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From W. S. Dallas   27 February 1874

Summary

Asks CD to allow his name to be put on a committee to establish a Scientific Societies Club for the fellows of the six societies that will have rooms in Burlington House.

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 162: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9319

Matches: 8 hits

  • … From W.  S.  Dallas   27 February 1874
  • … DAR 162: 29 William Sweetland Dallas Geological Society 27 Feb 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … references have been found to the club after 1874. No reply to this letter has been found. …
  • … to plans to form a Scientific Societies’ Club in Nature , 12 February 1874, p.   …
  • … 292, Popular Science Review 13 (1874): 77, and John …
  • … Bull , 4 April 1874, p.  217. Burlington House was occupied …
  • … Chemical Society, who were joined in 1874 by the Geological Society (Horace B. Woodward …
  • … Society, Somerset House. | W.C. 27 February 1874 My dear Sir I have no doubt that you have …

From Eugène Desmarest   27 February 1874

Summary

CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Society.

Author:  Eugène Desmarest
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 162: 172
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9320

Matches: 10 hits

  • … From Eugène Desmarest    27 February 1874
  • … See letter to Eugène Desmarest, 4 March 1874 . …
  • … DAR 162: 172 Eugène Desmarest Paris 27 Feb 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … de la Société auxquelles vous avez droit à partir de 1874. M r . Charles Darwin …
  • … sa séance de mercredi dernier (25 fevrier 1874) vous a-t-elle élu membre honoraire ; elle …
  • … at last Wednesday’s meeting (25 February 1874), it elected you an honorary member . In …
  • … s publications in Paris, to which you are entitled from 1874 onwards. M r . Charles Darwin …
  • … was published in Annales de la Société entomologique de France 5th ser.  4 (1874): XLVI.   …
  • … communication à notre prochain séance (11 Mars 1874). La Société n’ose espérer que vous …
  • … can present it at our next meeting (11 March 1874). The Society hardly dares hope that you …

From John Lubbock   27 February 1874

Summary

The land CD wants to buy probably belongs to his marriage-settlement and would thus be difficult to sell.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 261.7: 8 (EH 88205933)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9318

Matches: 6 hits

  • … From John Lubbock   27 February 1874
  • … Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury High Elms 27 Feb 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … High Elms. 27 th . Feb.  1874. Private. My dear M r . Darwin, I should have been very glad …
  • … that he rented from Lubbock (see letter to John Lubbock, 23 February 1874 ). John …
  • … Birkbeck Lubbock (who turned 16 in 1874) was Lubbock’s eldest son. Thomas William Denby …
  • … his reply and the note to Denby at the foot of CD’s letter to him of 23 February 1874. …

From T. L. Brunton   28 February 1874

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Summary

Reports negative results of his experiments on digestion of chlorophyll by Drosera and by animals. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 126.]

Sends references for chondrin.

Author:  Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 47–8, DAR 160: 340
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9322

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From T.  L.  Brunton   28 February 1874
  • … Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet London, Somerset St, 23 28 Feb 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … S t . Portman Sq | London W. Feby 28 th . 1874 Dear Sir I have delayed writing you because …
  • … Street gallery from December  1873 to August 1874; it depicted Christ and his mother in a …

From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen   28 February 1874

Summary

CD’s son is considering translating into English HHHvZ’s notes in Dutch edition of Expression; HHHvZ feels his notes to Descent would be of more interest.

Author:  Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 184: 17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9323

Matches: 5 hits

  • … From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen   28 February 1874
  • … 184: 17 Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen The Hague 28 Feb 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874. Expression : The expression of the emotions …
  • … Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, 18 February 1874 . Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen translated …
  • … The Hague 28 Feb.  1874 Dear Sir! It was a great pleasure for Mr Ykema and for me to see …

From Leonard Darwin   1 March 1874

Summary

Notes on movements of Mimosa pudica.

Author:  Leonard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 209.2: 158
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9328

Matches: 2 hits

  • … From Leonard Darwin   1 March 1874
  • … DAR 209.2: 158 Leonard Darwin unstated 1 Mar 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …

To T. W. Denby   1 March 1874

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Summary

Writes concerning the land he wishes to purchase from Sir John Lubbock.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas William Denby
Date:  1 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 97: C43
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9327

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To T.  W.  Denby   1 March 1874
  • … DAR 97: C43 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Mar 1874 Thomas William Denby …
  • … his letter to John Lubbock, 23 February 1874 (see n.  1, above); Denby therefore had all …
  • … of his letter to John Lubbock, 23 February 1874 , concerning his wish to purchase, instead …
  • … the land to CD (see the letter from John Lubbock, 27 February 1874 ). Both Lubbock’s note …
  • … the letter from John Lubbock, 27 February 1874 , were written at the bottom of the sheet …

To Edmund Hartnack   1 March 1874

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Has been waiting several months for a microscope objective and would like it without delay.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edmund Hartnack
Date:  1 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 97: C42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9326

Matches: 2 hits

  • … To Edmund Hartnack    1 March 1874
  • … DAR 97: C42 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Mar 1874 Edmund Hartnack …

To Albert Günther   [c. 2 March 1874]

Summary

Encloses a circular [9384?] to explain the predicament he is in. Asks whether AG can get anyone at the British Museum, other than Owen, to join J. E. Gray in signing.

Believes the account of the Mallotus in American Naturalist [5 (1871): 119] is trustworthy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  [c. 2 Mar 1874]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (39)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9383

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To Albert Günther   [ c. 2 March 1874] …
  • … 39) Charles Robert Darwin Down [ c. 2 Mar 1874] Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) …
  • … Albert Günther, 26 February 1874 . See …
  • … letter from Albert Günther, 26 February 1874  and n.  5. In Descent 1: 308–9, CD described …
  • … to the Royal Society of London, 2 March [1874] , and by the date of the meeting at which …
  • … meeting of the Royal Society on 5 March 1874, at which the candidates for election were …
  • … letter to the Royal Society of London, 2 March [1874] and nn.  2 and 3, and letter to H.   …
  • … B.  Tristram, 3 March [1874] and n.  1). Richard Owen and John Edward Gray worked at the …
  • … 372). See letter from Albert Günther, 26 February 1874 . See the discussion of Mallotus …
  • … the capelin) in the letter to Albert Günther, 25 February 1874 , and the letter from …

To the Royal Society of London   2 March [1874]

Summary

A certificate for admission [of Robert Swinhoe] to Royal Society with many signatures has been lost by the Post Office. Asks for another so he can get the signatures anew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Royal Society of London
Date:  2 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9329

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To the Royal Society of London    2 March [1874] …
  • … M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Mar [1874] Royal Society of London …
  • … The secretaries of the Royal Society of London in 1874 were Thomas Henry Huxley and George …
  • … and the letter from Robert Swinhoe, 9 February 1874 , and by the form of the printed …
  • … address, which CD used only until November 1874. Swinhoe was put forward for election …
  • … Royal Society twice; he was unsuccessful in 1874, but was elected in 1876 ( Record of the …
  • … letter from Robert Swinhoe, 9 February 1874 ); this involved CD’s obtaining six signatures …
  • … also letter to H.  B.  Tristram, 3 March [1874] ). The certificates had to be suspended in …
  • … s, were read out at a meeting on 5 March 1874 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …

From F. E. Abbot   3 March 1874

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Asks CD to read and comment, for publication, on his forthcoming essay in Index on the evolution of conscience and morals through action and reaction between man and the moral environment.

Author:  Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 159: 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9332

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From F.  E.  Abbot   3 March 1874
  • … DAR 159: 5 Francis Ellingwood Abbot Index , Boston, Mass. 3 Mar 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. 1874. Darwin’s theory of conscience: its …
  • … to scientific ethics. Index , 12 March 1874, 122–5. Descent : The descent of man, and …
  • … the Index containing Abbot’s lecture ( Abbot 1874 ) is in DAR 139.12.3. CD dealt with the …
  • … to Abbot (see letter to F.  E.  Abbot, 30 March 1874 ). CD was possibly listing journals ( …
  • … Herbert Spencer ) to whom to send the extra copies of Abbot’s lecture ( Abbot 1874 ). …

From J. D. Hooker   3 March 1874

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Summary

The row at the Linnean Society and other troubles.

The Agricultural Society has sent Anton De Bary £100 to investigate the potato disease – an insult to M. J. Berkeley, who had worked on it for 30 years.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 103: 189–92
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9331

Matches: 11 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   3 March 1874
  • … DAR 103: 189–92 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 3 Mar 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 March [1874] ). …
  • … CD had been elected in January 1874 (see letter from American Academy …
  • … of Arts and Sciences, 28 January 1874 ). The disputes at the Linnean Society concerned …
  • … to the bylaws (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 January 1874  and n.  2). Bentham’s …
  • … by a single vote at a meeting on 15 January 1874 had been opposed by the Scottish botanist …
  • … suggesting at a special meeting of 5 March 1874 (see n.  5, below) that the society obtain …
  • … Society had requested a meeting on 5 March 1874 to see whether the disagreements regarding …
  • … first commissioner of public works in 1874. The Royal Agricultural Society’s initiatives …
  • … widely criticised (see Nature , 1 January 1874, pp.  161–2). Miles Joseph Berkeley , when …

To H. B. Tristram   3 March [1874]

Summary

Thanks HBT for all the trouble he has taken for Robert Swinhoe and himself. Will try to get six signatures on a new certificate and deliver it to the Royal Society in time.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Baker Tristram
Date:  3 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  New York Academy of Medicine (MS 14)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9330

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To H.  B.  Tristram   3 March [1874] …
  • … Academy of Medicine (MS 14) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Mar [1874] Henry Baker Tristram …
  • … secretary, Royal Society of London , 2 March [1874]); evidently CD obtained six signatures …
  • … was announced at the meeting of 5 March 1874 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
  • … 228). Swinhoe was not elected a fellow in 1874, but was successful when proposed again in …

To Walter White   [3? March 1874]

Summary

Sending the membership certificate for Robert Swinhoe.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Walter White
Date:  [3? Mar 1874]
Classmark:  J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 147)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9335F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … To Walter White   [3? March 1874] …
  • … dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 147) Charles Robert Darwin [3? Mar 1874] Walter White …

To T. L. Brunton   4 March 1874

Summary

On digestive powers of Drosera and those of higher animals.

Comments on expression on two halves of human face.

Responds to TLB’s views of serpent- and fire-worship.

Poison of venomous snakes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:  4 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 143: 159
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9334

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To T.  L.  Brunton   4 March 1874
  • … DAR 143: 159 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Mar 1874 Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet …
  • … See letter from T.  L.  Brunton, 28 February 1874 . CD described the ability of Drosera ( …
  • … Down. Beckenham— Kent Mar.  4. 1874 Dear Sir I thank you for your long letter which has …
  • … 1873, pp.  36–7. See letter from T.  L.  Brunton, 28 February 1874  and n.  7. See letter …
  • … from T.  L.  Brunton, 28 February 1874 . Brunton had first suggested that expression could …
  • … letter from T.  L.  Brunton, 28 February  1874 , to keep in his collection of letters for …
  • … of the letter from Brunton, 28 February 1874 , indicate that he discussed this topic, but …

To Eugène Desmarest   4 March 1874

Summary

Thanks for letter announcing election to honorary member of the Entomological Society of France. Has always felt entomology admirable for throwing light on general problems in biology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Eugène Desmarest
Date:  4 Mar 1874
Classmark:  Annales de la Société entomologique de France 5th ser. 4 (1874): xlvi
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9334F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To Eugène Desmarest   4 March 1874
  • … Annales de la Société entomologique de France 5th ser.  4 (1874): xlvi Charles Robert …
  • … Darwin [Down] 4 Mar 1874 Eugène Desmarest …
  • … January (see Journal géneral de l’imprimerie et de la librarie , 31 January 1874, p.  51). …
  • … from Eugène Desmarest, 27 February 1874 . Possibly a mistranscription of or misprint for ‘ …

To J. D. Hooker   4 March [1874]

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CD guessed Carruthers was stirred up by Owen. Disgraceful treatment of Bentham.

Work on Descent and Coral reefs stops his doing anything of real interest.

Asa Gray’s letter. CD has acknowledged the honour [honorary membership in the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.].

"What a demon on earth Owen is. I do hate him."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 313–16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9333

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   4 March [1874] …
  • … DAR 95: 313–16 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Mar [1874] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … of the Linnean Society , see the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 3 March 1874  and n.  2. …
  • … general meeting to be held on 5 March 1874 to see whether the disagreements regarding the …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 3 March 1874  and n.  4). George Russell had been caught …
  • … club (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 3 March 1874  and n.  6). CD had begun preparing the …
  • … work on it for the first three months of 1874 ( Correspondence vol.  21, Appendix II; this …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 3 March 1874 ), evidently giving news of CD’s election to …
  • … Academy of Arts and Sciences, 28 January 1874 . CD’s relationship with Richard Owen had …

From J. W. Robertson to George Cupples   4 March 1874

Summary

His general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.

Author:  J. W Robertson
Addressee:  George Cupples
Date:  4 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 90: 114–16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9335

Matches: 2 hits

  • … From J.  W.  Robertson to George Cupples   4 March 1874
  • … DAR 90: 114–16 J. W Robertson Alloa 4 Mar 1874 George Cupples …

From T. H. Huxley   6 March 1874

Summary

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

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From T.  H.  Huxley   6 March 1874
  • … value me less for this reason. In true friendship | yours | Anton Dohrn 26 February 1874
  • … 13.256, 13.258) Thomas Henry Huxley Kensington Museum 6 Mar 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays , vol. 3 (1894)]. …
  • … mich darum nicht geringer. In treuer Freundschaft | Ihr | Anton Dohrn 26. Februar.  1874. …
  • … Pal. Torlonia 26. Febr.  1874. Dear Professor! My father, who has been here for 8 days, …
  • … South Kensington March 6 th 1874 My dear Darwin On my return from Aberdeen on Wednesday …
  • … well baring colds Pal. Torlonia 26. Febr.  1874. Lieber Professor! Mein Vater, der seit 8  …
  • … zoological station, arriving there in February 1874. Balfour had previously informed CD of …
  • … published in the Contemporary Review 23 (1873–4): 657–79, in March 1874. Huxley’s death …
  • … in Revue scientifique , 21 February 1874, p.  812. For a translation of the enclosures, …
  • … which took place in Warsaw on 3 June 1874 ( Kawecki 1978 , p.  310). Karl Ernst von Baer . …

To Anton Dohrn   7 March 1874

Summary

CD is grieved to hear that AD is overworked and troubled about the Zoological Station. Glad he is now writing to seek assistance from English naturalists. Sends a subscription of £100 and £10 each from George and Francis Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:  7 Mar 1874
Classmark:  Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 712)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9338

Matches: 5 hits

  • … recently changed his mind (see letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 6  March 1874  and enclosures). …
  • … To Anton Dohrn   7 March 1874
  • … München (Ana 525. Ba 712) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Mar 1874 Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn …
  • … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. March 7 th . 1874 My dear D r Dohrn I have just heard from Huxley …
  • … See letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 6 March 1874 . CD’s letter has not been found. Thomas …
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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: 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 …

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 …

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

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< 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

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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

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< 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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