From Henry Napier Bruce Erskine to Frances Julia Wedgwood 1 November 1867
Summary
Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
| Author: | Henry Napier Bruce Erskine |
| Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5663 |
From B. J. Sulivan 16 August [1867]
Summary
Discusses a rare shell found by BJS on the Beagle voyage, an account of which has just been written by Davidson [possibly in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 20 (1867): 81–3].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 289 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5607 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … kind remembrances to M rs Darwin & all your party Believe me | very sincerely yours | B. …
From Peter S. Robertson 30 April 1867
Summary
Describes his attempts to cross different varieties of borecole, and the results of the crosses.
| Author: | Peter Skene Robertson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B49–51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5519 |
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- … always grow strongest & first, so that parties cultivating them for the flower Garden …
From Charles Loring Brace 29 April 1867
Summary
Letter of introduction to CD for CLB’s friend Robert S. Rowley.
| Author: | Charles Loring Brace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 272 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5518 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … that passage in D r Well’s Essay on the Party-colored Female, to which you allude in the …
From Joseph Trimble Rothrock to Asa Gray 31 March 1867
Summary
Answers to CD’s questions on expressions among the Atnah and Espyox Indians of Nass River [see Expression, pp. 22, 232, 252, 260].
Discusses the debate in America over the relationship among Indian tribes. JTR does not believe Indians are all of one race; they are as varied as Europeans.
[Forwarded to CD by Asa Gray.]
| Author: | Joseph Trimble Rothrock |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5478 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Such only I attempt Any reply to. all parties add that the Answers apply especially to the …
To Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the association of the Conservative, or Tory, party with opposition to change or reform. …
From W. D. Fox 1 February [1867]
Summary
Wants to know whether Variation is published and how the other book [CD’s proposed volume on variation in nature] is going.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5388 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … again. We have just broken up our Christmas Party—& dispersed 4 of our children—to Oxford— …
From J. P. M. Weale 7 July 1867
Summary
Has distributed CD’s questions on expression. Observations on the natives.
Floral structure encouraging cross-pollination in Polygala.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5581 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … jealous by the distemper showen to the party [(16. ) As a sign to keep silent is a gentle …
| letter | (8) |
| Brace, C. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Erskine, H. N. B. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Robertson, P. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Brace, C. L. | (1) |
| Erskine, H. N. B. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Anne Schlabach Burkhardt (1916–2012)
Summary
Anne Burkhardt was associated with the Darwin Correspondence Project from its beginning in 1974, and her contribution to its work helped ensure the regular publication of the volumes of correspondence. Anne was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and studied…
Matches: 1 hits
- … it became positively dangerous to attend Bennington cocktail parties, for even the slightest hint of …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
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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- … composed specially for the occasion. He avoided dinner parties and used his spare time to scout …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
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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- … be attended to by requiring a clean bill of health in both parties before marriage, and ultimately …
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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- … at the botanical lectures, excursions, and undergraduate parties organised by the professor of …
Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties almost every night. They show how …
Darwin and vivisection
Summary
Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘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…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[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…
Matches: 6 hits
- … that time – the frequent predatory excursions of minor parties of Indians have prevented the …
- … was settled in full independence of Mr H’s dictation – parties of them resorted to him with …
- … as many as might come to him to beg for it – as the former parties had done – [ f.184v p.76 ] …
- … by any other designation than “Excursions” of picnic ^parties^ “on pleasure bent” &c. …
- … been drawn up for us – by able and disinterested third parties – than draw these for one another – …
- … ] Arbitrator between both parties – but felt disposed to lean to the …
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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- … teaching under certain conditions, but the Bill left many parties unsatisfied and the controversy …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
Summary
Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … an earlier passage, describes it as a race from which both parties benefit. Nowadays, we are …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … . In Castelnau, Francis de, Expédition dans les parties centrales de l’Amérique du Sud … …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … Darwin spent over a month corresponding with the various parties, repeatedly revising his own letter …
