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2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum

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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…

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  • … Committee of Delegates appointed Nov. 28, 1896, to consider places in the Museum for the Bust of Sir …

Mauro Galetti: profile of an ecologist

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Mauro Galetti solved Darwin’s puzzle of the ‘bright seeds’. This is what he told us about becoming an ecologist.

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  • … is a kind of hobby and job, and I enjoy traveling to new places to compare how plants disperse their …
  • … has been a major tool in speeding up the restoration of wild places. In one of these places I …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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  • … would readily suppose could be stowed away in dry and secure places’. So wrote Captain FitzRoy in …
  • … Books are to be taken from, and returned to their places by the Person appointed for that purpose. …

1.15 Albert Goodwin, watercolour

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< Back to Introduction In 1880 the watercolourist Albert Goodwin was apparently invited to Down to produce that rare thing – a portrait of Darwin with members of his family. As Henrietta Litchfield, Darwin’s daughter, explained when she reproduced it…

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  • … of Down House evidently became one of Darwin’s favourite places, as his decline in health precluded …
  • … from drawings by Alfred Parsons also depicted these places, especially Darwin’s favourite haunts: …

Divergence

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In a later account of how he had come to the evolutionary ideas published in Origin, Darwin wrote: 'Of all the minor points, the last which I appreciated was the importance & cause of the principle of Divergence' (to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10]…

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  • … (only few will succeed) to seize on as many and as diverse places in the economy of nature, as …

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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  • … older type of nether garment), is sure to have hard-fitting places; or, even when no particular …
  • … are found in beds of the drift at Amiens (also in other places, both in France and England), …
  • … For, as species do not now vary at all times and places and in all directions, nor produce crude, …
  • …  reviewer, ‘a proper view of the nature of causation places the vital doctrine of the being and the …

1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph

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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…

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  • … East Anglia, 2002), pp. 309–331. Louise Miskell, Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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  • … a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the …

Vivisection: BAAS committee report

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Report British Assoc. Edinburgh 1871 p. 144 I No experiment which can be performed under the influence of an anasthetic ought to be done without it. II No painful experiment is justifiable for the mere purpose of illustrating a law or fact already…

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  • … person with insufficient instruments & assistants, or in places not suitable to the purpose, …

Working in the Darwin archive

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One of our editors Paul White talks about the Darwin archive at Cambridge University Library and piecing together a letter from multiple fragments in different places in the archive.  

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  • … together a letter from multiple fragments in different places in the archive.   …

Cordillera Beagle expedition

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To mark the completion of the Darwin Project and the 214th anniversary of Darwin's birth, use our new interactive to explore 3D images of the rocks Darwin collected on a Beagle voyage inland expedition in the foothills of the Andes in 1834.

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  • … in August and September 1834. Find out about the people and places he encountered on his journey in …

Darwin's Fantastical Voyage

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Learn about Darwin's adventures on his epic journey.

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  • … These activities explore Darwin’s life changing voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Using letters home, …

George James Stebbing

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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…

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  • … that would be used to establish the longitude of various places to produce a connected chain of …

Ilhéu de Santa Maria (Quail Island)

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Quail Island heights

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  • … Sulivan sends heights of places on Quail Island to assist with Darwin's geological theorising. …

Home learning: 7-11 years

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Do try this at home! Support your children’s learning by downloading our free and fun activities for those aged between 7-11 and 11-14 years, using Darwin’s letters.  

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  • … back rocks, soils, plants and animal specimens from all the places that he visited on the voyage. …

4.43 'Illustrated London News' article

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< Back to Introduction In September 1887 the Illustrated London News reviewed G.T. Bettany’s popular biography of Darwin, and the reviewer took this opportunity to offer his own thoughts on the ‘domestic tranquillity’ and ‘unassuming modesty’ of…

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  • … on the page evoke Darwin’s private life at Down, ‘the places and objects amidst which he quietly …

Full notes on editorial policy

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The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…

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  • … deletions, insertions, and other alterations in the places at which they occur. In the print edition …
  • … the alterations in the text are recorded in brackets at the places where they occur. For example: …

About the letters

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Correspondence was a vital tool for Darwin in collecting the data to substantiate his theories, and for discussing those theories with colleagues; the letters are very much a part of Darwin's scientific archive.  He lived at just the right time for an…

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  • … the people, all the organisms and publications, and all the places. If we only provided scans, or …

New material added to the American edition of Origin

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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…

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  • … species; and individuals of other species would take their places. Secondly, I suspect that when any …
  • … were received too late to be incorporated in their proper places.   Page 46, 1 …

Search tips

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In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…

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  • … eg),  index terms such as people, institutions, and places, and some more conceptual terms.   These …
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