To ? 17 December [1866]
Summary
Gives information about obtaining the most recent (4th) edition of Origin.
Is glad to hear that his correspondent is interested in the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (22 June 2017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5310F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Unidentified …
- … Auctions (dealers) (22 June 2017) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Dec [1866] Unidentified …
To a local landowner [1866?]
Summary
Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1866?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4963 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Unidentified …
- … DAR 96: 27 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [1866? ] Unidentified …
To ? 10 May [1866?]
Summary
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 May [1866?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5083 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Unidentified …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 May [1866? ] Unidentified …
To ? 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.
Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].
Working on causes of variability.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.318) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5170 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Unidentified …
- … Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.318) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Aug [1866] Unidentified …
From Lionel Smith Beale 9 February 1866
Summary
Sends the numbers [of periodicals?] CD wished to see, and a list of other journals in which his papers have appeared.
| Author: | Lionel Smith Beale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5000 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … reference is apparently to numbers of an unidentified periodical containing articles by …
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Beale, L. S. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Unidentified | (4) |
| Beale, L. S. | (1) |
Darwin as mentor
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin …
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Linnean Society (1) Unidentified (204) …
3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Leonard Darwin’s letter to his father, enclosing unidentified photographs, 25 April 1878. …
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … University Library originator of image unidentified date of creation …
2.5 Wedgwood medallions, 2nd type
Summary
< Back to Introduction Two identical oval medallions in green jasper in the Wedgwood Museum, portraying Darwin’s head in profile, are different from the rest. The portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal…
Matches: 1 hits
- … originator of image Allan Wyon, interpreted by an unidentified ceramicist date …
Proteus
Summary
Proteus is a bit of an Unidentified Film Object. A work that mixes documentary with animation, its subject is a scientist who walked a tight line between arts and sciences. Is the film a documentary or an artistic vision? As our guest speaker Nick Hopwood…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Proteus is a bit of an Unidentified Film Object. A work that mixes documentary with animation, its …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
4.29 Richard Grant White, 'Fall of man'
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the same time as The Hornet pictured Darwin as ‘A Venerable Orang-Outang’, a novella by the American journalist and critic Richard Grant White offered a more scurrilous take on The Descent of Man. The Fall of Man: Or,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … signed ‘Stephens’, but it is unclear whether this so-far unidentified artist was the draughtsman or …
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
Summary
Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
Matches: 1 hits
- … same ‘caterpillar genus’. Müller also found eggs of an unidentified species of the tribe Heliconiini …
Black Venus
Summary
Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham) on the film Vénus Noire (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2010) Sara Baartman has long been characterised as ‘Black Venus’, or ‘Vénus Noire’. The epithet encapsulates how her exploitation and objectification whilst alive…
Matches: 1 hits
- … after birth. Whilst in England she was also married to an unidentified groom. In the film, these …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … that had been discovered in a thornbush in Cumberland. An unidentified correspondent offered facts …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … Library–Down. Cook, James. Voyages (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). …
Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
Matches: 1 hits
- … in Emma Darwin’s hand. [81] This sentence is in an unidentified child’s hand. …
