To ? [before 1 July 1868]
Summary
Sends a copy of George Bentham’s Anniversary address to the Linnean Society of London (Bentham 1868).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [before 1 July 1868] |
| Classmark: | Deutsches Museum Archive, Munich (Pamphlet HS-Nr. 04130) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6262F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Unidentified …
- … Munich (Pamphlet HS-Nr. 04130) Charles Robert Darwin [before 1 July 1868] Unidentified …
To ? [after June 1868]
Summary
Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after June 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5747 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Unidentified …
- … DAR 96: 54 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [after June 1868] Unidentified …
To Reviewer [February–April 1868?]
Summary
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Feb–Apr 1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5829 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Unidentified …
- … DAR 96: 38 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [Feb–Apr 1868? ] Unidentified …
From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Unidentified Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 159: 139 Unidentified London, Cumberland Row, 10 6 Apr 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
From B. D. Walsh [before 31 October 1868]
Summary
Beginning of extract from William Dell Hartman’s "Journal of the doings of Cic[ada?] septemdecim" [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 31 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5755 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Journal of the doings of Cic[ada? ] septemdecim " [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851. …
To Edward Alfred Smith [11–31 March 1868]
Summary
Instructions for woodcuts showing sexual differences in beetles, for Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
| Date: | [11–31 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7052 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 19 February 1868 . Illustrations of an unidentified species of Pneumora (bladder …
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Smith, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Unidentified | (4) |
| Smith, E. A. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
