To E. S. Morse 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10938 |
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- … Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. …
- … Address to section B. [What American zoologists have done for evolution. ] Proceedings of …
- … presidential address, ‘What American zoologists have done for evolution’, to the natural …
To Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sigmund Fuchs |
| Date: | [1877–8?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 221v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10337 |
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- … will not venture to express an opinion as hardly 2 Zoologists are agreed on the subject— …
- … F: father. CD alludes to the debate among zoologists regarding vertebrates and their …
From A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth 6 February 1877
Summary
A letter from CD’s admirers in the Netherlands, sent with an album of their photographs, in celebration of his sixty-eighth birthday.
Presents an account of early efforts in the Netherlands in the direction of developmental theories, and evidence of the support and enthusiastic reception given CD’s theory.
| Author: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen; Huibert Johannes Veth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202653) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10831 |
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- … of the Natural Sciences. The majority of Zoologists and Botanists of any celebrity in the …
- … when, after his death, the German Zoologist, Professor Emil Selenka, now Professor of …
- … of your theory he awakened in the younger zoologists a lively enthusiasm, and founded a …
- … are held in esteem among the younger Zoologists and Botanists, and more and more obtain …
From P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson 25 June 1877
Summary
Requests duplicates of [H. M. S.] Challenger Pycnogonidae.
| Author: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
| Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Date: | 25 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016 |
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- … the Challenger specimens to foreign zoologists (see letter from P. L. Sclater, 2 June …
- … t know, if there is one of your country-men zoologists, who nowadays can be considered an …
From C. W. Thomson 30 June 1877
Summary
Wants CD’s advice on who would undertake describing the Crustacea from the Challenger expedition [1872–6].
| Author: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11026 |
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- … the Challenger specimens to foreign zoologists (see letter from P. L. Sclater, 2 June …
From Arnold Dodel-Port 3 July 1877
Summary
Sends CD lithograph plates as examples of a book he hopes to publish.
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11032 |
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- … question. This plate (Volvox) will very likely interest many a zoologist, for until very …
- … recently the most outstanding zoologists classified these organisms in their textbooks …
From P. L. Sclater 2 June 1877
Summary
Encloses a memorandum [missing] drawn up by W. H. Flower, Huxley, and himself, defending Charles Wyville Thomson against an attack made upon him.
| Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10981 |
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- … the Challenger expedition to foreign zoologists. The memorial was published in Annals and …
To F. J. Cohn 26 July 1877
Summary
Comments on paper by Francis Darwin ["Glandular hairs of the common teasel", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 17 (1877): 169–74, 245–72].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Date: | 26 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 266 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11073 |
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- … the Physiology of plants, but several skilled zoologists, have seen the moving filaments & …
From Otto Zacharias 23 February 1877
Summary
Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?
Photograph album will be late coming.
Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.
| Author: | Otto Zacharias |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10862 |
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- … it. I am only 30 years old, and besides not a zoologist by profession . This just for your …
To G. J. Romanes 9 August [1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].
Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.
Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus
and his own experiments on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.518) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11096 |
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- … received from ‘a great, nay the greatest zoologist’ more than twenty years earlier. She …
From E. S. Morse 18 May 1877
Summary
Lectured on Darwinism in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and to 3500 people in New York City.
Despite close friendship with Cope and Hyatt and many explanations by the latter, he cannot understand their views.
Thanks CD for appreciation of his papers.
| Author: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10966 |
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- … Address to section B. [What American zoologists have done for evolution. ] Proceedings of …
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2.27 William Couper bust, New York
Summary
< 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 …
