From H. W. Bates 29 September 1868
Summary
Informs CD of K. G. Semper’s desire to meet him and to discuss new information on volcanic phenomena, geographical distribution, etc.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6399 |
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- … The zoologist Karl Gottfried Semper travelled in the Phillipines and Palau Islands from …
From Henry Doubleday 22 April 1868
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On proportion of sexes;
coloration of sexes in Lepidoptera.
Sexual attraction of female Saturnia carpini.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A9–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6139 |
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- … Newman. Newman was also editor of the Zoologist and natural history editor of the Field ( …
To J. B. Innes 10 December [1868]
Summary
Does not think the supposed cow–deer hybrid worth investigating.
John Robinson [the curate at Down] reported to be walking with girls at night.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1868] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6497 |
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- … well-known , cautious, & experienced zoologist. — Even then many w d . disbelieve as the …
To H. T. Stainton 21 February [1868]
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Discusses factors possibly influencing the sex of caterpillars. Is gathering information on sex ratios in insects and would welcome any cases in which males seem to outnumber females.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5907 |
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- … information on silk-moths from the Italian zoologist Giovanni Canestrini (see Descent 1: …
From Karl von Scherzer 20 October 1868
Summary
Describes departure of expedition to China, Japan, and South America.
Copy of CD’s queries provided to expedition.
Invites CD to make suggestions for scientific work to be carried out.
| Author: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6425 |
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- … scientific results. We have with us a good Zoologist, who is sent to China and Japan to …
From James Shaw 17 February 1868
Summary
Mentions review [of Variation] in the Athenæum [15 Feb 1868, pp. 243–4].
Comments on adaptive utility of the right hand, an organ still undergoing specialisation.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5884 |
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- … called Species is the daily business of Zoologists” &c Then why does it know that “man …
From J. E. Gray 6 February 1868
Summary
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5846 |
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- … the life and career of Edward Blyth, zoologist. Archives of Natural History 22: 91–5. …
From Henry Doubleday 28 March 1868
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On the proportion of sexes in moths; Lepidoptera females command higher prices; quotes Staudinger’s catalogue [see Descent 1: 311–12].
Ticking of Anobium tessellatum [see Descent 1: 385].
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A11–12, DAR 86: A94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6064 |
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- … 1967. A catalogue of the Psocoptera of the world. Australian Zoologist 14 (1967–8): 1–145. …
From Oskar Schmidt 22 June 1868
Summary
Has received copy of Variation.
Sends copy of his book [Die Spongien der Küste von Algier (1868)]. Comments on it.
| Author: | Eduard Oskar (Oskar) Schmidt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6256 |
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- … but I still regret that so few zoologists (or botanists)
〈 〉 concern themselves with …
From G. D. Hinrichs 31 August 1868
Summary
Explains "Pantogen".
Summarises his papers.
Asks for help in finding a publisher.
Criticises d’Archiac’s review of Origin [in Paléontologie stratigraphique 2 (1864)].
| Author: | Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6337 |
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- … is Geologist, Physicist, Chemist, Zoologist, etc. etc. , ,and Congregational Minister …
To G. H. Lewes 7 August [1868]
Summary
Thinks GHL’s articles are quite excellent; hopes they will be republished.
Discusses adaptation. Doubts whether similar conditions without selection can produce similar organs independent of blood relationship: "resemblances due to descent and adaptation can commonly be distinguished".
Discusses luminous insects, electrical organs of fish, thorns and spines.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
| Date: | 7 Aug [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 42; Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/985) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6308 |
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- … von Baer for the statement that the zoologists of the sixteenth century said that the …
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| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Hinrichs, G. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Lewes, G. H. | (1) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Hinrichs, G. D. | (1) |
2.27 William Couper bust, New York
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…
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- … sent a cablegram on the occasion, with greetings from the zoologists gathered for a commemorative …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … Von Baer, towards whom all zoologists feel so profound a respect, expressed about the …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … wonderfully good. ' Among the names of geologists, zoologists, physicians, and …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … has occasioned much doubt and difference of opinion among zoologists’. How and why did …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … he counted among this number four geologists, four zoologists or palaeontologists, two physiologists …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … Henri Milne-Edwards and Armand de Quatrefages, both leading zoologists in Paris. Quatrefages had …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … reminded him that the work was ‘written for geologists & zoologists’, and that throughout his …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … to the great bewilderment of systematic botanists and zoologists, and increasing disagreement as to …
Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … regarding it mainly from the geological side. As some of our zoologists and palaeontologists may …
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…
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- … among botanists who complained that it was always the zoologists who had their fees remitted. Darwin …
