From Albin Gaertner 27 May 1879
Summary
CD’s works have opened a new world for him.
Sends a case of inheritance: a fingernail biting habit has persisted for four generations in a Viennese lawyer’s family.
| Author: | Albin Gaertner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12064 |
From Melchior Neumayr 21 January 1879
Summary
Respects Leopold Würtenberger’s work. Will initiate inquiry if CD wishes. LW’s work suffers from his limited circumstances. Will assist him if he asks.
Mentions his own forthcoming work ["Zur Kenntniss der Fauna des untersten Lias in den Nordalpen", Abh. K.-K. Geol. Reichsanst. 7 (1874–82), vol. 5].
| Author: | Melchior Neumayr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11838 |
From Melchior Neumayr 19 September 1879
Summary
Sends new publication [see 11838].
Plans major study of evolutionary palaeontology.
Comments on form series discovered by Joachim Barrande.
Has not heard from Leopold Würtenberger.
| Author: | Melchior Neumayr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12234 |
From Carl Kraus 8 January 1879
Summary
A supporter of "the presumptive connection between socialism and evolution through natural selection" sends essays of Carl Vogt and requests CD to comment on them publicly.
| Author: | Carl (Charles) Kraus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11822 |
From Ernst Haeckel 12 July 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for comments on Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Describes work on Medusae.
Describes work on Challenger Radiolaria and publication plans.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12148 |
To Grant Allen [before 21 February 1879]
Summary
Read GA’s book [The colour-sense] with "great interest". Makes criticisms and suggestions.
Cannot believe in GA’s theory of the origin of pleasure and pain.
Is glad he defends sexual selection;
CD finds A. R. Wallace’s explanations "mere empty words" and for many years he has "quite doubted [ARW’s] scientific judgment".
Considers the possible effect of environmental colour on the colour tastes of animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
| Date: | [before 21 Feb 1879] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11891 |
From Francis Darwin 29 May 1879
Summary
Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12067F |
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- … Pflanzenreiche’, from the XXXIX B d of the Vienna Denkschriften 1878 it can be bought. I …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Gaertner, Albin | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Allen, Grant | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Neumayr, Melchior | (2) |
| Allen, Grant | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Gaertner, Albin | (1) |
Vienna, Austria
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Expedition to Eastern Asia
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- … A copy of Darwin's queries on expression has been provided to an expedition to China, Japan, and …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … officer in the Finanz-Landesdirektion in Vienna; Oberfinanzrat (1892); Hofrat and …
- … Bartsch became member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, served there as librarian (1874 …
- … served as librarian of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna and later became a board member of …
- … He studied jurisprudence (Dr.) and worked as a lawyer in Vienna. Additionally, Berggruen became a …
- … graphischen Künste”. He co-founded the Scientific Club in Vienna (1876) and moved from Vienna to …
- … became director of the Imperial Telegraph Office (1857) in Vienna and high official ( …
- … major in the Mexican Army. In 1867, Equevilley went back to Vienna, where he lived as an independent …
- … 1876, Gagern served as secretary of the Scientific Club in Vienna. U. Jütte: Carlos de …
- … at the Imperial Geological Survey (1864–67) in Vienna. Afterwards, Groeger traveled to South Africa …
- … became a member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, collected algae (particularly …
- … assigned to the uniform depot in the casern Arsenal in Vienna. There, Hausner became member of …
- … of the uniform depot in Brno (ca. 1881) and moved back to Vienna after retirement. J. …
- … serving as a volunteer in the Imperial Natural Cabinet in Vienna, Heller obtained a position as …
- … natural history in the Theresianische Akademie in Vienna and published the books “Darwin und der …
- … After studying jurisprudence at the University of Vienna (1863–68) and working for the Ministry of …
- … Carnuntum (1884) and the Scientific Club (1876) in Vienna. Doblhoff-Dier J. v.: Doblhoff …
- … and cooperated with the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Keller undertook long collecting journeys …
- … as board member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna for 25 years. F. Spaeth: …
- … as the assistant of Ludwig Schmarda at the University of Vienna and finally got a position at the …
- … vice-president (1896) of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, extraordinary professor at the …
- … 1854–1925 Geographer As the son of Vienna’s chief constable, he studied geography at …
- … and vice-president of the Geographical Society in Vienna. N.N.: Sektionschef Le Monnier. In …
- … scholar Student of philosophy at the University of Vienna during the 1870s, co-founder and …
- … science. In later years, Nußbaumer became board member of Vienna's society for women’s rights …
- … 1837, he became Amanuensis of the Imperial Library in Vienna and four years later archivist in …
- … of grammar and writing at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna (1847), editor-in-chief of the …
- … the Education of Blind ( Blinden-Erziehungsinstitut ) in Vienna. A. Melhuber: Pablasek, …
- … natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Vienna, he became teacher at different Ober …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … (8) Anthropological Society, Vienna (1) …
4.45 'Puck' cartoon 2
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< Back to Introduction In Reason Against Unreason, a cartoon published shortly before Darwin’s death, the American humorous magazine Puck had celebrated him as the embodiment of ‘Reason’. Now, a month after his death, an imaginative drawing in the…
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- … and also contributed to satirical and political magazines in Vienna. physical …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … good Endlicher has pub. in 1 st vol of Annals of Vienna [Endlicher 1836]. sketch of S. sea …
- … Home Library L d Ellsmere Siege of Vienna [Schimmer 1847] …
- … 2 d . vol very good —— L. Ellsmere Siege of Vienna [Schimmer 1847].— good Sept 12 …
- … 1852] 85 Read F. Unger. Versuch einer Gesichte Vienna 1852 [Unger 1852]. 86 p.p. 364. 8 …
- … 4v. Schimmer, Karl August. 1847. The sieges of Vienna by the Turks . Translated from …
- … 1852. Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzenwelt . Vienna. [Darwin Library.] *128: 182 …
- … Die Naturgeschichte der nutzbaren Haussäugethiere . Vienna. [Darwin Library.] 128: 16 …
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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- … 20 Oct 1868 Ministry of Commerce, Vienna, Austria will …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
