To Max Steffen 17 February 1882
Summary
CD thanks MS and his fellow German students for their kind birthday wishes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | Dr Gene Kritsky (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13691A |
To T. L. Brunton 14 February 1882
Summary
Agrees with TLB’s views regarding the constitution of the proposed Science Defence Association.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 353–353/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13687 |
To Theodor Eimer 6 January [1882]
Summary
Is obliged for TE’s paper on the wall lizard and another paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1882] |
| Classmark: | CUL: Library Correspondence 1953: ref. 1273 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13600F |
From J. W. Judd 8 January 1882
Summary
Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.
| Author: | John Wesley Judd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13604 |
To G. J. Romanes 28 January 1882
Summary
Agrees to write a page or two on behalf of Donald MacAlister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.614) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13647 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 March 1882
Summary
Feels better. Grateful for THH’s kind letter. Wishes there were more automata like him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 371) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13744 |
To J. C. Lyell 25 February 1882
Summary
Cannot find in his library the translation made by Walter Elliot of a Persian tract on pigeons by Sayzid Mohammed Musari.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Carmichael Lyell |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13709F |
From T. H. Huxley 25 March 1882
Summary
Concern over CD’s health. Advises him to get one of the cleverer young London doctors to communicate with Andrew Clark. Only way out of difficulties with Clark.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13740 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January 1882
Summary
CD sends cheque for £250 [see 13620].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 545 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13628 |
To William Jenner 20 March [1882]
Summary
Much regrets the state of his health will prevent his attending the [Science Defence] Association meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Jenner |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13731 |
From A. B. Mitford 17 January 1882
Summary
The Secretary to the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works thanks CD for providing the funds for a new edition of Steudel’s Nomenclator [Index Kewensis].
| Author: | Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale; Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13620 |
From A. T. Rice 4 February 1882
Summary
The editor of North American Review asks CD to write an article in support of systematic observations of mental development in infants.
| Author: | Charles Allen Thorndike (Allen) (Thorndike) Rice |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13660 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 February 1882
Summary
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13672 |
To ? 12 March 1882
Summary
Thanks for letter and promise to send pamphlet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13725 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 January 1882
Summary
Politics at Kew led to a letter of thanks to CD from the First Commissioner for his gift.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 176–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13625 |
To John Collier 16 February 1882
Summary
Thanks JC for the gift of his book [A primer of art (1882)]. Wishes JC could explain why certain lines and figures give pleasure.
Comments on Huxley’s essays on Priestley and [animal] automatism [Science and culture and other essays (1881)].
JC’s portrait [of CD] is much admired.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Collier |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6513) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13689 |
From P. H. Pye-Smith 18 March 1882
Summary
CD invited to [Science Defence Association] meeting at Royal College of Physicians.
| Author: | Philip Henry Pye-Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13729 |
To A. A. Reade 13 February 1882
Summary
Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Arthur Reade |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13685 |
To J. H. Gilbert 12 January 1882
Summary
Quantity of nitrogen in castings surprises CD.
Comments on papers: [J. B. Lawes and J. H. Gilbert, "Results of experiments on mixed herbage, pt 1", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 289–416; Gilbert, Lawes and M. T. Masters, "pt 2: The botanical results", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1882): 1181–413].
Has never made sections to see how deep worms burrow – five or six feet is probable. Wishes the problem had arisen when he made his observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13616 |
From James Sinclair 21 January 1882
Summary
JS is proposing to write a detailed history of the polled Aberdeen breed of cattle [James Macdonald and James Sinclair, History of polled Aberdeen or Angus cattle (1882)] and would be grateful for any instances of hornless breeds known to CD; in particular asks his opinion on the cause of the peculiarity.
| Author: | James Sinclair |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13634 |
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| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Judd, J. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Collier, John | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Eimer, Theodor | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Collier, John | (1) |
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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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…
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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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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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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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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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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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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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Darwin’s queries on expression
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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…
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