To Leonard Jenyns 24 January [1862]
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CD has sent to printer proofs of his contribution to Memoir of Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 24 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3410 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the …
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
Leith
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What to take
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- … A friend from Darwin's time at Edinburgh suggests books and equipment to take on the voyage. …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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- … , 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1894), vol. 2, p. 124. Darwin Centenary: The …
2.5 Wedgwood medallions, 2nd type
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< Back to Introduction Two identical oval medallions in green jasper in the Wedgwood Museum, portraying Darwin’s head in profile, are different from the rest. The portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal…
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- … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 24, no. 124, ‘Darwin medal of the Royal Society …
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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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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- … Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft. USA 1980. 124 mins, b/w. Monday 29 October …
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…
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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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- … 19 november 1878 Beek 124 Volkrijk Liebert M. (Marinus) …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … 1837 and Cannon 1961). In the Autobiography (p. 124) Darwin says that before Origin was …
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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- … 19 November 1878 Beek 124 Volkrijk Liebert M. …
