From Raphael Meldola 21 January [1872]
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Discusses his paper on mimicry and natural selection [Land and Water 9 (1871): 321]. Believes natural selection tends to fix mimetic characters rigidly.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8170 |
To L. C. Wedgwood 21 January [1872]
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Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8171 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |
Darwin’s species notebooks: ‘I think . . .’
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I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by the delightful number of new views, which have been coming in, thickly & steadily, on the classification & affinities & instincts of animals—bearing…
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- … I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by …
1.21 window at Christ's College Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a portrayal of him in stained glass. It is in the oriel window of the Hall at his alma mater, Christ’s College Cambridge – in a bay looking onto the First Court of the…
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- … < Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
17 Spring Gardens, London
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Darwin in London preparing for the voyage
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- … Darwin is living in London persuading Fitzroy to accept him on the voyage and preparing clothing, …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … 1853 Sept. No s I–IV of Microscopical Journal 121 [ Microscopic Journal and Structural …
Charles Thomas Whitley
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Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where they were clearly very close, exchanging letters during the summer holidays. Whitley was a mathematician, a subject that held…
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- … Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 7 july 1907 Utrecht 121 Stenfert Kroese Dr. H.P.J. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 121 Stenfert Kroese Dr. H.P.J. (Herman Petrus Johannes) …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … [4] See Notebook M, pp. 53, 58, 96, Notebook N, pp. 37, 121, ( Notebooks ) and loose page of notes …
