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2.19 Montford, bust at the Royal Society
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s marble bust of Darwin at the Royal Society, dating from 1898, derives from his bronze statue at Shrewsbury. It was normal for sculptors to re-use their models in this way for the creation of busts and…
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- … to Introduction Horace Montford’s marble bust of Darwin at the Royal Society, dating from …
- … normal for sculptors to re-use their models in this way for the creation of busts and statuettes, in …
- … had married Katherine Euphemia (Effie) Wedgwood, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood; Hensleigh was …
- … 1 st Baron Bridges, who presented the bust to the Royal Society, of which he was a Fellow, in …
- … apparently exhibited at an ‘At-Home’ gathering of the Society on 23 January 1902, but then returned …
- … 1905, and also one of Lord Farrer’s bust now at the Royal Society. physical …
- … Society, from the Society’s records. Royal Society New Letter Book for 1902, letters from Robert …
- … and Sons, 1906), vol. V, p. 275. Royal Society Minutes of Council , CMO/41, meeting of 18 …
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
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In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
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- … well documented. As early as 1860, soon after encountering the sundew Drosera rotundifolia on an …
- … son, Francis, carried on his father’s legacy in a variety of ways, including through his own …
- … he is credited with illustrating the tiny underwater traps of Aldrovanda and Utricularia . …
- … and Darwin senior submitted his son’s discovery to the Royal Society of London. Only fellows of the …
- … of the common teasel ( Dipsacus sylvestris )’ at the Royal Society on 1 March 1877 (F. Darwin …
- … An abstract of Francis’ paper was published in the Royal Society’s Proceedings , but to his …
- … by the beginning of August. Still displeased by the Royal Society’s decision not to publish the full …
- … Darwin’s request, Cohn agreed to allow an excerpt of his letter to be published in Nature , …
- … August 1877, p. 339). Although, as Darwin pointed out in a letter to G.J. Romanes, Cohn was hesitant …
- … ). (Abstract.) [Read 1 March 1877.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 26: 4–8. …
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
- … these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks …
- … Darwin’s copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of …
- … Library 1 Cambridge. Library 2 Royal Coll of Surgeons [DAR *119: 1] …
- … on the Horse in N. America— [Harlan 1835] Owen has it. & Royal Soc Lord Brougham Dissert. …
- … Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
- … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
- … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … Natural History Society ]— read Edinburgh. Royal [ Transactions of the Royal Society of …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … [DAR 128: 27] 1860 Friends in Council [Helps] 1849] 2 d Series. & parts of 1 …
- … 13; 119: 16b [Helps, Arthur]. 1849. Friends in council . London. 128: 27 …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
- … of the year, Darwin was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The …
- … end of April; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and J. D. …
- … The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family …
- … having all the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
- … seconded Darwin’s nomination for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had …
- … for On the origin of species ( Origin ), which the Council of the Royal Society had failed to …
- … his letters to Darwin, and Darwin responded warmly: ‘Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium …
- … may well rest content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] …
- … always a most kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] …
- … fever), and was wondering whether to send it to the Linnean Society, or to the Royal Society of …
- … suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, that he …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
- … of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin …
- … of Lythrum salicaria ’) and sent it to the Linnean Society of London, thus completing the work he …
- … and he received more letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the …
- … and December were also marked by the award to Darwin of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal; he had …
- … As Darwin explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the …
- … the gold medal was considered the greatest accolade that the Royal Society could bestow. The …
- … observations indoors ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin …
- … sent to Daniel Oliver, keeper of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and professor of …
- … gradation by which leaves produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). …
- … plants’), which Darwin submitted to the Linnean Society in January 1865. Climbers and twiners …
- … Origin . He communicated Crüger’s paper to the Linnean Society, in addition to a paper on Bonatea …
- … had been initiated by Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1862 with a …
- … with the staff he supervised as assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. He noted, for …
- … new findings in science, was settled in 1864 when the Privy Council decided to drop the charges of …
- … 9, Appendix VI). Seven months after happily noting that the Council had ruled in favour of the two …
- … vol. 12 Appendix IV). With the help of supporters on the Council, including Hugh Falconer and George …
- … Medal to Darwin was announced. Sabine’s power on the Council of the Royal Society and his opposition …
- … as to whether Sabine’s address misrepresented the Council by saying that Origin had not been …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. …
- … with his scientific work, single-mindedly committed to the completion of his cirripede monographs. …
- … in Malvern to Emma, who was confined to Down awaiting the birth of their ninth child. After Anne’s …
- … his scientific achievements when, in 1853, he was awarded a Royal Medal by the Royal Society of …
- … and plates and settling publication details with the Ray Society for Living Cirripedia (1851) …
- … Fossil Cirripedia (1854), again published by the Ray Society and the Palaeontographical Society. …
- … developed into a valued friendship. London scientific society As letters in this …
- … London, as revealed in a series of letters pertaining to the Royal Society. In April 1854, when his …
- … accepting membership in the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society (having declined to join in 1847 …
- … Milne-Edwards, for the Copley Medal and suggesting for the Royal Medal lesser-known naturalists whom …
- … in his health was indicated by his comment in a letter to Hooker on 29 [May 1854] : ‘Very far …
- … large-scale geological changes. As he told Hooker in a letter of 5 June [1855] , ‘it shocks my …
- … he had written to Hooker ( Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 [June 1850] ), …
- … interested in animal breeding. As Darwin told Fox in a letter of 27 March [1855] , the object of …
- … ‘all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 7 May [1855] ). But …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
- … a massive scientific correspondence. Six months later the volume of his correspondence dropped …
- … that he was ‘unwell & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a …
- … Although Darwin did continue his botanical pursuits over the summer, and persevered with his work on …
- … from ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] …
- … ‘I declare I never in my life read anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] …
- … the first part of his presidential address at the Linnean Society of London to British and foreign …
- … included his election as a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin …
- … in November when Darwin heard that his nomination for the Royal Society’s Copley Medal had been …
- … failure to win the award was Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society ( see letter from Edward …
- … in species of Linum ’) was read before the Linnean Society. In the paper, Darwin presented …
- … the end of the previous year. John Scott, a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had …
- … communicated Scott’s Primula work to the Linnean Society in a paper that was read in February …
- … to consult George Busk, former Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, whom Goodsir …
1.18 John Collier, oil in Linnean
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< Back to Introduction By 1881 it was clear to Darwin’s intimates that he was increasingly frail, and that, as he approached death, he had finally escaped from religious controversy to become a heroic figure, loved and venerated for his achievements…
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- … a heroic figure, loved and venerated for his achievements by the public at large. It was therefore …
- … as a thinker. George Romanes and other members of Darwin’s circle therefore gained his …
- … Secretary; and Darwin’s son Francis was a member of the Council. Darwin himself wrote to Romanes on …
- … newly published Primer on Art , and received a pleasant letter of thanks. Darwin assured Collier …
- … he would be proud to see himself ‘suspended at the Linnean Society’. In the event, he did not live …
- … Room there. It ‘was about to be hung in the rooms of the society’ in April 1882, when his death was …
- … moving truth to nature. By the time it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in May 1882, Darwin was …
- … world.’ physical location Linnean Society accession or collection number …
- … . Linnean Society archive, manuscript letter LL/8, Darwin to Romanes, 27 May 1881. Correspondence …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions Plants …
- … species, and botanical research had often been a source of personal satisfaction, providing relief …
- … detestably bad English a very little less bad.’ The process was compounded by the fact that …
- … with fresh enthusiasm to the new assistant director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, William …
- … Edwin Ray Lankester, who was up for election to the Linnean Society. The ‘malcontents’ of the …
- … On 8 January , he told Hooker: ‘I will write a savage letter & that will do me some good, if I …
- … Mivart was a distinguished zoologist, a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a secretary of …
- … respecting codes of conduct and communication in scientific society. Huxley chose journalism, …
- … Hooker was hampered by his position as president of the Royal Society from spurning Mivart in public …
- … to the Editor … Poor Murray shuddered again & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January …
- … when the chance arose. On 28 January , he sent a note on Royal Society business to Edward Burnett …
- … opinion on vivisection, the government decided to appoint a Royal Commission to advise on future …
- … when performing a painful experiment ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , p. 183). …
- … offered to pay the costs for printing an additional 250 ( letter to John Murray, 3 May 1875 ). …
- … & bless the day That ever you were born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 …
- … that the originally red half has become wholly white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 …
- … pp. 188–90). He drew attention to this discussion in a letter to George Rolleston, remarking on 2 …
- … jeopardised his friend’s chances by suggesting to the council that his membership fee be waived, …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but …
- … and gathering information from an ever-expanding network of correspondents. Down House was altered …
- … stay; and, with his father’s advice, Darwin began a series of judicious financial investments to …
- … which completed his trilogy on the geological results of the Beagle voyage, and extensively …
- … first edition. He continued as an officer of the Geological Society of London, acting as one of four …
- … Government grant was exhausted ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter to A. Y. Spearman, 9 October 1843, …
- … are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [11 January 1844] ). …
- … the essay of 1844 to read (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 [February 1847]) …
- … himself: as he told his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of [24 April 1845] , he felt he …
- … Natural selection Perhaps the most interesting letter relating to Darwin’s species theory, …
- … Darwin not only used his personal notes and records but, by letter, marshalled the resources of …
- … of the laws of creation, Geographical Distribution’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 February 1845] ) …
George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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- … After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the …
- … Joseph Hooker, who reportedly described Busk as ‘the most fertile brain of any man I know in regard …
- … and physiological matters. Busk was also on the Council of the Royal Society, and was one …
- … clever person, excellent wife & mother, really scientific, & the kindest & most …
- … for their ostracism by Charles and Lady Lyell ( letter from J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865] ). …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the meaning …
- … written between 1861 and 1868 and presented to the Linnean Society of London. In the book, Darwin …
- … of respect and affection’. He hinted as much in his letter of 4 June : ‘you will see I have done …
- … have shared Hooker’s suspicion of ambitious gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August …
- … method of recording leaf motion for extended periods. In a letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 11 October …
- … … tap one of the young leaves with a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). …
- … nitrogenous matter. His work on teasel was sent to the Royal Society of London by Darwin, who …
- … perfectly heard & understood’. An abstract appeared in the society’s Proceedings , but the …
- … , or to the vibratory flagella of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). …
- … in July 1877 (F. Darwin 1877b), and Darwin sent Cohn’s letter vindicating his son’s research to …
- … Rade, a civil servant active in the Westphalian Provincial Society for Science and Art. In a letter …
- … from the director and secretary of the Dutch Zoological Society , whose council had organised the …
- … College, and avoided dinner at the Cambridge Philosophical Society. ‘I am not able to spend an …
- … Henry Huxley delivered a rousing speech at the Philosophical Society dinner), and busy himself …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Design | Personal Belief | Beauty | The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of …
- … he tended to avoid the subject as much as possible. A number of correspondents tried to draw Darwin …
- … provided a position completely incompatible with all forms of natural theology popular at the time. …
- … of departure reviews of Origin . The second is a single letter from naturalist A. R. Wallace to …
- … everything is the result of “brute force”. Letter 2855 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 3 …
- … nature, as he is in a “muddle” on this issue. Letter 3256 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, …
- … shares a witty thought experiment about an angel. Letter 3342 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, …
- … He asks Gray some questions about design. Letter 6167 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 8 …
- … of my precipice”. Darwin and Wallace Letter 5140 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, …
- … letters, written after the Duke of Argyll’s address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864), Darwin …
- … Lyell, criticising the Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] on beauty …
- … Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society on 6 February. In it Shaw defends …
- … include ‘management clauses’ formulated by the Privy Council Committee on Education. Religious and …
