 January 1874 ). …
- … see letter to J. V. Carus, 17 June [1874] ). After visiting Frans Cornelis Donders in …
- … better’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 7 July 1874 ; DAR 239.23: 1.19). …
- … George arrived back at Down on 11 July 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Carus was …
- … George Street, | Edinburgh, 7 th . July | 1874 My dear Sir, I was very sorry to learn from …
- … foreign editions, including Carus trans. 1874, had been supplied by John Murray from the …
From J. D. Hooker 18 July 1874
Summary
Two Nepenthes have devoured two pieces of fibrin [sketch shows size] in three days.
Has CD any objection to JDH’s giving an account of CD’s Drosera observations at Belfast [BAAS meeting] in a résumé of pitcher-plant results ["Address to the department of botany and zoology", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16]?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 208–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9553 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 18 July 1874 …
- … DAR 103: 208–9 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 18 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … results ["Address to the department of botany and zoology", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16]? …
- … advice from CD (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [before 15 July 1874] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 July 1874 , and n. 4). CD was interested in the digestive ability of the …
- … performed at the Mozart Festival ( Theatrical Observer and Musical Review , 20 July 1874). …
- … for the Advancement of Science in August 1874 ( J. D. Hooker 1874a and 1874b). …
- … was a concert that took place on 16 July 1874, to raise funds for the Mozart Institution …
- … Observer and Musical Review , 20 July 1874). Emma Albani sang ‘Dove sono’, an aria from …
From J. D. Hooker 1 July 1874
Summary
Has "given the slip" to Nepenthes, but is setting a plant up in an enclosure for special observation.
Has some splendid Sarracenia and will perform any miracle regarding them CD puts him up to.
Charmed with CD’s account of Pinguicula. Would like to try whether Lychnis has the same use of viscid fluid.
Has written for English Utricularia for CD.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 200–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9526 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 1 July 1874 …
- … DAR 103: 200–1 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 1 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … on the stem. In his letter of 26 June 1874 , CD had asked Thiselton-Dyer whether they had …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 March [1874] and n. 12). Sarracenia (trumpet pitchers) …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 [June 1874] and n. 4). Lychnis viscosa is a synonym …
- … William Turner Thiselton-Dyer of 26 June 1874, CD mentioned that Hooker was going to try …
- … Hooker arrived at Down on Saturday 11 July 1874. In October and November 1873, Hooker had …
From J. D. Hooker 15 July 1874
Summary
Asks what can be the meaning of appendages to tips of leaflets of enclosed Acacia or Mimosa.
Is at fibrin today.
Michael Foster suggests coagulation of protoplasm may be diseased, not digestive, symptom.
F. M. Balfour is at Kew today.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 206–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9548 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 15 July 1874 …
- … DAR 103: 206–7 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 15 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [before 15 July 1874] ). Nepenthes is the genus of tropical pitcher- …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [before 15 July 1874] . Francis Maitland Balfour . According to …
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD had a bad attack of diarrhoea and sickness on 13 July 1874. …
- … bladderwort) was sent to CD on 19 September 1874 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Outwards …
- … nectar glands, and food bodies in Belt 1874 , pp. 218–20. The genus Acacia was formerly …
- … viscosa in his letter to Hooker of 2 July 1874 . ( Lychnis viscaria is a synonym, but the …
From Thomas Belt 28 July 1874
Summary
Has observed in his garden hive-bees using the holes bored at the base of flowers by humble-bees.
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C58–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9572 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Thomas Belt 28 July 1874 …
- … DAR 46.2: C58–9 Thomas Belt Ealing 28 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the bees that visited the flowers ( Farrer 1874 ). Farrer had described nectar excreted …
- … John Murray. 1876. Farrer, Thomas Henry. 1874. Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers— …
- … Coronilla. Nature , 2 July 1874, pp. 169–70. …
- … a published account by Belt (in Belt 1874 ) of a crop of Phaseolus multiflorus rendered …
- … Cornwall House Ealing July 28 th 1874 My Dear Sir, I send you the following as it may …
From Joseph Fayrer 22 July 1874
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9559 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Joseph Fayrer 22 July 1874 …
- … Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet London, Granville Place, 16 22 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of Francis Darwin and Amy Ruck on 23 July 1874, but no record of a visit to or from Fayrer …
- … J. and A. Churchill. Fayrer, Joseph. 1874. The Thanatophidia of India: being a description …
- … 16 Granville Place 22 July 1874 Dear Sir Many thanks for the book which has reached me …
- … s book on poisonous snakes of India (either Fayrer 1872 or Fayrer 1874 ; see letter from …
- … Joseph Fayrer, 6 July 1874 and n. 3). CD evidently commented on the book, but no letter …
- … venom (see letter to Joseph Fayrer, 4 July [1874] and n. 2). Results of experiments that …
From D. A. Spalding 21 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for CD’s son’s observations
and for allowing DAS to visit Down.
Author: | Douglas Alexander Spalding |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9557 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From D. A. Spalding 21 July 1874 …
- … DAR 177: 221 Douglas Alexander Spalding Chepstow 21 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … before 13 February 1873]). Spalding visited CD on 27 May 1874 (see letter to G. …
- … H. Darwin, 27 May [1874] ). …
- … see the letter to G. H. Darwin, 27 May [1874] . George Howard Darwin evidently sent some …
- … Katharine Louisa Russell ), in 1873. In May 1874, Frank became ill with diphtheria, but …
- … mother caught the disease and died in June 1874 ( Moorehead 1992 , p. 14). For more on …
From John Ralfs 9 July 1874
Summary
Sends specimens of Pinguicula and observations made on them. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 390–1.]
Author: | John Ralfs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 73–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9540 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From John Ralfs 9 July 1874 …
- … DAR 58.1: 73–4 John Ralfs Penzance 9 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … lusitanica is the pale butterwort; see letter to John Ralfs, 8 July 1874 , n. 2. …
- … See letter to John Ralfs, 8 July 1874 . See …
- … letter to John Ralfs, 8 July 1874 and n. 5. …
- … In his letter to Ralfs of 8 July 1874 , CD had requested specimens of both Pinguicula …
- … Penzance July 9 th 1874 My dear Sir, Yesterday I went to the Pingicula Grandiflora bog. I …
From J. D. Hooker 16 July [1874]
Summary
JDH has told Murray that the Quarterly Review article attacking George [Darwin] and CD [137 (1874): 40–77] was "as base as it was baseless".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9552 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 July 1874
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9537 |
Matches: 4 hits
From E. E. Klein 24 July 1874
Author: | Edward Emanuel Klein |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 57: 130v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9564 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From E. E. Klein 24 July 1874 …
- … DAR 57: 130v Edward Emanuel Klein Brown Institution 24 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … gravity of phosphate of ammonia (see letter to Edward Frankland, 22 July 1874 and n. 1). …
- … Institution, | Wandsworth Road, S.W. July 24, 1874. Dear Mr. Darwin, I am afraid I cannot …
- … see letter to F. C. Donders, 7 July 1874 ). CD had observed that a very small amount of …
From T. L. Brunton 23 July [1874]
Summary
Encloses a tracing of a portrait of John Bunyan showing the differences of the two sides of the face.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 339 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9561 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From T. L. Brunton 23 July [1874] …
- … Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet London, Somerset St, 23 23 July [1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and the letter to T. L. Brunton, 4 March 1874 . Brunton had argued that expression could …
- … He gave further examples in a now damaged section of his letter of 28 February 1874 . …
From J. D. Dana 21 July 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for Coral reefs [2d ed. (1874)].
JDD will correct his misunderstanding of CD on one point in the next edition of his book [Corals and coral islands].
Suggests CD consult Charles Wilkes’s Narrative [1844] for more accurate observations on Pacific islands.
Author: | James Dwight Dana |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A71–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9556 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From J. D. Dana 21 July 1874 …
- … DAR 69: A71–2 James Dwight Dana New Haven, Conn. 21 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Thanks CD for Coral reefs [2d ed. (1874)]. JDD will correct his misunderstanding of CD on …
- … Revised edition. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Couthouy, Joseph Pitty. 1842. Remarks …
- … New Haven, Conn. , July 21. | 1874. Mr Darwin— My dear Sir: I have received the copy of …
- … 1838–1842 and its publications, 1844–1874: a bibliography. New York: New York Public …
From John Price [27 July 1874]
Summary
Has some Utricularia minor for CD. Has found the bladders on U. vulgaris are not floats.
Thanks CD for book [Descent, 2d ed.].
Author: | John Price |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9522 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From John Price [27 July 1874] …
- … DAR 58.1: 143 John Price unstated [27 July 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Price, 28 July [1874] . See …
- … letter to John Price, 27 [July 1874] . Utricularia minor is lesser bladderwort. Delamere …
- … to Price in his letter to John Ralfs, 8 July 1874 . CD probably sent Price a copy of the …
From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1874
Summary
Stupefied by CD’s trouble and kindness. All he wanted for Belfast meeting was assurance that mention of published work on Drosera, etc., in Nature, etc., would not interfere with CD’s book.
Would like his Nepenthes results to go to CD or to Royal Society, but prefers CD take them.
Cephalotus very puzzling.
Peas and cabbage grow twice as fast after two days’ immersion in Nepenthes as when placed in distilled water, but four days’ immersion seems to kill them.
Has a splendid Australian Drosera twice as big as D. rotundifolia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 210–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9558 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1874 …
- … DAR 103: 210–13 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 22 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … sundew) in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 30 (1874): tab. 6121. The plant came from the …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 July [1874] and n. 2. CD’s letter included a summary of …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 July 1874 , and n. 3, below). CD had not published any …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [before 15 July 1874] ). Nepenthes rafflesiana is Raffles’ pitcher- …
From L. C. Harrison [1 July 1874]
Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 138v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9528 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From L. C. Harrison [1 July 1874] …
- … Lucy Caroline Wedgwood/Lucy Caroline Harrison unstated [1 July 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Harrison to Emma Darwin, [before 1 July 1874] and n. 2. Harrison refers to James Edward …
- … quoted in her letter of [before 1 July 1874] does not appear in the first edition of the …
From T. L. Marshall 16 July [1874]
Author: | Theodosia Louisa Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 123–4, 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9551 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From T. L. Marshall 16 July [1874] …
- … 58.1: 123–4, 127 Theodosia Louisa Marshall Keswick 16 July [1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Freeman 1977 ; see letter to Asa Gray, 3 June [1874] ). No letters to or from Henry Cowper …
- … in the now invalid order Homoptera. In 1874, 16 July was a Thursday. ‘ Thursday . . . now’ …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 June 1874 ). George Biddell Airy , the astronomer …
- … in the expedition to New Zealand (see letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] and n. 12). …
From David Moore 9 July 1874
Summary
Sends an Utricularia and a Drosophyllum.
Observations on Pinguicula grandiflora. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 390.]
Author: | David Moir; David Moore |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9541 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From David Moore 9 July 1874 …
- … 75–6 David Moir/David Moore Botanic Garden, Glasnevin 9 July 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to David Moore, 28 June 1874 . Utricularia vulgaris is common bladderwort. …
- … In his letter of 28 June 1874 , CD had mentioned his work on Drosophyllum (Portuguese …
- … Botanic Garden, Glasnevin. 9 th July 1874. My dear Sir A plant of Utricularia vulgaris has …
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (2) |
Klein, E. E. | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Baxter, E. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (2) |
Klein, E. E. | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Matches: 23 hits
- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the …
- … intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a Cambridge friend, …
- … and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such reminiscences led Darwin to …
- … much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). I feel very old & …
- … old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] ). Darwin mentioned his poor …
- … on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1874 ). Séances, psychics, and …
- … Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Later in the month, …
- … and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). Darwin agreed that it was ‘all …
- … perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874] ). This did not stop word getting …
- … at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). Back over old ground New …
- … Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January 1874 , letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 …
- … of correction’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 21 [March 1874] ). The book came out in June with the …
- … Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); however, he did not retract his …
- … dog breeders (letters from George Cupples, 21 February 1874 and 12 March 1874 ); the material …
- … Islands (Hawaii; letters from T. N. Staley, 12 February 1874 and 20 February 1874 ; letters …
- … islanders ( letter from William Dealtry, 16 January 1874 ). One of the most significant …
- … enemy into a jelly’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 April 1874 ). The technical nature of Huxley’s …
- … mind where it goes’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 April 1874 ). The second edition of …
- … would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Darwin's son George …
- … of your thought’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 April 1874 ). The Mivart affair …
- … mental and physical disorders (G. H. Darwin 1873b). In July 1874, an anonymous essay appeared in the …
- … libel’ on his son ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [27 July 1874] ). George, however, consulted with his …
- … [a] lying scoundrel’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). He drafted a brief statement of …
Darwin's 1874 letters go online
Summary
The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…
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- … of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. …
- … ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ) The Mivart affair highlights …
- … are some other highlights from Darwin's correspondence in 1874: I feel as old as …
- … signifying so much. ( Letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ) At the age of 65, Darwin …
- … more quietly was severely tested by some of the events of 1874. He had a clear idea of the shape of …
- … must be enough for me ( Letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ) During the year he …
- … the positive ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 August [1874] ) – he mourned after several …
- … day’s work ( Letter to D. F. Nevill, 18 September [1874] ) Darwin’s family continued …
- … have to do— ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 November [1874] ) Darwin’s continuing …
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: 16 hits
- … In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son …
- … appeared to have created very little stir, until, in July 1874, Mivart published an anonymous review …
- … of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 29 July 1874 ). Darwin hastily advised against …
- … to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). Darwin provided a draft of the …
- … to endorse them ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 August 1874 ). He sent a second draft, which Darwin …
- … a fair copy of his letter with his letter of 6 [August] 1874 . George and Darwin were also …
- … George’s letter to Murray with his letter of 11 August 1874 , and was no doubt relieved to …
- … to all he asked ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). In October, George’s letter …
- … a Pickwickian sense’ ( letter to John Murray, 18 October 1874 ). In other words, Mivart had used …
- … reaction was savage ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [6 December 1874] ). Hooker and Huxley between them …
- … the attack on George ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December 1874 ). Huxley met Mivart at an evening …
- … ( Enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 December 1874 .) A reply soon came from Mivart . …
- … of a gentleman’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 23 December 1874 ). However, Huxley still wrote to …
- … this. 124 Gower St W.C. Dec. 24th 1874. Private & Confidential …
- … to John Tyndall ( letter from John Tyndall, 28 December 1874 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 …
- … 16 January 1875, p. 66, signed, ‘The Quarterly Reviewer of 1874’. In it he reiterated his claim that …
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
Summary
You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … understand a word. Writing in French on 12 November 1874 to thank Darwin for the book, …
Joseph Simms
Summary
The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
Essay: What is Darwinism?
Summary
—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge …
Essay: Evolution & theology
Summary
—by Asa Gray EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward doctrines of evolution, from the nebular hypothesis down to ‘Darwinism,’ is no less worthy of consideration, and hardly less diverse, than that of…
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- … EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘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…
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- … attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, …
- … had also considered taking up the issue with Murray in 1874, even threatening to break off future …
- … laid to rest, another controversy was brewing. In December 1874, Darwin had been asked to sign a …
- … botanical research and had visited Down House in April 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letters …
- … A scientific friendship had developed between the men in 1874, and this was enhanced by Romanes’s …
- … white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ). Testing Pangenesis …
- … had learned of Lyell’s failing health from Hooker in 1874 and January 1875. On 22 February, he was …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … 9426 - Story-Maskelyne , T. M. to Darwin, [23 April 1874] Thereza Story-Maskelyne …
- … Letter 9616 - Marshall, T. to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall sends …
- … 9606 - Harrison, L. C. to Darwin, [22 August 1874] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, sends a …
- … Letter 9616 - Marshall, T. to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall details …
- … Letter 9485 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [8 June 1874] Mary Treat details her experiments …
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
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- … < Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’ s French-born artist Faustin …
- … this anti-Darwinian argument – a surprising one for 1874 – was genuine or tongue-in-cheek, it is …
- … appeared on the front page of the issue for 18 February 1874, surrounded by an elaborate wood …
- … The caricature of Darwin was not included until the May 1874 issue of the Sketch-Book (vol. 1, …
- … at bottom left. date of creation February 1874 computer-readable date c. …
- … of the Huntington Library. Figaro no. 475 (18 February 1874), cover illustration. James G. …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … started ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Darwin took Emma to a Sunday afternoon at …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum …
- … in 1879 and 1880. When Cosmic Philosophy appeared in 1874, Fiske sent Darwin a copy, but …
- … mind generally towards the doctrine of Evolution in 1874-1875. I like to keep this design before me …
- … bottom right) date of creation September 1874 computer-readable date 1874-09 …
- … and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: 474 (12 Sept. 1874), front page. John Fiske, Outlines …
- … and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and London: Macmillan, 1874); there were many subsequent editions. …
- … letters to Fiske about Outlines : DCP-LETT- 9706 (3 Nov. [1874]) and DCP-LETT- 9749 (8 Dec. [1874 …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … to Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 18 February 1874 ) Zouteveen’s editions of …
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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- … can be chloroformed (letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 December 1874 ). In the previous sections …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … A GRAY 3 AUGUST 1871 201 TO A GRAY 3 JUNE [1874] 202 FROM A GRAY 16 …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< 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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- … 1871, but dates others (still with the spotted waistcoat) to 1874. Elliott and Fry were …
- … Table in November 1876. The Pictorial World of 6 June 1874 published a wood engraving which …
- … taken in summer 1869 and summer 1871, possible also in 1874. computer-readable date c …
- … 140.1.9). Wood engraving in The Pictorial World (6 June 1874), p. 228 (DAR 140.1.3). Another …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…