From Eliza Meteyard 17 November 1865
Summary
Returns 19 of the letters CD lent her, so that he can choose one for the Autographic Mirror.
Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4937 |
To Hermann Kindt 22 November 1865
Summary
Comments on the facsimile of his handwriting made by HK, and points out two errors in the letter press.
Encloses three letters written by Erasmus Darwin, and asks HK to return them to Eliza Meteyard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Date: | 22 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 480 (Slg. Runge), 4: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4939F |
From Edward Perceval Wright 24 March 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for subscribing to the Cybele Hibernica.
Reports some observations made on the common buffaloes of India seen swimming and diving in 12ft of floodwater in order to crop the herbage beneath.
Author: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4793 |
From F. W. Farrar 6 November 1865
Summary
Grateful for CD’s approval of Chapters on language.
Is inclined to believe that the races of man were primordially distinct.
Author: | Frederic William Farrar |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4933 |
From Eliza Meteyard 25 April 1865
Summary
Sends CD the first volume of her Life of Josiah Wedgwood [2 vols. (1865–6)].
Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4819 |
To Frederic William Farrar 11 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for book on language [Chapters on language (1865)], which he hopes to read soon if his weak health permits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
Date: | 11 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4913 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Farrar, Frederic William. 1865. Chapters on …
To J. T. Moggridge 13 October [1865]
Summary
Discusses self-fertilisation in bee and spider orchids. Asks JTM to conduct experiment.
Comments on plates [see J. T. Moggridge’s contribution to Flora of Mentone and winter flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa London 1866, 1871. Part II dated 1865; Part I, 1866].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 13 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4914 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the coast from Marseilles to Genoa London 1866, 1871. Part II dated 1865; Part I, 1866]. …
To Henry Denny 28 January [1865]
Summary
Returns [Andrew] Murray’s paper;
especially values HD’s note that the same species of lice infect the different varieties of fowl, pigeon, and dog. Further queries about the relationship of the same species of pediculi to different domestic varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 28 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Alfred Denny Museum, University of Sheffield |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4756F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. …
From Thomas Gold Appleton 5 December [1865]
Summary
Sends specimen of Californian fish that inhabits mountain lakes. The lakes often dry up and the fish have developed legs to enable them to wander in search of water.
Author: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5296 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Origin : On the origin of species by …
To Friedrich Rolle 6 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks FR for copy [of first number] of Der Mensch [1866].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
Date: | 6 May [1865] |
Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4829 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Origin : On the origin of species by …
To Henry Denny 17 January [1865]
Summary
Pleased to learn that HD has resumed research on Anoplura.
Are Chiloe pediculi a distinct species?
Do lice differ on different races of humans?
Is there evidence supporting Mr Marshall’s statement about Polynesian lice?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 17 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Alfred Denny Museum, University of Sheffield |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Smith, Kenneth G. V. 1987. Darwin’s insects: …
From Henry Denny 23 January 1865
Summary
Species of lice and the animals they infest. Different kinds of dogs, fowls, and pigeons are infested by the same species of Pediculi [see Descent 1: 219].
Author: | Henry Denny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4753 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. …
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1865
Summary
Will forward Robert Caspary’s paper to CD when it is published ["Sur les hybrides obtenus par la greffe", Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80].
MTM is to become editor of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4871 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Gardeners’ Chronicle from 1841 to 1871 are in the Cory Library, Cambridge Botanic …
From William Pollard Pattison 4 December 1865
Summary
An actuary wants to know whether the probability that a woman of English–Indian parentage will have a child after age 35 is the same as for a European woman.
Author: | William Pollard Pattison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4946 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Origin : On the origin of species by …
From Fritz Müller 5 November 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for the copy of Orchids and papers on Linum and Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 93–105; 106–31].
Intends to travel to the River Itajahy and will make observations on climbing plants. Is not sure whether Dalbergia is a winding plant.
CD has changed FM’s whole perception of nature.
CD has helped him to understand distribution of coastal flora.
The vegetation on Desterro is changing.
Louis Agassiz is seeking evidence against transmutation in the distribution of the fish in the Amazon.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 76–7. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929A |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [10 July 1865]
Summary
Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.
E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.
Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.
ED reports on CD’s health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10 July 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4868 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Jackson, Benjamin Daydon. 1906. George …
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
To James Shaw 30 November 1865
Summary
Gratified that JS defends views of Origin.
Thinks beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 30 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | R. Wallace ed. 1899, p. lvi. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4943 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Orchids : On the various contrivances …
From Clémence Auguste Royer [April–June 1865]
Author: | Clémence Auguste Royer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr–June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5339 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Grand Larousse de la langue française. …
To James Philip Mansel Weale 6 May [1865]
Summary
Sends advice on naturalist matters.
W. H. Harvey’s work [with Wilhelm Sonder, Flora capensis (1859–65)],
and Robert Brown’s publication ["On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 16 (1833): 685–745].
Writes of having seen in S. America a Hymenopteran with tarsi covered with pollen-masses of Asclepias.
Interested in JPMW’s researches in South American caverns.
Mentions poor health.
Thanks for tracings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 6 May [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.308) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4828 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Harvey, William Henry. 1838. The genera …
letter | (26) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Meteyard, Eliza | (2) |
Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Denny, Henry | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Denny, Henry | (2) |
Farrar, F. W. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Denny, Henry | (3) |
Farrar, F. W. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
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Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
Summary
The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
Matches: 30 hits
- … The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, seeing the …
- … promotes the sale’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 March 1871 ). The profits for Darwin were …
- … first two printings, Darwin wrote to Murray on 20 March 1871 , ‘It is quite a grand trade to be a …
- … in memory of the book’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, 20 March 1871 ). Reaction …
- … to read it ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 19 February 1871 ). The African explorer and …
- … pleasant or not’ (letter from W. W. Reade, 21 February 1871). The geologist William Boyd Dawkins …
- … to buy them’ ( letter from W. B. Dawkins, 23 February 1871 ). Thomas Henry Huxley marvelled that …
- … tide-marks!’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 February 1871 ). Asa Gray remarked, somewhat …
- … and pointed ears” (letter from Asa Gray, 14 April 1871) Like his previous book, …
- … arms and legs ( letter from C. L. Bernays, 25 February 1871 ). Samples of hair arrived from …
- … his head ( letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, [before 25 April 1871] )). Hinrich Nitsche, ‘the lucky …
- … orang-utan foetus ( letter from Hinrich Nitsche, 18 April 1871 ). Darwin thought he might use the …
- … poor return’ ( letter to Hinrich Nitsche, 25 April [1871] ). Animal anecdotes appeared in …
- … space each morning ( letter from Arthur Nicols, 7 March 1871 ; letter from B. J. Sulivan, 11 …
- … of beauty ( letter from E. J. Pfeiffer, [before 26 April 1871] ). Roland Trimen, a long-time …
- … in the past ( letter from Roland Trimen, 17 and 18 April 1871 ). Candid disagreement …
- … were raised to a high pitch, as Innes wrote on 26 May 1871 about the darker races arising …
- … as far as this goes’ ( letter to J. B. Innes, 29 May [1871] ). On religion and morality …
- … Creator made it’ ( letter from George Morrish, 18 March 1871 ). Darwin received an anonymous …
- … Descent ( letter from a child of God, [after 24 February 1871] ). Yet some continued to …
- … religious feeling’ ( letter from F. E. Abbot, 20 August 1871 ). The Anglican clergyman and …
- … brethren’ ( letter from George Henslow, 5 December 1871 ). Ernst Haeckel boasted of his month …
- … monkey !’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 21 December 1871 ). Descent was extensively …
- … independent of all times and all circumstances’ (8 April 1871, p. 5). Darwin condemned the author of …
- … & classics’ ( letter to John Murray, 13 April [1871] ). But a similar point was made by …
- … the killing of some members of a hive a duty (Cobbe 1871, pp. 174, 188–9). Darwin was particularly …
- … by culture, not biology ( letter from John Morley, 30 March 1871 ). Reaction at home …
- … its master. ( Letter from Hensleigh Wedgwood, [3–9 March 1871] .) Some of Darwin’s …
- … to me’ ( letter to Hensleigh Wedgwood, 9 March 1871 ). A widening rift By far the …
- … 1871a), which appeared just prior to Descent in early 1871. ‘I daresay it will tell heavily …
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Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Matches: 14 hits
- … Blair, R.H. 11 July 1871 Worcester College for the …
- … Brooke, C.A.J. 30 April 1871 Sarawak, Borneo …
- … Chaumont, F.S.B.F. de 11 March 1871 Woolston, …
- … Crichton-Browne, James 3 April 1871 West Riding …
- … Donders, F.C. 28 March 1871 Utrecht, Netherlands …
- … Foster, Michael 4 June [1871] Trinity College, …
- … Gray, Asa 14 April 1871 Cambridge, Massachusetts, …
- … Gray, Asa 10 & 14 March [1871] Cambridge, …
- … Mivart, G.J. 26 Jan 1871 North Bank, London, England …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 1 Feb 1871 11 St Mary Abbot's …
- … Rejlander, O.G. [1871] Victoria Street, London, …
- … Smith, Andrew 1 Feb. 1871 11 Saint Mary Abbot's …
- … Smith, Andrew 17 April 1871 16 Alexander Square, …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 14 March 1871 33 Oakley Square, …
Frank Chance
Summary
The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
Matches: 6 hits
- … first is undated but we know it was written before 25 April 1871 because Darwin alluded to a case …
- … report by the pigeon-fancier W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 April [1871] . In his letter Chance is …
- … (Letter from Frank Chance, [before 25 April 1871] ) Responding to this meticulous self …
- … were very rare. When we were editing volume 19 (1871), Chance’s enclosure of beard and …
- … : In your work on the ""Descent of Man"" (ed. 1871) ii. 298, 299, in …
- … followed up on a similar case that CD had observed on 13 May 1871. William’s letter of 5 June 1871 …
4.17 'Figaro', unidentifiable 1871
Summary
< Back to Introduction Yet another portrayal of Darwin as a tree-dwelling ape was published in The Figaro in October 1871, and titled ‘A Darwinian hypothesis’. The image survives in a torn page in the Darwin archive, but it has so far proved…
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Darwin’s favourite photographer: From O. G. Rejlander, 30 April 1871
Summary
In the 1860s Darwin began collecting photographs of emotional expression. They seemed to capture fleeting movements of the face, and allowed him to observe with more detachment. But the technology was still new. Even under the best conditions, exposure…
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- … In the 1860s Darwin began collecting photographs of emotional expression. They seemed to capture …
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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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Henrietta Emma Darwin
Summary
Henrietta “Etty” Darwin (1843–1927) was the eldest of Charles Darwin’s daughters to reach adulthood. She married Richard Buckley Litchfield in 1871. She was a valued editor to her father as well as companion and correspondent to both of her parents.…
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Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … of self-fertilisation’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 23 July [1871] ). Darwin also informed Müller of this …
- … in his hothouse ( To Fritz Müller, 2 August [1871] ). By late 1871, Darwin was already …
- … generations’ ( To Federico Delpino, 22 November 1871 ). Delpino replied that he looked forward to …
- … and horticulture ( From Federico Delpino, 5 December 1871 ). When Darwin began writing in February …
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Darwin and the Church
Summary
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … [1850] and n. 6; and letter to J. B. Innes, 29 May [1871] ). Their true friendship does …
- … request favourably—’ (letter from J. B. Innes, 26 May 1871 ). Indeed Innes had such a high …
- … school and organ funds (letter to J. B. Innes, 13 January 1871 ). Down’s next clergyman …
- … very dull sermons’ (letter to J. B. Innes, 18 January [1871] ). Mr Powell was happy to take up …
- … qualifications’ (letter from J. B. Innes, 5 June 1871 ). Particularly in the early days of …
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Moral Nature
Summary
In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
Matches: 8 hits
- … Letter 7048 : Darwin, W. E., to Darwin, C. R., [April? 1871] In Descent of man (1: 71 …
- … Letter 7645 : Morley, John to Darwin, 30 March 1871 The politician and man of letters, …
- … of Descent of Man in the Pall Mall Gazette (Morley 1871). Darwin admired the review, and …
- … Letter 7685 : Darwin to Morley, John, 14 April [1871] "When I speak of intellectual …
- … Letter 7691 , Morley, John, to Darwin, 17 April 1871 "I don't think Mr. Mill& …
- … 7470 : Wedgwood, Hensleigh to Darwin, [before 3 March 1871] Darwin exchanged long letters …
- … Letter 7537 : Darwin, C. R. to Wenslow, Hensleigh, 3 March [1871] Using the example of …
- … 3. [ available at Darwinonline ] Cobbe, F. P. 1871. 'Darwinism in morals'. …
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Strange things sent to Darwin in the post
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Some of the stranger things Darwin received in the post can tell us a lot about how Darwin worked at home. In 1863, Darwin was very excited when the ornithologist Alfred Newton sent him a diseased, red-legged partridge foot with an enormous ball of clay…
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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…
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Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
Summary
Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Matches: 8 hits
- … wrote the following journal entries in March and July 1871 in a small lockable, leather-bound …
- … by Henrietta herself. Darwin’s letters in 1870 and 1871 ( Correspondence , vols 18 and 19) …
- … missions due to take place between 26 February and 5 March 1871 in four towns within the deanery of …
- … from Charles and Emma Darwin to F. J. Wedgwood, [March 1871?], and letter from F. J. Wedgwood to H. …
- … University Library. Henrietta Darwin | March 1871 1871 March— Sea Grove …
- … away what they have no equivalent for. July 4th 1871. How hard it is to wait—the …
- … I think I am a very happy woman. Sunday July 9 th . 1871 I want to think why I shd …
- … mission leaders in the Hampshire Advertiser , 21 January 1871, p. 7. 4 Probably John …
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William Winwood Reade
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On 19 May 1868, an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade (1838–1875) offered to help Darwin, and started a correspondence and, arguably, a collaboration, that would last until Reade's death. After a first 1861 tour of…
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- … of it" – Winwood Reade to Charles Darwin, 31 January 1871 ) and sought Darwin’s advice on …
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Letter 7624 - Bathoe, M . B. to Darwin, [25 March 1871] Mary Bathoe responds …
- … Letter 7644 - Barnard, A. to Darwin, [30 March 1871] J. S. Henslow’s daughter, …
- … 7651 - Wedgwood, F. J. to Darwin, H. E., [1 April 1871] Frances Wedgwood offers …
- … 7411 - Pfeiffer, E. J. to Darwin, [before 26 April 1871] The poet Emily Pfeiffer …
- … Letter 8055 - Hennell, S. S. to Darwin, [7 November 1871] Sarah Hennell writes to Darwin …
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Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … of sexual differences in viviparous fish, [before 1 June 1871] Fritz Müller's …
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Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … politely worded rebuke to St G. J. Mivart ( 21 April [1871] ) for the inadequacies, as Darwin saw …
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Have you read the one about....
Summary
... 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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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …