From T. H. Huxley to G. G. Stokes 8 December 1864
Summary
THH never imagined that "we" referred to anyone but the [Royal] Society Council. Still objects to inclusion of the passage, since "an agreement to say nothing" [about the Origin] does not justify comment on it by one party to the agreement.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1385) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4706 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 18 March [1864]
Summary
Has six months’ leave from the Admiralty because of his health; intends going to Europe for four months.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 282 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4431 |
From B. J. Sulivan 23 September [1864]
Summary
BJS’s health much improved by his continental tour.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 283 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4622 |
From E. A. Darwin 15 December [1864]
Summary
Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4717 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … far as we can the Evans property & the parties will give an agreement to sign a release, …
From John Brodie Innes to Emma Darwin 16 January [1864]
Summary
Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4387 |
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- … With all our kindest regards to all your party | Believe me | Dear M rs . Darwin | Yours …
To William Erasmus Darwin [1 May 1864]
Summary
Writes of dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [1 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5127 |
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- … yesterday having walked from school, in 2 parties after the manner of boys. We stuffed …
From J. H. Balfour 22 September 1864
Summary
Does not know an Edinburgh nurseryman who can supply the cowslips and primroses CD wants; will try to get them from the Botanic Garden.
Hears from Hooker that CD is also examining Lythrum.
| Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4620 |
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- … are here also & we have a very pleasant party I dont know the Nurseryman in Edin. who can …
From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1864
Summary
John Scott has sailed.
Concurs with Lyell that CD need not reply to Kölliker.
CD’s Bignonia plants cannot be told apart without flowers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 236–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4602 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … it alone. I should not object to a third party answering it. —but in truth it is not worth …
From Asa Gray 3 October 1864
Summary
Review of Spencer was by Chauncey Wright.
Will get a note on John Scott’s paper off to Sillimans Journal [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 39 (1865): 101–10].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4625 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … election of 1864 as the Democratic Party candidate and became a symbol of opposition to …
To J. D. Hooker [27 January 1864]
Summary
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 Jan 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4398 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … be much more wholesome. — We are a small party at home now—only Etty & Horace, who, I much …
To Council of the Royal Horticultural Society 11 April 1864
Summary
The signatories warn the RHS that in offering prizes for collections of specimens of wild English plants, the Society will cause serious injury to varieties already threatened without any real promotion of scientific botany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Horticultural Society |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society 4 (1864): 91–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4459F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … I had chosen to receive the signatures of parties who collect plants, but are not known to …
From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 19 June [1861] ). Hooker refers to a party of the Church of England that held evangelical …
From J. D. Hooker 5 February 1864
Summary
John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.
Himalayan pine in Macedonia.
JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4401 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … I really think it would be wiser not to make a party cry of it yet, which it is sure to be …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
| Balfour, J. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Royal Horticultural Society | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
| Balfour, J. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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
Summary
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
Summary
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
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…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[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…
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- … 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
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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 …
