To Hubert Airy 24 August 1872
Summary
CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 24 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | CUL: Royal Greenwich Observatory archives 6/273 (section 3–4: 348–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486A |
Matches: 4 hits
- … had been second in the preliminary examination at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, …
- … in 1868, and second in the final examination in 1870. On Leonard’s success in 1868, see …
- … to your father. In the preliminary examination for Woolwich he entered as 2 nd man, and he …
- … likewise passed out as Second. These examinations are well known to be very severe; and …
From F. W. Harmer 28 August 1872
Summary
Has entered a newspaper controversy with W. P. Lyon [Homo versus Darwin (1872)] who ascribes to CD the saying "natural selection is a kind of god that never slumbers nor sleeps". FWH does not believe CD made this statement.
Author: | Frederic William Harmer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8490 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1871. ] Homo versus Darwin: a judicial examination of statements recently published by Mr. …
- … was written in the form of a judicial examination and included lengthy quotations from …
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1872
Summary
William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.
Other family news.
No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.
Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 103–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8176 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … by open competition in Civil Service examinations, taking no account of horticultural or …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 May [1872]
Summary
Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.
Will send latest edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 May [1872] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8326 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of secondary causes. Being a critical examination of Mr Darwin’s work entitled ‘Origin and …
To F. W. Harmer 29 August 1872
Summary
Explains that William Penman Lyon has misquoted CD in Lyon [1871].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Harmer |
Date: | 29 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | Ipswich Museum (IPSMG: R.1924-134) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8490F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1871. ] Homo versus Darwin: a judicial examination of statements recently published by Mr. …
From Hubert Airy 21 July 1872
Summary
Corrects a factual error in his previous letter [8418].
Sends specimens illustrative of the "nodal" question.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8422 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … node in grass-stems is obsolete. On examination I see that the leaf is fully developed; …
To A. R. Wallace 27 July [1872]
Summary
On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.
Comments on other reviews and exchanges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 27 July [1872] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8429 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of secondary causes. Being a critical examination of Mr Darwin’s work entitled ‘Origin and …
From A. G. Nathorst [after August 1872]
Summary
Discusses the research for his paper on Arctic plant beds in the freshwater aquifers of Scania (Nathorst 1872).
Author: | Alfred Gabriel Nathorst |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Aug 1872] |
Classmark: | CUL, DAR Pamphlet Collection G779 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8213F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of Heer, but I think it worth of further examination). Also a single leaf of Azalea and …
From F. W. Harmer 31 August 1872
Summary
He became entrapped in the W. Lyon controversy by defending CD against Frederic Bateman of Norwich.
As a religious man, FWH wants to apologise for the attacks CD has suffered in the name of religion.
Author: | Frederic William Harmer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8499 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1871. ] Homo versus Darwin: a judicial examination of statements recently published by Mr. …
To Friedrich Hildebrand 9 February 1872
Summary
Comments on FH’s paper ["Verbreitungsmittel der Compositenfrüchte", Bot. Ztg. 30 (1872): 1–14].
Discusses function of mucus filaments on seeds of Compositae and other plants.
Comments on Eugen Askenasy’s publication [Beiträge zur Kritik der Darwin’schen Lehre (1872)].
Comments on evolutionary views of Carl Nägeli.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 9 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8206 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … write now to suggest, as worthy of yr examination, the curious adhesive filaments of mucus …
From J. B. Innes to Emma Darwin 8 March 1872
Summary
Down parish and family matters.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8238 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … his company for some time. He was in for examination at Christmas, and only got away for a …
From F. C. Donders 24 December 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Expression.
Agrees to observe expression in children born blind.
Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 234 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8695 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … you were so good as to submit for my examination. I freely avow, that I had not grasped …
From Albert Günther 14 November 1872
Summary
Many thanks for Expression. AG relates some relevant observations, the significance of which had previously escaped him.
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8625 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … circumstances, both times after medical examinations (at Tübingen & at the College of …
From Hubert Airy 24 September 1872
Summary
Thanks for letter, in which CD cited [Anton] Kerner’s alpine observations.
Describes with diagrams the curious disposition of leaves on some Acacia twigs, and points out that his theory should account for these anomalies as well as normal cases.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8532 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … two ranks accurately vertical, but close examination showed that they were in zigzag. From …
From B. A. Renshaw 15 June 1872
Summary
Reports a monkey-like child in Teneriffe.
Author: | Benjamin Adolphus Renshaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8387 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … authorities to,) the strictest examination. Although I had been in the island already six …
From Chauncey Wright 3 April 1872
Summary
Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.
Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8273 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … replied to Wright’s Darwinism: being an examination of Mr. St. George Mivart’s ‘Genesis …
From C. I. F. Major 18 October 1872
Summary
Asks permission to translate Expression into German. Will superintend an Italian translation.
Informs CD of hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].
Author: | Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 123–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8564 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Val d’Arno , which, according to an examination made by me, differs only by the absolute …
From G. J. Allman 13 April 1872
Summary
Thanks for sending translation of A. W. Malm’s paper ["On flatfishes", K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye migrates across surface of head rather than through the skull.
Considers the relationship between direction of locomotion and the presence of stalked eyes in Crustacea.
Author: | George James Allman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8269 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the Pleuronectidæ, as elucidated by an examination of the skeleton in the turbot, halibut, …
From Dr von Gloeden 1 July 1872
Summary
Comments on Descent.
Attempts to explain differing sex ratios in births from illegitimate unions, Jewish marriages, and Christian marriages.
Speculates on role of male and female elements in conception.
Thinks survival of individual conflicts in some degree with survival of species; for example, hybrids often live longer than fertile individuals.
Author: | [–] von Gloeden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8400 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to subject my hypothesis to a statistical examination before long. If it turns out to be …
From Gaston de Saporta 18 March 1872
Summary
CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.
Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8246 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … or yet the rules, that result from the examination of fossil genera, and in particular of …
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Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Airy, Hubert | (2) |
Harmer, F. W. | (2) |
Allman, G. J. | (1) |
Donders, F. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Harmer, F. W. | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Airy, Hubert | (3) |
Harmer, F. W. | (3) |
Allman, G. J. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
Summary
In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … rotundifolia tentacles, Francis had to delay further examinations . His father encouraged …
Correspondence with women
Summary
We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories. Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…
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- … of women was maintained artificially by their exclusion from examinations and learned societies. He …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … was becoming determined by qualifications and entry examinations. This made their choice of private …
Forms of flowers
Summary
Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … been so much observed of late and which in the course of our examinations for Genera Plantarum had …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … able properly to consider the results of his and others’ examinations of the Beagle specimens …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … (George and Leonard), who had recently excelled in their examinations. Darwin himself was described …