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From James Caird to T. H. Farrer   2 March 1878

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Concerns [James] Torbitt’s potato plants and the question of their trial by the Experimental Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society and a request to the Government for the needed expense. THF and CD to set a date for consultation with the botanist [William] Carruthers.

Author:  James Caird
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  2 Mar 1878
Classmark:  DAR 144: 2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11394F

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  • … been found (however, see n. 5, below). In 1874, the Royal Agricultural Society offered two …
  • … and Ireland ( see Nature , 19 November 1874, p. 56). Joseph Dalton Hooker and William …
  • … disease (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 March 1874 , and Nature , …
  • … 26 November 1874, p. …
  • … 67, and 17 December 1874, pp. 128–9). Caird showed CD a memorandum by Carruthers when they …
  • … to trial by the Royal Ag r . Society in 1874. I send you an account of these experiments, …

To R. D. Fitzgerald   7 October 1878

Summary

Thanks for pt 4 of Australian orchids [1874–].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:  7 Oct 1878
Classmark:  Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11719

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  • … Thanks for pt 4 of Australian orchids [1874–]. …

From J. D. Hooker   2 March 1878

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Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Mar 1878
Classmark:  DAR 104: 103–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11391

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  • … to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon. …
  • … of Science meeting in Belfast in 1874; a brief notice of the paper was published in Report …
  • … Advancement of Science, held at Belfast (1874), Transactions of the sections, p. 134. No …

To B. J. Placzek   15 September 1878

Summary

Will be interested to read BP’s work on history [of evolution?].

A learned Jew in Poland [Napthali Lewy?] has published a volume showing that evolution is an ancient belief.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Baruch Jakob Placzek
Date:  15 Sept 1878
Classmark:  DAR 147: 244
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11694

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  • … s ‘small volume’ was Toldot Adam ( Lewy 1874 ). See also letter from Naphtali Lewy, 14 May …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Lewy, Naphtali. 1874. Toldot adam. Ha-Shahar 6: 3–60. Placzek, …

From Francis Darwin   [before 7 July 1878]

Summary

He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 7 July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 57
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11593F

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  • … s Lehrbuch der Botanik (Textbook of botany; Sachs 1868 ) was published in late 1874 ( …
  • … Sachs 1874 ). CD cited it in Movement in plants , p. 2 n. , but there is no longer a copy …
  • … with some additional material from Sachs 1874 added in notes (see Sachs 1875 , Translator’ …
  • … to movement in a mature plant did not ( Sachs 1874 , p. 852). Wilhelm Pfeffer , a former …

To Gaston de Saporta   15 August 1878

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It would be false to pretend he cares very much about his election to the Institut.

Glad to hear GdeS plans to publish a work on the more ancient fossil plants. Hopes he will report also on the more recent Tertiary forms because the close gradation of such forms is "a fact of paramount importance for the principle of evolution".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:  15 Aug 1878
Classmark:  Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11661

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  • … ancestors of the modern Equus (the genus of horses, asses, and zebras; Marsh 1874 ). …
  • … Bibliography Marsh, Othniel Charles. 1874. Fossil horses in America. American Naturalist …

To A. S. Wilson   23 February 1878

Summary

Thanks for specimen of Aegilops flour.

Comments on ASW’s papers.

Cites paper by Wilhelm Rimpau on self- and cross-fertilisation in wheat ["Die Züchtung neuer Getreide-Varietäten", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:  23 Feb 1878
Classmark:  DAR 148: 361
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11372

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  • … 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Wilson, Alexander Stephen. 1874–5. On the fertilisation …
  • … of cereals. [Read 12 February 1874 and 11 February 1875. ] Transactions of the Botanical …
  • … On the fertilisation of cereals’ ( Wilson 1874–5 ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection– …
  • … in Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 March 1874, pp. 375–6 (see also Cross and self fertilisation …

From G. A. Gaskell   20 November 1878

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Thanks CD for his encouraging letter. Replies to CD’s points. Thinks more attention should be given to the origin and growth of sexual shame.

Author:  George Arthur Gaskell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Nov 1878
Classmark:  DAR 165: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11752

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  • … Press. 1999–2002. Greg, William Rathbone. 1874. Obligations of the soil. Contemporary …
  • … n. 5. William Rathbone Greg ; W. R. Greg 1874 . Drought in the US had exacerbated racial …

To Adolf Ernst   16 January 1878

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Thanks AE for his book [Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)].

Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are more common in drier areas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Ernst
Date:  16 Jan 1878
Classmark:  State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8971)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11321

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  • … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 [June 1874] and n. 7), and began again in 1877 ( Correspondence vol. …
  • … He suspended his work on the subject in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to W. …

From W. C. Marshall   25 September [1878]

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Observations on insectivorous plants.

Author:  William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Sept [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 86: B1–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10173

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  • … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to W. C. Marshall, 8 June [1874] , and letter from W. …
  • … C. Marshall, 5 September [1874] ; see also Insectivorous plants , pp. 369–70). The plant …

From F. M. Balfour   [c. 31 January 1878?]

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His brother Cecil is reading Coral reefs, and, as his business involves the Keeling Islands and Torres Straits, he offers to make any observations CD might want.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 31 Jan 1878?]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10332

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  • … edition. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Descent : The descent of man, and selection in …
  • … 1872. Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in 1874. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands consist of two …

From M. D. Conway   18 November 1878

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Invites CD to join the Association of Liberal Thinkers and encloses information on its constitution. Huxley and Tyndall are co-operating.

Author:  Moncure Daniel Conway
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Nov 1878
Classmark:  DAR 161: 221
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11746

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  • … Bibliography Conway, Moncure Daniel. 1874. The sacred anthology: a book of ethnical …
  • … anthology of religious writings ( Conway 1874 ; see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from M. …

From C. G. Semper   6 December 1878

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Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.

Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.

Author:  Carl Gottfried Semper
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Dec 1878
Classmark:  DAR 202: 120
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11776

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  • … Bibliography Jäger, Gustav. 1874. In Sachen Darwin’s insbesondere contra Wigand. Ein …
  • … had similarly criticised Wagner ( Jäger 1874 , pp. 52, 90). Semper wrote this letter using …

From Naphtali Lewy   14 May 1878

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Believes that weakness of hybrids explains Biblical injunctions against improper unions.

Author:  Naphtali Lewy (Halevi)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 May 1878
Classmark:  DAR 201: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11509

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  • … Kluwer Academic Publishers. Lewy, Naphtali. 1874. Toldot adam. Ha-Shahar 6: 3–60. Lewy, …
  • … was published both in a periodical ( Lewy 1874 ), and in book form ( Lewy 1875 ). Lewy’s …

From C.-F. Reinwald   8 October 1878

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Forms of flowers, translated by Édouard Heckel, is published.

Cross and self-fertilisation has only sold 450–500 copies.

Origin sells regularly; he looks forward to a cheaper edition.

Author:  Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Oct 1878
Classmark:  DAR 176: 108
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11720

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  • … that of Expression had been published in 1874, with a second edition appearing in 1877 ( …
  • … Pozzi and Benoît trans. 1874 and 1877). The most recent French edition of Origin was …

From T. H. Noyes   19 November 1878

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THN, a medium with a gift to cure occult diseases, outlines a course of treatment to remedy CD’s ailments.

Author:  Thomas Herbert Noyes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Nov 1878
Classmark:  DAR 201: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11749

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  • … the home of Erasmus Alvey Darwin in January 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to J. …
  • … D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Noyes was a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford; his great- …

From Hyde Clarke   5 January 1878

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Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.

Author:  Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Jan 1878
Classmark:  DAR 161: 162
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11312

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  • … term coined by Campbell (Campbell ed. 1874, p. 3) for some tribes of the Central Provinces …
  • … and the eastern frontier (Campbell ed. 1874). Edward Tuite Dalton’s Descriptive ethnology …

To T. H. Farrer   2 March 1878

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Describes James Torbitt’s plan for producing disease-resistant potato varieties. [Letter is an earlier version of 11406.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  2 Mar 1878
Classmark:  DAR 144: 88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11389

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  • … Murray. 1876. Riley, Charles Valentine. 1874. The grape phylloxera Popular Science Monthly …
  • … Europe in the 1860s and 1870s, see Riley 1874 . Thomas Andrew Knight described a cider …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   23 June [1878]

Summary

Thanks for seeds and plants.

News of Francis and Horace Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  23 June [1878]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 131–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11563

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  • … plants; most are native to South Africa. In 1874, CD had asked Thiselton-Dyer about the …
  • … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 31 May 1874 . CD’s observations on the circumnutation of …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   14 May 1878

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Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  14 May 1878
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 122–3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11508

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  • … in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 30 (1874): tab. 6121; he had then offered to lend it to …
  • … vol. 22, letter from J. D. Hooker, 22 July 1874 ). CD did not refer to this species in …
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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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  • … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the …
  • … intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a Cambridge friend, …
  • … and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ).  Such reminiscences led Darwin to …
  • … much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). I feel very old & …
  • … old & helpless’  ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] ). Darwin mentioned his poor …
  • … on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1874 ). Séances, psychics, and …
  • … Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Later in the month, …
  • … and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). Darwin agreed that it was ‘all …
  • … perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874] ). This did not stop word getting …
  • … at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). Back over old ground New …
  • … Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January 1874 , letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 …
  • … of correction’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 21 [March 1874] ). The book came out in June with the …
  • … Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); however, he did not retract his …
  • … dog breeders (letters from George Cupples, 21 February 1874 and 12 March 1874 ); the material …
  • … Islands (Hawaii; letters from T. N. Staley, 12 February 1874 and 20 February 1874 ; letters …
  • … islanders ( letter from William Dealtry, 16 January 1874 ). One of the most significant …
  • … enemy into a jelly’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 April 1874 ). The technical nature of Huxley’s …
  • … mind where it goes’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 April 1874 ). The second edition of  …
  • … would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Darwin's son George …
  • … of your thought’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 April 1874 ). The Mivart affair …
  • … mental and physical disorders (G. H. Darwin 1873b). In July 1874, an anonymous essay appeared in the …
  • … libel’ on his son ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [27 July 1874] ).  George, however, consulted with his …
  • … [a] lying scoundrel’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). He drafted a brief statement of …

Darwin's 1874 letters go online

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The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…

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  • … of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. …
  • … ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ) The Mivart affair highlights …
  • … are some other highlights from Darwin's correspondence in 1874: I feel as old as …
  • … signifying so much.  ( Letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ) At the age of 65, Darwin …
  • … more quietly was severely tested by some of the events of 1874. He had a clear idea of the shape of …
  • … must be enough for me  ( Letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ) During the year he …
  • … the positive  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 August [1874] ) – he mourned after several …
  • … day’s work  ( Letter to D. F. Nevill, 18 September [1874] ) Darwin’s family continued …
  • … have to do—  ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 November [1874] ) Darwin’s continuing …

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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  • … In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son …
  • … appeared to have created very little stir, until, in July 1874, Mivart published an anonymous review …
  • … of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 29 July 1874 ). Darwin hastily advised against …
  • … to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). Darwin provided a draft of the …
  • … to endorse them ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 August 1874 ). He sent a second draft, which Darwin …
  • … a fair copy of his letter with his letter of 6 [August] 1874 . George and Darwin were also …
  • … George’s letter to Murray with his letter of 11 August 1874 , and was no doubt relieved to …
  • … to all he asked ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). In October, George’s letter …
  • … a Pickwickian sense’ ( letter to John Murray, 18 October 1874 ). In other words, Mivart had used …
  • … reaction was savage ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [6 December 1874] ). Hooker and Huxley between them …
  • … the attack on George ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December 1874 ). Huxley met Mivart at an evening …
  • … ( Enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 December 1874 .) A reply soon came from Mivart . …
  • … of a gentleman’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 23 December 1874 ). However, Huxley still wrote to …
  • … this.   124 Gower St W.C. Dec. 24th 1874. Private & Confidential …
  • … to John Tyndall ( letter from John Tyndall, 28 December 1874 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 …
  • … 16 January 1875, p. 66, signed, ‘The Quarterly Reviewer of 1874’. In it he reiterated his claim that …

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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  • … understand a word. Writing in French on 12 November 1874 to thank Darwin for the book, …

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…

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  • … physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874 , while he was staying in London. …
  • … stockings. (Letter from Joseph Simms, 14 September 1874 ) The foot could tell …

Essay: Evolution & theology

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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward doctrines of evolution, from the nebular hypothesis down to ‘Darwinism,’ is no less worthy of consideration, and hardly less diverse, than that of…

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  • … EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward …

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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  • … Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge …

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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  • … attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, …
  • … had also considered taking up the issue with Murray in 1874, even threatening to break off future …
  • … laid to rest, another controversy was brewing. In December 1874, Darwin had been asked to sign a …
  • … botanical research and had visited Down House in April 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letters …
  • … A scientific friendship had developed between the men in 1874, and this was enhanced by Romanes’s …
  • … white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ).   Testing Pangenesis …
  • … had learned of Lyell’s failing health from Hooker in 1874 and January 1875. On 22 February, he was …

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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  • … 9426 - Story-Maskelyne , T. M. to Darwin, [23 April 1874] Thereza Story-Maskelyne …
  • … Letter 9616 - Marshall, T. to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall sends …
  • … 9606 - Harrison, L. C. to Darwin, [22 August 1874] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, sends a …
  • … Letter 9616  - Marshall, T.  to Darwin, [September 1874] Theodosia Marshall details …
  • … Letter 9485 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [8 June 1874] Mary Treat details her experiments …

4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1

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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’ s French-born artist Faustin …
  • … this anti-Darwinian argument – a surprising one for 1874 – was genuine or tongue-in-cheek, it is …
  • … appeared on the front page of the issue for 18 February 1874, surrounded by an elaborate wood …
  • … The caricature of Darwin was not included until the May 1874 issue of the Sketch-Book (vol. 1, …
  • … at bottom left. 
 date of creation February 1874 
 computer-readable date c. …
  • … of the Huntington Library. Figaro no. 475 (18 February 1874), cover illustration. James G. …

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…

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  • … started ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). Darwin took Emma to a Sunday afternoon at …

4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire

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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum …
  • … in 1879 and 1880. When Cosmic Philosophy appeared in 1874, Fiske sent Darwin a copy, but …
  • … mind generally towards the doctrine of Evolution in 1874-1875. I like to keep this design before me …
  • … bottom right) 
 date of creation September 1874 
 computer-readable date 1874-09 …
  • … and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: 474 (12 Sept. 1874), front page. John Fiske, Outlines …
  • … and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and London: Macmillan, 1874); there were many subsequent editions. …
  • … letters to Fiske about Outlines : DCP-LETT- 9706 (3 Nov. [1874]) and DCP-LETT- 9749 (8 Dec. [1874

Photograph album of Dutch admirers

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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…

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  • … to Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 18 February 1874 ) Zouteveen’s editions of …

Animals, ethics, and the progress of science

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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…

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  • … can be chloroformed (letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 December 1874 ). In the previous sections …

4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy

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< 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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  • … < Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a …
  • … [1861] (DCP-LETT-3256]. Simms’s letter to Darwin, 14 Sept. 1874 (DCP-LETT-9637; from DAR 177:164). …

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

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  • … A GRAY 3 AUGUST 1871 201  TO A GRAY 3 JUNE [1874] 202  FROM A GRAY 16 …

Darwin as mentor

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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…

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  • … Letter 9580 - Darwin to Darwin, G. H. D., [1 August 1874] Darwin gives feedback on work …
  • … Letter 9613 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [30 August 1874] Darwin comments on a “clever” …

3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871

Summary

< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…

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  • … 1871, but dates others (still with the spotted waistcoat) to 1874.   Elliott and Fry were …
  • … Table in November 1876. The Pictorial World of 6 June 1874 published a wood engraving which …
  • … taken in summer 1869 and summer 1871, possible also in 1874. 
 computer-readable date c …
  • … 140.1.9). Wood engraving in The Pictorial World (6 June 1874), p. 228 (DAR 140.1.3). Another …

Cross and self fertilisation

Summary

The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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  • … ( To Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). But by March 1874, some doubts seemed to have arisen when …
  • … with new & related matter. ( To J. V. Carus, 19 March [1874] ). A year later, Darwin still …

3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos

Summary

< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…

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  • … as a steel engraving, which was published in Nature in 1874, and was included in Francis Darwin …
  • … to the Subscribers to Nature no.  240 June 4 th 1874’. Wood engraving in The Graphic , XI:278 …
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