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HENSLOW-J-S-01-02235.jpg http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101418379 John Stevens Henslow by T.H. Maguire B014334 U.S. National Library of Medicine, IMH John Stevens Henslow	DARWIN-E-01-01218.jpg Emma Darwin with Leonard Darwin as a child CUL DAR 225: 93 Cambridge University Library Emma Darwin	BOOLE-M-E-01-00536.jpg Mary Everest Boole CUL 300:2.c.95.12 Cambridge University Library Mary Everest Boole	DIXIE-F-C-01-01330.jpg http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw74711/Lady-Florence-Caroline-Dixie-ne-Douglas? Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (née Douglas), by Andrew Maclure, lithograph, published 1877, NPG D16189 mw74711 © National Portrait Gallery, London CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Florence Caroline Dixie
MULLER-J-F-T-01-03070.jpg Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller Cambridge University Library Fritz Müller	MARTENS-C-01-03181.jpg http://acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?itemID=404668 Conrad Martens, ca. 1840, painted by Maurice Felton ML 28 Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales Conrad Martens	JENYNS-L-01-02560.jpg Leonard Jenyns, aged 85 CUL Q479.c.8.8 Cambridge University Library Leonard Jenyns	HUMBOLDT-F-W-H-A-von-01-02443.jpg http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/34393#/summary Alexander von Humboldt Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Digitised by the University of Pittsburgh Alexander von Humboldt

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New features for Charles Darwin's 208th birthday

The website has been updated with an interactive timeline (try it!) and enhanced secondary school resources for ages 11-14. What's more, the full texts of the letters for 1872 are now online for the first time, and a selection of Darwin's correspondence with women has been published in print.

Volume 24 (1876) now available

Birth, tragic death . . . and cardigan jackets. Volume 24 of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin is now available. Read more about Darwin's life in 1876 here.

Charles Robert Darwin at various ages

Cambridge University Library

Darwin's life in letters

For all his working life, Darwin used letters as a way both of discussing ideas and gathering the ‘great quantities of facts’ that he used in developing and supporting his theories. They form a fascinating collection from many hundreds of correspondents, containing diagrams and drawings, personal observations, photographs, and even specimens.

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Frances Power Cobbe, Fom: Life of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself, Published: 1894

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Wellcome Library, London

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Darwin and vivisection

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 had performed vivisection on dogs.

Anne Elizabeth (Annie) Darwin

CUL DAR 225: 165

Cambridge University Library

The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin

Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully. Darwin wrote a memorial of his daughter just one week after her death, and Emma Darwin kept a poignant set of notes about the reaction to her death of Annie’s younger sister, Henrietta.

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Read and search the full texts of more than 8,500 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and ﬁnd information on 6,500 more. Discover complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1872.

Darwin for Schools

Discover our new and improved schools resources for 11-14 year olds.

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Darwin's letters: a timeline

Explore the letters to and from Charles Darwin over time

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Darwin's Tree of Life sketch from his “B” notebook on Transmutation of Species
CUL DAR 121, page 36
Cambridge University Library

Evolution
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Darwin and human nature - Expression photos
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Cambridge University Library

Human nature
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Some of the Darwin’s relaxing at Down House
CUL DAR 219.12: 9
Cambridge University Library

Home and family
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The Adventure and Beagle at Point Punta Arenas and Isla de Cochinos, Chiloé, by Conrad Martens
CUL Add. 7984: 19
Cambridge University Library

Voyage of HMS Beagle
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Some of Darwin's geological drawings
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Cambridge University Library

Geology
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6 editions of 'The Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin
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Wellcome Library, London
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Origin

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Volume 24 (1876) now available

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Darwin's life in letters

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Darwin and vivisection

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The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin

Darwin for Schools

Darwin's letters: a timeline

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