Reichardt, H. W. (1835–85)
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White, Walter (1811–93)
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- … at fourteen and worked with his father, a cabinet-maker. In America, 1834–9. Employed as …
Daubenton, L.-J.-M. (1716–1800)
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- … 1804). Appointed keeper and demonstrator of the cabinet of natural history in Paris, 1744. …
Bright, John (1811–89)
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- … 1873–4, 1880–2; retired from the cabinet, 1882. ODNB . Bibliography ODNB : Oxford …
Pastrana, Julia (1834–60)
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- … 216–44. Bibliography Bondeson, Jan. 1997. A cabinet of medical curiosities. Ithaca, N.Y. : …
Robinson, G. F. S. (1827–1909)
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- … A member of William Ewart Gladstone’s cabinet, 1868–73. Viceroy of India, 1880–4. ODNB …
Goschen, G. J. (1831–1907)
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- … of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1865. Cabinet member at the poor-law board, 1868–71, at the …
Trattinnick, Leopold (1764–1849)
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- … his herbarium to the new royal natural history cabinet in Vienna in 1807, he was appointed …
From Alfred Newton 9 April 1869
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Regrets Frank [Darwin] did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva voce part.
Pleased CD is willing to help the University’s Museum of Zoology; he encloses the printed appeal.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6694 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 October 1871
Summary
JDH has no intention of resigning. Thinks W. E. Gladstone would rather see Ayrton turned out than himself. Gladstone knows JDH has friends who would be troublesome. Only moral and political cowardice of Cabinet keeps Ayrton in office.
Lyell is much altered since autumn.
Has CD read Charles Martins’ paper on the glacial origin of the tourbières of the Jura [Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 42 (1871): 286–308]?
John Scott has an admirable series on horticulture in Bengal ["Notes on horticulture in Bengal", J. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India 2 (1871) pt 1: 241–96; 3 (1872) pt 1: 1–82].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 87–92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8024 |
To J. E. Gray 28 March [1854]
Summary
Asks for parts of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror [1844–75].
Asks about the arrangement of cirripedes at the Museum; hopes JEG will keep CD’s names.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1564 |
From Edward Blyth 21 September 1863
Summary
Sends some original observations on British ferns [not found].
Has secured a small pension and hopes to acquire a house near Kew.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 206 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4300 |
From Henry Doubleday 26 January 1857
Summary
Sends specimens of Tortrix, which illustrate the extraordinary variation of markings in two or three species. In every family of Lepidoptera there seem to be species extremely prone to vary and in some localities they vary more than in others.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2044 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 26–7 January 1863
Summary
Has done extensive plant hybridisation: strawberry, raspberry, Rhododendron.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26–7 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3948 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 August 1875
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JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10120 |
From Friedrich Rolle 26 January 1863
Summary
Pleased that his book, Ch. Darwin’s Lehre [1863], has CD’s approval.
FR formerly a geologist, now a dealer in natural history objects.
Most active supporter of CD’s theory is Gustav Jäger in Vienna.
FR regards fossil Hipparion as a link between horse and pachyderms.
| Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3947 |
Sackville-West, M. C. (1824–1900)
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- … discussion in her own right, influencing cabinet members and discussing government policy …
Broderip, W. J. (1789–1859)
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- … 1826. Possessed an unrivalled conchological cabinet. FRS 1828. ODNB Sarjeant 1980–96 . …
To W. D. Fox [26 February 1829]
Summary
Entomological visits with F. W. Hope and J. F. Stephens in London. News of insects taken and birds shot.
Has been advised by his tutor to defer the "Little Go". Sends news of Cambridge friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-57 |
From F. W. Hope 15 January 1834
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s letter about alpine entomology of Tierra del Fuego; discusses geographical distribution; urges CD to make a chart of vegetable and geological distribution of insects. Advises him on species to collect and assures him of all assistance in describing his captures on his return.
Tells of founding of Entomological Society, and enrolls CD.
News of J. F. Stephens’ lawsuit and continuation of his Illustrations of British entomology [1827–46]. Praises general state of zoological science in England.
| Author: | Frederick William Hope |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-235 |
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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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- … Tachinariia and volunteered at the Imperial Natural Cabinet. Between 1865 and 1872, he served as …
- … After serving as a volunteer in the Imperial Natural Cabinet in Vienna, Heller obtained a position …
- … of Vienna and finally got a position at the Imperial Natural Cabinet (1873). Subsequently, …
- … University of Vienna, he volunteered in the Imperial Natural Cabinet, specialized in Lepidoptera …
Gaston de Saporta
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The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, marshalled similarities in physiology, behaviour and emotional…
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- … générale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du roy... Paris: L'Imprimerie …
3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1
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< Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old and enfeebled Darwin on the verandah of Down House, there are at least two other images of him created by the same firm at this period of his life - perhaps even on…
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … was reproduced as a lantern slide and as a ‘carte’ or ‘cabinet’ picture, reduction in scale entailed …
3.20 Elliott and Fry, c.1880-1, verandah
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< Back to Introduction In photographs of Darwin taken c.1880-1, the expression of energetic thought conveyed by photographs of earlier years gives way to the pathos of evident physical frailty. While Collier’s oil portrait of this time emphasises…
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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- … versions and formats as ‘cartes de visite’ or ‘cabinet’ pictures, sometimes with a facsimile of his …
3.21 Herbert Rose Barraud, photos
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< Back to Introduction The successful portrait photographer Herbert Rose Barraud, who had studios in London and Liverpool, photographed Darwin in the summer of 1881, in a group of four or so close-up head-and-shoulders portraits. This was probably at…
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- … by Barraud himself. They appeared as ‘cartes’ and ‘cabinet’ portraits, sometimes with a facsimile of …
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
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< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
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- … were offering photographs in a variety of formats – ‘cabinet’ pictures or ‘cartes de visite’, even …
3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'
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< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…
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- … and reworked over a long period. It appeared as a ‘cabinet’ card of ‘The late Charles Darwin’, …
John Maurice Herbert
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John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
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- … return home, he will be more valuable as a specimen for the Cabinet of the Antiquarian, than your …
Beauty and the seed
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One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
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- … created that man might ages afterwards admire them in his cabinet?’ After mentioning sexual …
Plant or animal? (Or: Don’t try this at home!)
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Darwin is famous for showing that humans are just another animal, but, in his later years in particular, his real passion was something even more ambitious: to show that there are no hard-and-fast boundaries between animals and plants. In 1875 Darwin…
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- … was also more fun. Darwin raided the kitchen, the medicine cabinet, the garden, and the lunch table …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … which Legros had seen in the British Museum and in the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris: it was …
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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- … and physiological botany . (Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet cyclopædia .) London. [Darwin …
- … of natural philosophy . (Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet cyclopædia .) London. [Darwin Library.] …
- … 1837–9. A treatise on geology . 2 vols. (Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia.) London. [Darwin Library.] …
- … and classification of animals. (Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia.) London. [Darwin Library.] 119 …
ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
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- … In 1826, Darlington became a founder of the Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science, which built …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … … inclosed in a large spledid frame, for our Musium and cabinet of Natural History, where I hope it …
