To Henry Walter Bates 12 January [1863]
Summary
Asa Gray will try to get HWB’s paper reviewed.
Also mentions that he (CD) wrote a short review of it for Natural History Review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Asks whether bees or Lepidoptera visit flowers of Melastomataceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 12 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3911 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
- … by the reference to the reviews of Bates 1861 (see nn. 2 and 3, below). The letter from …
- … of the Linnean Society of London in November 1862 ( Bates 1861 ). CD had asked …
- … Gray to find a colleague to review Bates 1861 , an account of mimetic resemblances in …
- … vol. 10). CD’s review of Bates 1861 ( ‘Review of Bates on mimetic butterflies’ ) appeared …
- … had been experimenting with the family since 1861 (see letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] …
- … 7] November [1862] ). The review of Bates 1861 published in the September 1863 number of …
From H. B. Dobell 5 March 1863
Summary
At CD’s request HBD has traced the quotation; it is on regeneration from Charles White in W. B. Carpenter’s Comparative physiology (1854), p. 480.
Is gratified that CD thinks some of the arguments in his book [Lectures on the germs of disease (1861)] are satisfactory.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4027 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 59). See letter to H. B. Dobell, 16 February [1863] . The reference is to Dobell 1861 . …
- … of the arguments in his book [ Lectures on the germs of disease (1861)] are satisfactory. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Dobell, Horace. 1861. Lectures on the germs and vestiges of …
- … details about a reference in Dobell 1861 to the work of Charles White on the regeneration …
To W. E. Darwin [10 May 1863]
Summary
Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.
Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [10 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4151 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … W. E. Darwin, 17 [October 1861] , and letter from W. …
- … E. Darwin, [17 November 1861] ). Bates 1863 . …
- … towards William when he joined the bank in 1861 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to …
- … Pseudofumaria lutea ) in 1858, 1859, and 1861; his notes are in DAR 76: 13, 15–17, and DAR …
- … on species of Fumaria , dated 1858, 1861, and 1863, are in DAR 76: 13–21. CD summarised …
To John Scott 21 January [1863]
Summary
Urges JS to publish on orchid pollen-tubes.
Suggests comparing stigmatic tissue of sterile hybrids and fertile parent; he would expect hybrid plant’s cell contents not to be coagulated after 24 hours in spirits of wine.
Suggests JS coat orchid stigmas with plaster of Paris for his work on rostellar germination.
Asks for list of "bud-variation" cases; CD has devoted a chapter to the subject.
Inquiries about I. Anderson-Henry’s observational competence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 21 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B56–7, B75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3934 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Bibliography Baillon, Ernest Henri. 1861. Sur l’émission des tubes …
- … polliniques des Helianthemum. Adansonia 2 (1861–2): 56–9. …
- … Bridgman, William Kencely. 1861. On the influence of the venation in the reproduction of …
- … of Horticulture n.s. 2 (1861): 41–3). Scott’s reply has not been found (see letter to …
- … Oliver] 1862a, p. 419), and to Baillon 1861 , p. 56. In his letter to CD of 16 January …
- … the reader was referred to Bridgman 1861 and Scott 1862a ( Variation 1: 383). William …
- … the Gardeners’ Chronicle and the Journal of Horticulture in 1861 ( Gardeners’ Chronicle , …
- … 11 May 1861, pp. 432–3; Journal …
From James Paget 7 February 1863
Summary
Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3971 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s …
- … University Press. 1985–. Dobell, Horace. 1861. Lectures on the germs and vestiges of …
- … medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the …
- … from H. B. Dobell, 12 May 1863 . Dobell 1861 . There is a copy of Horace Benge Dobell’s …
- … his own theory of disease (see Dobell 1861 , pp. 46–7, 169–70, and letter to H. B. …
To Isaac Anderson-Henry 20 January [1863]
Summary
Discusses hybrid strawberry–raspberry
and his research on Primula and Linum.
Suggests breeding experiments.
Doubtful about Donald Beaton’s statement about Pelargonium.
Mentions experiments on peloric flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Date: | 20 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3929 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Gardener 24: 253–5. Beaton, Donald. 1861. Fertilisation of wheat. Journal of Horticulture …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
- … Horticulture ; the reference is to Beaton 1861 , pp. 312–13. See also Beaton 1860 , pp. …
- … and Correspondence vol. 9, letters to Journal of Horticulture , [17 May 1861] and [before …
- … 9 July 1861], and letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 14 May [1861] and …
- … 18 [May 1861] . See Appendix V for Beaton’s responses to CD in the Journal …
- … study of the Melastomataceae, begun in 1861, in January 1863 (see letter to Hugh Falconer, …
From Friedrich Rolle 26 January 1863
Summary
Pleased that his book, Ch. Darwin’s Lehre [1863], has CD’s approval.
FR formerly a geologist, now a dealer in natural history objects.
Most active supporter of CD’s theory is Gustav Jäger in Vienna.
FR regards fossil Hipparion as a link between horse and pachyderms.
Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3947 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … University Press. Weinland, David Friedrich. 1861. [Review of Origin & other works. ] Der …
- … 1858 ( Zoologischer Beobachter 57 (1916): 160). In February 1861, he published a short but …
- … favourable review of Origin ( Weinland 1861 ). Hensel had been a tutor in natural history …
- … John Murray. 1859. Pelzeln, August von. 1861. Bemerkungen gegen Darwin’s Theorie vom …
- … Ursprung der Spezies. Wien bei Pichler 1861. 8 o . 17 pag. ) Diese Flugschrift ist aber so …
- … vom Ursprung der Spezies. Wien bei Pichler 1861. 8 o . 17 pag. ) However, this pamphlet is …
- … and which was later published as Pelzeln 1861 ; CD’s annotated copy of this work is in the …
- … 1862 ; see also n. 7, above). Pelzeln 1861 . See n. 8, above. Jäger’s lecture in support …
To the Geological Society of London [c. 28 December 1863]
Summary
Recommendation of the admission of George Maw to the fellowship of the Geological Society of London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | [c. 28 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/F/1/6 No.2179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … of London. 1853–86. [Maw, George. ] 1861. [ Review of Origin & other works. ] Zoologist …
- … the Society of Antiquaries of London 1861). The document also refers to Maw’s fellowship …
- … Maw initiated a correspondence with CD in March 1861, and sent CD a presentation copy …
- … of his review of Origin in July 1861 ( [ …
- … Maw] 1861 ). See Correspondence vol. …
- … 9, letter to George Maw, 13 July [1861] . See also Correspondence vol. 10, and this …
To Asa Gray 2 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
- … The story of the Lancashire cotton famine, 1861–5. London: Temple Smith. [Vols. 10,11] …
- … 1862] ). In his letter of 11 October 1861 ( Correspondence vol. 9), Gray suggested that …
- … condition in Primula ’ , which was read in 1861 and published in the same journal in 1862. …
- … see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 9 November 1861 , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 18 [December 1861] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 15 …
- … Asa Gray, [27 and 29 August] and 2 September [1861] . George Henry Kendrick Thwaites was …
- … on Welwitschia since as early as October 1861 (see, for instance, Correspondence vol. 9, …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 October [1861] and n. 4, and Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
To George Bentham 15 April [1863]
Summary
Sends GB a selection of reviews of the Origin from his collection of about 90, with his opinion of some of them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 15 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4100 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … de la Rive 1860 , Bronn trans. 1860, and Claparède 1861 ( Bentham 1863 , p. xvii). …
- … 7 (1864): xi–xxix. Claparède, Edouard. 1861. M. Darwin et sa théorie de la formation des …
- … Publishing. 1990. [Maw, George. ] 1861. [Review of Origin & other works. ] Zoologist 19: …
- … 2). There is an annotated copy of Claparède 1861 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … to George Maw’s review of Origin ( [Maw] 1861 ). There is an annotated copy in the Darwin …
From H. W. Bates 8 April 1863
Summary
Preparations under way to move to London account for delay in thanking CD for his review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
His book is finished, and he is sending a copy to CD; owing to the great expense few copies will be sent to reviewers.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4079 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
- … refers to CD’s anonymous review of Bates 1861 , which appeared in the April 1863 number of …
- … 193). Concluding his review of Bates 1861 ( ‘Review of Bates on mimetic butterflies’ , …
- … 9, letter to H. W. Bates, 25 September [1861] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to …
From H. W. Bates 17 January [1863]
Summary
Has sent copy of his paper to Asa Gray.
Melastomad flowers are strikingly neglected by pollinators.
Murray has ordered many illustrations for HWB’s Naturalist on the river Amazons.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 67 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3925 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
- … him that he had written the review of Bates 1861 that was to appear in the next number of …
- … resemblances in Amazonian Lepidoptera ( Bates 1861 ; see Correspondence vol. 10, letters …
- … Gray himself wrote the review of Bates 1861 that was published in the September 1863 …
To George Maw 28 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks GM for a curious lily.
Recommends some papers on coal.
Gives his opinion on the importance of forming theories if one is to be a good and original observer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 28 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4018 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 1859): 21–37; 30 (1860): 63–74, 367–84; 32 (1861): 15–25, 193–205; 33 (1862): 206–16; 35 ( …
- … had published a review of Origin ( [Maw] 1861 ) in which he made a number of criticisms …
- … vol. 9, letter to George Maw, 19 July [1861] ). Lesquereux had argued ( Lesquereux 1859– …
- … species. See letter from William Duppa Crotch, 25 January 1861 ( Correspondence vol. 9). …
- … 1863): 375–86. [Maw, George. ] 1861. [Review of Origin & other works. ] Zoologist 19: …
To H. W. Bates 4 March [1863]
Summary
CD relates Asa Gray’s pleasure over HWB’s paper and Gray’s plans to write abstract [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 4 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4022 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
- … 1863] . Bates had sent a copy of Bates 1861 to Gray in January, after CD had persuaded …
- … of the truth of the theory’ ( Bates 1861 , p. 513). In his paper proposing a revision of …
- … s reviews of A. de Candolle 1862a and Bates 1861 appeared in the May and September 1863 …
To Friedrich Rolle 30 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks FR for sketch of progress of evolutionary theory in Germany.
Compliments to Gustav Jäger.
Comments on FR’s book [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
Date: | 30 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3954 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 718–26). See also Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Ludwig Rütimeyer, 5 December [1861] . …
- … cited Ludwig Rütimeyer’s work ( Rütimeyer 1861 ) in corroboration of CD’s theory (see …
- … annotated presentation copy of Rütimeyer 1861 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
- … J. C. Hermann. Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1861. Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten in der Schweiz. …
To Horace Benge Dobell 16 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks HBD for his lectures On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861].
Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. ("force exhibited in the operations of life") is not a "given quantity" is satisfactory.
How far the conditions of life affect the forms of organic life puzzles CD more than any other part of his subject. Thinks he may have underrated its importance in Origin.
Asks for source of the quotation on regeneration in HBD’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3990 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861]. Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. (" …
- … 5 March 1863 . The reference is to Dobell 1861 , which was sent with the letter from James …
- … of the animal organism ’ ( Dobell 1861 , p. 9). Dobell argued that ‘the V.M.F. may be …
- … University Press. 1985–. Dobell, Horace. 1861. Lectures on the germs and vestiges of …
- … refers to the following passage in Dobell 1861 , p. 46: If I am right in affirming that …
From H. W. Bates 24 October 1863
Summary
Returns Gray’s review [of paper on mimetic analogy, Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90]
and expresses his sorrow over CD’s health.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323 |
To Asa Gray 20 March [1863]
Summary
Discusses the meaning of C. K. Sprengel’s term "dichogamy". Dichogamous plants are functionally monoecious; Primula is functionally dioecious.
Reports Hermann Crüger’s observations of Cattleya and of bees pollinating Catasetum. Crüger will observe Melastomataceae.
Has built a hothouse.
Fears Amsinckia cannot be dimorphic.
Ill health slows his work on Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4053 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Collier Macmillan. Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the …
- … Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
- … vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 , and Correspondence vol. 10, letters to …
- … 1862 ). Gray evidently discussed Bates 1861 in a letter to CD written on 9 February 1863 …
- … see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 9 November 1861 , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 18 [December 1861] ). CD subsequently grew plants from seed in order to …
From Asa Gray 7 July 1863
Summary
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 127, 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4234 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
- … planned to reprint extracts from Bates 1861 in the May 1863 issue of the American Journal …
- … prepared a review abstract of Bates 1861 for the September 1863 issue of the American …
- … A. Gray 1863c ). In his review of Bates 1861 ( ‘Review of Bates on mimetic butterflies’ , …
To H. W. Bates 30 April [1863]
Summary
After finishing vol. 2 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons], CD still has only praise. Remarks that his family is also enjoying the book. He regrets having finished, since he so enjoyed the descriptions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 30 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4132 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bates 1863 and to CD’s review of Bates 1861 ( ‘Review of Bates on mimetic butterflies’ ). …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
- … s account of mimetic butterflies ( Bates 1861 ) appeared in the September number of the …
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Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
Summary
The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
Matches: 29 hits
- … The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. By then, …
- … , developed into an intensive study of the phenomenon in 1861. Orchids, in particular the …
- … good service’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 26–7 Februrary [1861] ). Darwin drew up a carefully thought …
- … Charles Lyell ( see letter to Charles Lyell, 20 July [1861] ). One reason for Darwin’s interest in …
- … proved’ ( see second letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [April 1861] ). Darwin continued to stress to his …
- … followed in Origin was singled out for praise in 1861. He had been disappointed to learn of John …
- … a committed crusader, Darwin wrote to Herschel, on 23 May [1861]: 'You will think me very …
- … to such a subject’ ( letter from Henry Fawcett, 16 July [1861] ). Mill in fact included a brief …
- … of any service!’ ( letter to Henry Fawcett, 18 September [1861] ). Darwin added some new …
- … the geological record ( see letter to George Maw, 19 July [1861] ). The American palaeontologist …
- … opportunity’ ( letter from Joseph Leidy, 4 March [1861] ). However, the publication of Leidy’s …
- … her new species’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 28 March [1861] ). Mimicry Bates' …
- … was evident. He told Darwin in his letter of [1 December] 1861: I think the whole tenour …
- … set is free’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 30 September 1861 ). As Peter Bowler has commented, …
- … to Nat. History.—’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, 4 April [1861] ). He also advised that the public …
- … poor cousins.—’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, 3 December [1861] ). Darwin volunteered to read some of …
- … for the work ( letter to H. W. Bates, 25 September [1861] ). Nevertheless, many naturalists were …
- … and awful smasher’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 January [1861] ). Ever since Owen’s highly critical …
- … be friends again’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 January [1861] ). Friends and family …
- … formed a lasting bond between the two women. In May 1861 Darwin offered consolation to his …
- … walked this earth’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [May 1861] ). Henslow had been a uniquely …
- … a major preoccupation of Darwin’s during the course of 1861. Projects begun the previous summer as …
- … on Hybridisation’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 September [1861] ). But it was his study of …
- … the contrivances.–-’ ( letter of [28 July–10 August 1861] ). Later in the year, he went even …
- … Darwin pursued this study doggedly throughout the summer of 1861, writing to anyone he thought might …
- … of species’ ( letter to Henry Fawcett, 18 September [1861] ), Darwin conceived of the orchid work, …
- … in publishing’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1861] ). Nevertheless, Darwin immediately …
- … to Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefage de Bréau, 25 April [1861] ). By the end of May, however, he had …
- … geology features prominently in the correspondence of 1861. Here, it was Charles Lyell who continued …
Darwin & Glen Roy
Summary
Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Letter 3054: Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 2 Feb [1861] If the descent of languages was …
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…
Matches: 17 hits
- … evidence to establish the age of the human race. In 1861, Lubbock joined Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … geologico-archaeological researches in Denmark’ (Lubbock 1861) for the October 1861 issue. The …
- … source of many of the ‘details’ for his article (Lubbock 1861, p. 494). Meanwhile, Lubbock continued …
- … type for Elements of geology in 1860 and then re-set in 1861 for Antiquity of man (see below …
- … in the October Number of the Natural History Review , 1861, p. 489, in which he has described the …
- … note on p. 11 of C. Lyell 1863c, which implied that Lubbock 1861 had been written after the chapter …
- … similarity of certain passages in C. Lyell 1863c and Lubbock 1861 (and consequently in Lubbock 1865) …
- … explaining his position and citing passages in Lubbock 1861 and C. Lyell 1863c that were almost …
- … was not original work (Lubbock had based much of his 1861 article on earlier Danish studies) it …
- … which were published in the interval between the autumn of 1861 and February 1863. In this long …
- … a translation for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1861. 35 The distinguished …
- … the October number of the ‘Natural History Review’ for 1861, to improve the wording, and …
- … in the October Number of the Natural History Review, 1861, p. 489, in which he has described the …
- … in the October Number of the Natural History Review, 1861, p. 489, an able paper on the Danish …
- … 129–88; 15 (1863–66): 245–321. Lubbock, John. 1861. The kjökkenmöddings: recent geologico …
- … Naturelles 6: 263–328. Morlot, Charles Adolphe. 1861. General views on archæology. Annual …
- … and condition of the institution for the year 1860 15 (1861): 284–343. Translated by Philip Harry, …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
Summary
—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … July , August , and October , 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 8 hits
- … hopelessly in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of …
- … fire. Military drums. GRAY: 113 April 1861. We are now opening a war, upon the …
- … 1856 29 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 APRIL 1861 30 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, EARLY …
- … 16 FEB 1863 99 C DARWIN TO LYELL, 21 AUGUST 1861 100 A GRAY, ATLANTIC …
- … 3 JULY 1860 109 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 21 JULY 1861 110 QUOTED IN C …
- … 1862 131 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 DECEMBER 1861 132 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, …
- … FEBRUARY 1862 134 JD HOOKER TO A GRAY, 5 JULY 1861 135 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, …
- … 1864 162 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 DECEMBER 1861 163 C Darwin TO A Gray, …
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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- … his ill health (e.g., Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 14 May [1861] ) and family duties (Darwin to W. B. …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … miserably uncomfortable. Emma to Charles Darwin, 1861. I am …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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Darwin's bad days
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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
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- … and kidney beans To J. D. Hooker, 28 September [1861] : on Verbascum ‘I do not think any …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Julia Wedgwood
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Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, nonetheless, some women did read, review, and respond to Darwin’s work. One of these women was Darwin’s own niece, Julia Wedgwood, known in the family as “Snow”. In July…
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Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … of the courtship of fowls sent by Bernard Peirce Brent in 1861 , described by Darwin as ‘almost …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Letter 3316 - Darwin to Nevill, D. F., [12 November 1861] Darwin asks actress and …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … moved away from Down (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 December [1861] ). Darwin and Innes continued to …
Orchids
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
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- … 3286 - Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 15 October 1861 Darwin writes to JD Hooker, …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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…