To James Paget 29 April [1869]
Summary
Has made a wonderful recovery [from riding accident].
Asks for information on blushing and screaming [for Expression].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Autogr. b. 4, fol. 119a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6716 |
From J. V. Carus 29 April 1869
Summary
A new edition [4th German] of Origin to be published by Schweizerbart. JVC asks CD to send any changes or additions.
Variation has sold two-thirds of the first printing [1868].
Hopes he may do translation of CD’s new work [Descent].
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6717 |
To John Murray 29 April [1869]
Summary
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. A. R. Wallace’s article inimitably good – and a triumph that it appears where it will make B[ishop] of O[xford] and Owen gnash their teeth.
Delighted at the sale of F. Müller’s book.
Thinks he has brought Origin up to "present standard of science" [5th ed. (June 1869)].
Slow progress on Descent.
His horse rolled over him, but he is recovering rapidly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 201–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6718 |
From R. F. Cooke 29 April 1869
Summary
Confirms a request by CD that Murray’s supply electrotypes of Orchids at most reasonable possible price.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 369 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6719 |
From Spiridion Brusina 29 April 1869
Summary
SB is founding a natural history society to study the flora and fauna of the southern Slavic countries.
Plans to print portraits of the four most distinguished naturalists and asks for a photograph of CD.
| Author: | Spiridion Brusina |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 354 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6720 |
From M. A. Ruck to Francis Darwin [29 April – 27 May 1869]
Summary
Sends message to CD about development of horns in sheep.
| Author: | Mary Anne Matthews; Mary Anne Ruck |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Apr – 27 May 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 190, DAR 84.2: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6760 |
To Max Schmidt [29 April 1869]
Summary
Asks MS whether he will examine adult mandrills and describe the sexual differences in colouring.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maximilian (Max) Schmidt |
| Date: | [29 Apr 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6762 |
From Lawrence Ruck [after 29 April 1869?]
Summary
On the horns of castrated lambs.
| Author: | Lawrence Ruck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 29 Apr 1869?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 134–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7409 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
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| Paget, James | (1) |
| Schmidt, Max | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Brusina, Spiridion | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
4.29 Richard Grant White, 'Fall of man'
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< Back to Introduction At about the same time as The Hornet pictured Darwin as ‘A Venerable Orang-Outang’, a novella by the American journalist and critic Richard Grant White offered a more scurrilous take on The Descent of Man. The Fall of Man: Or,…
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- … < Back to Introduction At about the same time as The Hornet pictured Darwin as ‘A …
Moral Nature
Summary
In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … inaugurated a new era in the science’ (A. Gray 1862b, p. 429). Oliver joined in the chorus, telling …
