To George Warington 7 October [1867]
Summary
Admires his paper ["On the credibility of Darwinism", J. Trans. Victoria Inst. 2 (1867): 39–62, and discussion 63–125].
Ridicules William H. Ince and Admiral FitzRoy on their naive ideas about Noah’s ark.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Warington |
| Date: | 7 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS1001/95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5642 |
From Clair James Grece 29 December 1867
Summary
Asks CD to write a letter on his behalf to John Murray. CJG plans to translate Eduard Maetzner’s Englische Grammatik [1860–5] if publication can be arranged.
| Author: | Clair James Grece |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5742 |
From Alexander F. Boardman 26 January 1867
Summary
Encloses letter written a week ago. Letter and enclosure speculate on origins of human races in relation to geological and political changes, according to a theory of progressive development.
Was sorry CD wrote so little on man in Origin.
| Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 226, 226/1, 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5378 |
| letter | (3) |
| Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Grece, C. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Warington, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
| Grece, C. J. | (1) |
| Warington, George | (1) |
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … invalidation of the old biblical notions of the creation and Noah’s flood, in the light of modern …
Interview with Pietro Corsi
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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …
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- … right wing high Tory church, for instance on the subject of Noah’s ark. It is surprising the extent …
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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- … Darwin Fox, who kept a wide assortment of animals at his ‘Noah’s ark’ in Delamere and who had long …
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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- … “The history of the Deluge” – is any mention made of Noah’s having laid in any stock of fresh water. …
