To Anne Barnard 31 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks AHB for her letter about girl with pointed ears.
His undying gratitude to her father [J. S. Henslow].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Henslow; Anne Barnard |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.390) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7646 |
From L. H. Morgan 8 June 1871
Summary
Will call tomorrow.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7812 |
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- … that your health is so delicate Yours Respectfully | L H. Morgan Doctor Charles Darwin …
To A. R. Wallace 24 March [1871]
Summary
On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7616 |
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- … curious & valuable. I got one today from Doctor on hair on backs of young weakly children, …
To James Crichton-Browne 18 April 1871
Summary
Comments on notes by JC-B on relation between blushing and mental disturbance. Asks for further information about blushing. "The single pencil line down this MS is my mark that I have used it once."
Thanks for "dreadful photo of the imbeciles".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 339; DAR 185: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7698 |
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- … 320. Crichton-Browne, James. [1930]. What the doctor thought . London: Ernst Benn Limited. …
To John Tyndall [27 February 1871]
Summary
Thinks JT’s discovery of a glycerine respirator is an interesting practical discovery. CD has been wondering about the hairs in our nostrils, but doubts that JT has explained their function, since there are hardly enough.
Will ask W. Ogle to observe hairs in nostrils of different races.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 7 (EH 88205945) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7518 |
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- … your idea, & he may have opportunity, as a Doctor, of observing different races of man in …
To Francis Darwin 6 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".
Has invited Michael Foster to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7806 |
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- … inclined to like me. — Good-bye my dear old Doctor Darwin | C. D. P.S. | You have omitted …
From Anne Barnard 30 March 1871
Summary
On reading Descent was reminded of having seen, on a visit to an idiot asylum with her father [J. S. Henslow], a woman with long pointed ears.
| Author: | Anne Henslow; Anne Barnard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7644 |
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- … like this It is possible that there may be doctors or attendants still at the Asylum, who …
From A. G. Butler 18 July 1871
Summary
Observations on ocelli of Brahmaea certhia.
Monstrosity born to a woman – half bear, half human.
| Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7873 |
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- … long crooked claws to its fore-feet, the doctor ‘did not think it advisable to encourage …
From J. W. Spengel 4 November 1871
Summary
Sends CD additions to his bibliographical list [missing].
Reports observations indicating that chimpanzees show compassion.
| Author: | Johann Wilhelm Spengel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8053 |
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- … association of German naturalists and doctors (Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und …
To William Ogle 25 March [1871]
Summary
Asks WO to act out the sudden discovery of a dreadful object and to observe whether his platysma contracts. CD has found in his notes that it is never contracted in cases of severe dyspnoea [Expression, p. 301].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 9 (EH 88205907) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7622 |
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- … its action in the insane under terror. Another Doctor differs somewhat about the terrified …
From James Crichton-Browne [29–31 March 1871]
Summary
On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29–31 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 324 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7649 |
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- … to be in the family way—better than the doctors. The delusion continued unshaken—until the …
From Theodor Piderit 28 July 1871
Summary
Interested in forthcoming Expression.
Sends publications.
Describes physiological theory of mental activity. Asks for CD’s opinion of his theory.
| Author: | Theodor Piderit |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7885 |
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- … enclosed book. For 14 years I worked as a doctor in Chile, to which country you devoted …
From George Cupples 22 April 1871
Summary
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 111–12c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7707 |
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- … it was begged from me immediately by our doctor in the neighbourhood, who carried off Vol …
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 2 March 1871
Summary
Dutch translation [of Descent].
Notes about reversion.
Hermaphroditism in fishes.
Polydactylism.
| Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 21–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7533 |
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- … with their milk. — In Rotterdam I know a doctor medicinae, called De Haas who has a defect …
From Alexander Agassiz [before 1 June 1871]
Summary
Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
| Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7415 |
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- … say is gaining daily in strength. The doctors advise him to absent himself for some time …
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| Barnard, Anne | (2) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (2) |
| Henslow, Anne | (2) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
Summary
< 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…
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- … to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
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< 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…
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- … photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already …
- … physiology was an influential work; John Ayrton Paris, a doctor from Cambridge, published the …
- … was written by Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a doctor at Lichfield; Anna Seward wrote a …
- … but the writer left for London about twenty years before the doctor arrived to set up his medical …
4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
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< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…
Joseph Simms
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The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
Life of Erasmus Darwin
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The Life of Erasmus Darwin (1879) was a curious departure for Darwin. It was intended as a biographical note to accompany an essay on Erasmus's scientific work by the German writer Ernst Krause. But Darwin became immersed in his grandfather's…
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Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … Nijmegen 08 June 1904 Nijmegen Doctor. In the list it says J.R. van Beemen …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … seems to me an astonishing fact’. Blackley was a doctor, practicing in Hulme, Manchester, who …
Titus Coan
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In 1874, when Darwin was preparing the second edition of Descent of Man, he received letters from all over the world in reply to his queries about human behaviour; one in particular would have stirred up unexpected memories of his own time among the native…
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- … South America. Titus Munson Coan , an American doctor, passed on a message to Darwin from …
John Beddoe
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In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…
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- … exchanged a short series of letters with a John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol who had also published …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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- … those of the author, not of the plants themselves: the ‘Doctor’ is evidently ‘ready to avow his …
Asa Gray
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Darwin’s longest running and most significant exchange of correspondence dealing with the subjects of design in nature and religious belief was with the Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Gray was one of Darwin’s leading supporters in America. He was also a…
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- … Gray was born in New York State in 1810. He qualified as a doctor, but gave up medical practice …
Charles Darwin born
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Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and his wife Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood I.
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- … the fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and his wife Susannah, daughter of …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Darwin's illness
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Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to protect him from cold. In a letter to his cousin William Fox, he wrote: "Long and continued ill health has much changed me, & I very often think with…
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- … At the age of 57, he summarized all his ailments for a new doctor. The note makes painful reading: …
1.21 window at Christ's College Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a portrayal of him in stained glass. It is in the oriel window of the Hall at his alma mater, Christ’s College Cambridge – in a bay looking onto the First Court of the…
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- … history, and he is shown wearing the academic robes of a Doctor of Laws, in reference to the …
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…
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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- … , sparking one of the testier passages in Descent;* a doctor’s promising research on the …
