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‘. . . a work of magisterial scholarship, meticulous in every respect.’ Quarterly Review of Biology The Darwin Correspondence Project is locating and researching all known letters to and from Charles Darwin, and is publishing complete texts together…
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The Darwin and Human Nature film series
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We chose four films to cover a broad chronology from the early 19th to the early 20th century; and a range of themes, including teaching Darwinism, slavery and race, degeneration in Victorian society, the boundaries between normal and abnormal in the…
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- … be questioned and discussed in the light recent historical scholarship. The programme ran …
4.46 'Puck' cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction In 1885 Darwin made yet another posthumous appearance in the New York satirical magazine Puck – again in a religious context. ‘SHEOL’ referred to the recently published Revised edition of the Bible, which modified the text of…
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- … to modernise the diction and to assimilate recent biblical scholarship. The work had been undertaken …
Awards
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In 1991 the Modern Language Association of America awarded its first ever Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters to the editors of The correspondence of Charles Darwin. The Morton N. Cohen Award was established in 1989 by a gift from…
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- … volumes already published are not only meticulous in their scholarship but enjoyable to read, to …
Caroline Kennard
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Kennard’s interest in science stemmed from her social commitments to the women's movement, her interests in nature study as a tool for educational reform, as well as her place in a tightly knit network of the Bostonian elite. Kennard was one of a…
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- … New York donated $5,000 to Radcliffe College to establish a scholarship in memory of her sister. The …
Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007)
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Founding editor, Darwin Correspondence Project Fred, as he was known to all who worked with him, first conceived of a project to publish all of Darwin’s correspondence in 1974 on his retirement as President of the American Council of Learned Societies,…
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- … that began with degrees in philosophy from Columbia and a scholarship to Oxford. Convinced that …
'Re: Design' dramatisation
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A dramatisation of the correspondence between Charles Darwin and Asa Gray was commissioned by the Darwin Project, and written by Cambridge playwright, Craig Baxter. It was developed for the stage by director Paul Bourne of the Menagerie Theatre Company,…
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- … in which they operated. Drama can be a complement to scholarship. It is a social activity, …
Darwin and religion: a definitive web resource
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I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose. Charles Darwin to N. D. Doedes, 2 April 1873 Darwin is more famous, and more notorious than ever. Nowhere is this more evident than in the…
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- … that given in his published works, or indeed in most modern scholarship. At least 200 of …
Intellectual capacities: From Caroline Kennard, 26 December 1881
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We might assume that among female admirers of Darwin’s work, many would have been disappointed by his views on the comparative intellectual capacities of the sexes expressed in The Descent of Man (1872). This was certainly true of the American feminist…
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- … on her departure for Boston: ‘Miss M. A. Hardaker brings scholarship and ability to her new post, …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … to Christ’s College, Cambridge, and to coach him for a scholarship examination; he counselled him …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … the success of his son George, who had recently won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. He …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … and published. The principles of meticulous textual scholarship are laid out in a preface to the …
