From Wallis Nash 4 January 1880
Summary
Reports on the comfortable life of an immigrant in Oregon.
| Author: | Wallis Nash |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12400 |
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To Francis Darwin 28 July [1880]
Summary
Thanks FD for criticisms [of Movement in plants]. J. D. Hooker was interested in the observations of movement in Desmodium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 28 July [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12672 |
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- … My kindest remembrances to all your party— you were quite right to send Bernard home in my …
From W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin 22 July 1880
Summary
Returns Geikie’s letter; is glad he has accepted settlement of gravel through melting of snow. Is trudging around with hammer and bag with help of Ramsay’s book. Describes visits to Kenilworth and Stratford. Sara consulted a physician. Called on Reginald D. and enjoyed meeting relations and seeing picture of Erasmus. Reginald very taken with George.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12665F |
From Édouard Heckel 23 September 1880
Summary
Supervising French translation of Movement in plants. Why does not CD consider spontaneous movements of flower parts, which EMH sees also as circumnutation?
| Author: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12723 |
To W. E. Darwin [9 May 1880]
Summary
Forwards John Lubbock’s letter and hopes WED might influence the men "for the sake of science".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [9 May 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12601 |
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- … if strangers to you. We have a tremendous party here, which has gone off very pleasantly & …
From B. J. Sulivan 20 May 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for the loan of a book;
discusses his family’s health and other domestic affairs.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 311 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12612 |
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- … regards to M rs . Darwin, and all your party. | Believe me | yours very sincerely | B. …
To H. W. Jackson 9 [July 1880]
Summary
CD would be happy to receive the members of the Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific Association at Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry William Jackson |
| Date: | 9 [July 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 26(ii) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12650 |
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- … of much interest I could not say. As the party will be rather large I think the best plan …
From J. D. Hooker 24 September 1880
Summary
Can Alphonse de Candolle see CD?
Asa Gray at Kew; will meet JDH in Italy in December.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 140–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12724 |
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- … here today & we have arranged dinner parties for them on Saturday & Tuesday—so I suppose …
From W. E. Darwin 1 December [1880]
Summary
Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 84) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12880F |
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- … if L.H.P do not want them. We had a smart dinner party last night—including M rs . Fleming …
To George King 2 October 1880
Summary
Glad GK will come. But cannot talk long to anyone.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George King |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12735 |
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- … for we shall tomorrow have a very large party of my children & relations here, most of …
From W. E. Darwin 26 November [1880]
Summary
Observations on worms’ pulling leaves into their burrows.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12861 |
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- … her letter. We shall be a very small Christmas party and I fear we shall not have Horace & …
From W. E. Darwin 6 April [1880]
Summary
Is beginning Geikie’s Ice age. Describes flints found on the common. Comments on exciting election.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12564G |
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- … Bassett 1982 , pp. 15–16). The Liberal party had been victorious in the general election ( …
From J. B. Innes 19 August 1880
Summary
Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12694 |
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- … was when we were at Downe. My little home party would join me in kind regards to you all, …
To W. E. Darwin 5 [April 1880]
Summary
Discusses a book
and the "splendid news about the elections".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 5 [Apr 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12564 |
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- … March to 27 April 1880 in which the Liberal party won by one of their largest majorities. …
To James Torbitt 9 May 1880
Summary
Cannot offer any assistance in urging Government to aid JT’s experiments. Thinks best chance through [William Edward?] Forster. William Carruthers reported to Royal Agricultural Society that JT’s attempt was hopeless.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 9 May 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12602 |
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- … see political men care only about their party quarrels, and I could not ask Mr. Farrer to …
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1880
Summary
Quality of Frank’s work merits F.R.S., but quantity could defer speedy election. Will advise best strategy.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 146–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12873 |
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- … the friends would feel for the two parties much more than if they were not visibly joined …
From A. R. Carrington 15 November 1880
Summary
ARC found a frog in New Zealand; contradicts CD [in Origin, 6th ed. (1872), p. 350.]
| Author: | Alexander Randall Carrington |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12822 |
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- … in New Zealand, and attached to a Surveying party under Government. — We were engaged in …
From B. J. Sulivan 2 January [1880]
Summary
Repeats extracts of a letter received from Bishop Stirling’s daughter containing anecdotes and observations of the Fuegian natives.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11818 |
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- … new years to you & M rs . Darwin and all your party. I think you will be amused with a few …
From G. H. Darwin 28 May 1880
Summary
Writes of a Mrs Noel, who is annoyed with CD’s neglect of Erasmus Darwin’s brother, W[illiam] A[lvey] D[arwin I], [in Erasmus Darwin].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12617 |
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- … from banquets, the ‘starvation parties’, the rationing of meat in the Confederacy, and his …
From Adolf Ernst 29 February 1880
Summary
Plants in Venezuelan plains.
Observations on Turnera: heterostyly, leaf-base glands’ secretion eaten by ants.
Observations on role of leaf secretions in fertilisation of Marcgravia and Passiflora.
| Author: | Adolf Ernst |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12504 |
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- … Leocadio Guzmán was a founder of the Liberal party of Venezuela; his son Antonio Guzmán …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
| Carrington, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Jackson, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
| Carrington, A. R. | (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)
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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…
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- … 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
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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
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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
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‘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
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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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- … 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…
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- … . 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 …
