From Auguste Forel 12 November 1874
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Thanks for the present of the book [Thomas Belt, The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)].
| Author: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9718 |
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- … read to me by the head nurse of our establishment, who knows English. These observations ( …
From J. D. Hooker [3 December 1874?]
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Probably a discussiion of J. D. Hooker’s feelings after death of his wife, Frances Harriet, on 13 November 1874: the letter is badly damaged.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Dec 1874?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9719F |
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- … and 23 October 1863 and n. 13. The ‘establishment’ was the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; …
From E. P. T. Houk 3 January 1874
Summary
Sends paper she read before AAAS, but which was not accepted for Proceedings.
| Author: | Eliza Phillips Thruston Houk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 272 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9225 |
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- … into solid forms of matter. Dayton, Ohio: printed at the Daily Journal Establishment. …
From David Moore 9 July 1874
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Sends an Utricularia and a Drosophyllum.
Observations on Pinguicula grandiflora. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 390.]
| Author: | David Moir; David Moore |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 75–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9541 |
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- … things to attend to in this large public establishment. I am prevented from making close …
From G. J. Romanes 24 July 1874
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Encloses a copy of a letter from H. Spencer giving his opinion on GJR’s views on disuse and a draft of GJR’s reply to Spencer.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 52: D3–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9563 |
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- … nutritive canals &c, which for the re-establishment of equilibrium, require to be changed …
From Anton Dohrn 6 April 1874
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His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.
F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.
Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9394 |
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- … else in Europe … this interesting establishment, in founding which Dr. Dohrn was assisted …
From T. H. Huxley 6 March 1874
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Has heard from Dohrn about his financial problems. Asks CD’s advice on what to do.
THH’s article in Contemporary Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays, vol. 3 (1894)].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 193–4; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Huxley: 13.256, 13.258) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9336 |
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- … to be one of the most interesting establishments of the kind, owing to the ‘remarkable …
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| Houk, E. P. T. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Forel, Auguste | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Houk, E. P. T. | (1) |
Darwin and religion in America
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Thomas Dixon, 'America’s Difficulty with Darwin', History Today (2009), reproduced by permission. Darwin has not been forgotten. But he has, in some respects, been misremembered. That has certainly been true when it comes to the relationship…
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- … to the acceptance of his ideas within the scientific establishment. For all these reasons, he did …
- … that God does not act by constant miracles but ‘by the establishment of general laws’. The second is …
- … Darwin died, his theory had been accepted by the scientific establishment and was well on the way to …
- … forbade Congress from passing any law ‘respecting an establishment of religion.’ The First Amendment …
- … in publicly funded schools in this country, from the establishment of the first state schools by the …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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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…
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- … for Aarene. Grayson, Donald K. 1983. The establishment of human antiquity . New York: …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his …
- … to W. D. Fox, 13 November [1858] ). He first visited the establishment of James Manby Gully at …
- … vols. 6 and 7). He also stayed at Lane’s new establishment in Sudbrook Park, Surrey, at the end of …
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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- … homeopathic treatments that were scorned by the medical establishment. Himself a hay fever sufferer …
British Association meeting 1860
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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … week of the meeting at Edward Wickstead Lane’s hydropathic establishment at Sudbrook Park in …
Darwin’s Women: Short Film
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In a short film based on her research on the “Darwin and Gender” project funded by the Parasol Foundation and part of the Darwin Correspondence Project based at Cambridge University Library, Dr Philippa Hardman suggests a different, more nuanced picture of…
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- … Hardman discusses how Darwin seems to bolster an establishment perspective in print, while privately …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … at Anne’s bedside at James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern to Emma, who was …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … on 2 September for more than a month at a hydropathic establishment in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire …
George Peacock
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George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, curate of Denton for 50 years and school master. George was educated at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Richmond School in…
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- … Astronomical Society in London and a keen promoter of the establishment of an astronomical …
Editorial policy and practice
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Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
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- … or simply the day of the week. This practice has made the establishment of firm dates one of the …
Instinct and the Evolution of Mind
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…
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- … 1858] Written from Moor Park, a hydropathic medical establishment where Darwin was being …
Clémence Auguste Royer
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Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
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- … de Paris , she criticized a male-controlled scientific establishment in no uncertain terms: “Up …
The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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- … begun to write the abstract, Darwin left for a hydropathic establishment at Ilkley in Yorkshire to …
- … Henrietta would benefit from the treatment at the new establishment, but in this he was disappointed …
Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … work, and in the words of Whewell and Bishop Butler: 1. The establishment by divine power of general …
St George Jackson Mivart
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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,…
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- … ‘Another triumph of the ... Christian period has been the establishment of at least a pure theory of …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … to view real causes which have been largely operative in the establishment of the actual association …
- … it is not thought, at least at the present day, that the establishment of the Newtonian theory was a …
- … of one force, atheistical in its tendency? The supposed establishment of this view is reckoned as …
- … has not established that doctrine, nor advanced toward its establishment, but has accumulated …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[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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- … whose subjects have been or may be benifited by the establishment of the Settlement. Mr Hare …
- … to favour it – not even perhaps to allow of it’s establishment – on terms suitable to Mr Ross' …
- … object – I could not help making – would result in the establishment of even better Order than that …
- … exonerates them from contributing to bear the expense of its establishment – as they would have to …
- … on the Cocos^ – the erection of a cathedral and the establishment of a Puseyite Bishop with Chapter …
- … absent at Batavia – we were however visited by some of his establishment – and after the duties of …
- … of the Southern Keeling Island – bringing with him an Establishment of Malays – including a Seraglio …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … begun to write the abstract, Darwin left for a hydropathic establishment at Ilkley in Yorkshire to …
- … Henrietta would benefit from the treatment at the new establishment, but in this he was disappointed …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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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…
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- … to send you anything you want and would transfer the whole establishment to Down if it lay in my …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … Whewell, and other prominent members of the scientific establishment, he obtained a Treasury grant …
