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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts …
- … 27 of the print edition of The correspondence of Charles Darwin , published by Cambridge …
- … to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an …
- … the sensitivity of the tips. Despite this breakthrough, when Darwin first mentioned the book to his …
- … me much’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 15 [June 1879] ). Even the prospect of a holiday in the Lake …
- … ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 26] July [1879] ). From July, Darwin had an additional …
- … ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry Johnson, 24 September 1879 ). He may have been consoled to learn …
- … pear’ ( enclosure in letter from R. W. Dixon, 20 December 1879 ). The year ended with the start of …
- … or gone some other way round?’ At least the last letter of 1879 contained a warmer note and the …
- … by a person from his solicitor’s office to complete Horace’s marriage settlement ( letter from W. M …
- … could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of Greiz College …
- … with glory’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1879 ). The botanist and schoolteacher …
- … objection to the engagement between his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin. This was all the more …
- … at the Farrers’ home, Abinger Hall, on several occasions. Horace had first approached Farrer to …
- … Farrer’s objection was based on his impression of Horace’s poor health and lack of profession, and …
- … reported, because Darwin told Farrer ‘a great deal about Horace that he did not know, especially …
- … Farrer did not relent. While the Darwins were in Coniston, Horace was instructed to wait for three …
- … the engagement between his daughter Ida and Darwin’s son Horace be kept secret and that there should …
- … and so, despite continuing to harbour misgivings about Horace’s health and career, finally agreed to …
1879 Letters now online
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In 1879, Darwin continued his research on movement in plants and researched, wrote, and published a short biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin as an introduction to a translation of an essay by Ernst Krause on Erasmus’s scientific work. Darwin’s son…
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- … In 1879, Darwin continued his research on movement in plants and researched, wrote, and published a …
- … most of August on holiday in the Lake District. In October, Darwin’s youngest son, Horace, became …
- … such a job. ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 December [1879] ) In early 1879, as a tribute …
- … until the preface was longer than the translated article. Darwin contacted cousins, sent his sons to …
- … little book, with low but respectable sales, and Darwin was relieved to hear that his friends …
- … sense & not to professional advisors . ( Letter to the Darwin children, 21 February 1879 ) …
- … irritations ( Letter t o Francis Darwin, 2 July [1879] ) Darwin regarded his …
- … the country . ( Letter to T. H. Farrer, 23 October 1879 ) During the year Darwin …
- … of the theory of natural selection. Nothing came of it in 1879, but it was to bear fruit later. He …
- … of the politicians seemed to be elsewhere. Horace has as sweet a temper & as …
- … strong health . ( Letter to T. H. Farrer, 13 October 1879 ) Darwin wrote this to his …
- … his opposition to the match between his daughter, Ida, and Horace. The two families had known each …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … theory, [25 February 1846] E. A. Darwin's calculations on the structure of bees’ …
- … , and their geometry, [19 June 1858] . W. E. Darwin's observations on Pulmonaria , …
- … of investigations carried out at Silchester with Frank and Horace [Darwin] on earthworm activity at …
- … containing bud samples, 12 May 1878 G. H. Darwin's drawings of Thalia dealbata …
- … map of the sandhills in central Sweden, 16 February 1879 C. W. Hamilton's …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old …
- … to adapt to varying conditions. The implications of Darwin’s work for the boundary between animals …
- … studies of animal instincts by George John Romanes drew upon Darwin’s early observations of infants, …
- … of evolution and creation. Many letters flowed between Darwin and his children, as he took delight …
- … Financial support for science was a recurring issue, as Darwin tried to secure a Civil List pension …
- … with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. …
- … Charles Harrison Tindal, sent a cache of letters from two of Darwin’s grandfather’s clerical friends …
- … divines to see a pig’s body opened is very amusing’, Darwin replied, ‘& that about my …
- … registry offices, and produced a twenty-page history of the Darwin family reaching back to the …
- … the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 ). Darwin’s sons George and Leonard also …
- … and conciliate a few whose ancestors had not featured in Darwin’s Life . ‘In an endeavour to …
- … think I must pay a round of visits.’ One cousin, Reginald Darwin, warmed to George: ‘he had been …
- … an ordinary mortal who could laugh’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin, 22 July …
- … he had written for the German journal Kosmos in February 1879, an issue produced in honour of …
- … Butler, Evolution old and new , which had appeared in May 1879. Krause wanted to correct Butler’s …
- … Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and letter to Ernst Krause, 9 …
- … Darwin stated that Krause’s piece had been written in 1879 (before Evolution old and new was …
- … had raised the plant from seeds sent by Asa Gray in December 1879. His observations differed, …
- … by Gray in an article and textbook (A. Gray 1877 and A. Gray 1879, pp. 20–1). ‘I think you cannot …
- … While on honeymoon with his new wife, Ida, in the Alps, Horace spotted worms at high elevations, …
- … saw a steam tram—imagine my excitement’ ( letter from Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin, [18 September …
- … vol. 27, letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 December 1879 ). For some years, Wallace’s main source of …
- … elected fellow of the Royal Society. He rejoiced to see Horace and Ida settled in their new home in …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which …
- … about their research while he was away from home. Although Darwin lacked a state of the art research …
- … the advantages of both while Francis was working abroad. Darwin was privy to the inner workings of …
- … methods and use the most advanced laboratory equipment. Darwin also benefitted from the instrument …
- … plant physiology, but it was at its core informed by Darwin’s theory of evolution, particularly by …
- … early 1860s, at a time when his health was especially bad, Darwin had taken up the study of climbing …
- … reproduced as a small book, giving it a much wider audience. Darwin was not the first naturalist to …
- … which eventually appeared in 1875. In the same year, Darwin published a much longer work, …
- … about the nature of movement, so much so, that at one point Darwin had considered combining the …
- … digestive processes. With his final great botanical work, Darwin would attempt ‘ to bring all the …
- … Francis worked in this laboratory in the summers of 1878 and 1879, he encountered some of the most …
- … off as completely as possible ’. He had also asked Horace to discuss the point with his friend …
- … made ’. Jemmy (a nickname for Darwin’s youngest son Horace) did, indeed, design an improved version …
- … couple of days ( letter from A. F. Batalin, 28 February 1879 ). Darwin was especially keen for his …
- … so much at odds ( letter to Hugo de Vries 13 February 1879 ). He was reassured by De Vries, who …
- … When Francis spent a month in Algiers in early 1879, Darwin asked him to visit the botanist Gaetano …
- … seeds ( letter to Francis Darwin, [4 February – 8 March 1879] ). He continued to write up the …
- … ’. The lull in experimental work continued into March 1879, and Darwin seemed weary when he told …
- … but a version of it was made by Darwin’s youngest son Horace, who also made an improved version of …
- … the subject of bloom from his book. In mid-June 1879, Darwin was pleased to get back to …
- … and growth ( letter from Hugo de Vries, 7 August 1879 ). Darwin replied, ‘ I thank you much for …
- … the Spring ’. Luckily, De Vries published two papers in 1879 and 1880 that Darwin was later able to …
- … ‘A horrid bore’ In late October 1879, Darwin told Gray, ‘ I have written a rather big …
- … bodies’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 October 1879 ). Thiselton-Dyer, who had assisted in …
- … earlier ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 November 1879 ). Hooker offered to write to Egypt for …
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
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- … Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig …
- … as the creator of this dramatisation, and that of the Darwin Correspondence Project to be identified …
- … correspondence or published writings of Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Jane Loring …
- … Actor 1 – Asa Gray Actor 2 – Charles Darwin Actor 3 – In the dress of a modern day …
- … Agassiz, Adam Sedgwick, A Friend of John Stuart Mill, Emma Darwin, Horace Darwin… and acts as a sort …
- … the play unfolds and acting as a go-between between Gray and Darwin, and between the audience and …
- … this, he sends out copies of his Review of the Life of Darwin. At this time in his life, Asa …
- … friends in England, copies of his ‘Review of the Life of Darwin’… pencilling the address so that it …
- … Joseph D Hooker GRAY: 3 Charles Darwin… made his home on the border of the little …
- … are kept in check by a constitutional weakness. DARWIN: A plain but comfortable brick …
- … by every blessing except that of vigorous health… DARWIN: 4 My confounded stomach …
- … pursuits and the simplicity of his character. DARWIN: 5 I am allowed to work now …
- … own house, where he was the most charming of hosts. DARWIN: 6 My life goes on …
- … being a part of [an unpublished] manuscript. Darwin settles down to write. His tone is …
- … THE CONCURRENCE OF BOTANISTS: 1855 In which Darwin initiates a long-running correspondence …
- … gossip about difficult colleagues (Agassiz). Gray realizes Darwin is not revealing all of his …
- … man, more formally attired and lighter on his feet than Darwin. He has many more demands on his time …
- … catches his attention. He opens the letter. DARWIN: 8 April 25 th 1855. My …
- … filled up the paper you sent me as well as I could. DARWIN: 10 My dear Dr Gray. I …
- … My dear Gray. I must tell you that the other day [my boy Horace] overheard me talking about …
- … DARWIN: I answered ‘Oh yes.’ HORACE: Well then, what did they say about the kinds of …
- … answered that these were all due to man’s agency. HORACE: But do not wild plants vary? …
- … who ‘formerly’ believed in such conclusions. I believe Horace is a prophetic type, as Agassiz would …
- … 1872 208 JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, 29 NOVEMBER 1879 209 A GRAY, 1882, …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, …
- … London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 September 1826] ). However …
- … of England. This list is difficult to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a …
- … The position of Granby on the list would suggest that Darwin was very busy reading in January …
- … of chemistry in 1801. Other books illustrate Darwin’s wider scientific interests, and also …
- … , which was edited by David Brewster; and Robert Grant took Darwin to meetings of the Wernerian …
- … university. There are several books of travel, and Darwin seems to have been particularly …
- … arctic zoology. Two titles are closely connected with Darwin’s family. Zoonomia was …
- … a week between March 1750 and March 1752. Both he and Dr Darwin had Lichfield connections, but the …
- … Almack’s , Granby and Brambletye House. Darwin wrote to his sister Susan on 29 January …
- … <Ni>tric Oxide? (DAR 19: 3–4) Darwin’s student booklist - the text …
- … Henry Chemistry 17 2 Vols 8 Vo Sewards memoirs of Darwin 18 1 Vol 8 Vo. Several …
- … 3 Abernethy 1822. There is a lightly annotated copy in the Darwin Library–CUL, bound with Abernethy …
- … 14 Bostock 1824–7. Volume 1 is in the Darwin Library–Down. 15 Jameson trans. 1827. There …
- … the life of Dr. Darwin . London: J. Johnson. Smith, Horace. 1826. Brambletye House: or, …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
- … a very old man, who probably will not last much longer.’ Darwin’s biggest fear was not death, but …
- … sweetest place on this earth’. From the start of the year, Darwin had his demise on his mind. He …
- … provision for the dividing of his wealth after his death. Darwin’s gloominess was compounded by the …
- … and new admirers got in touch, and, for all his fears, Darwin found several scientific topics to …
- … Evolution old and new when revising his essay on Erasmus Darwin’s scientific work, and that Darwin …
- … memory in November 1880 and in an abusive letter about Darwin in the St James’s Gazette on 8 …
- … in a review of Unconscious memory in Kosmos and sent Darwin a separate letter for …
- … Butler wished to boast publicly that his quarrel was with Darwin, agreed. Unsure how to address …
- … gone mad on such a small matter’. The following day, Darwin himself wrote to Stephen, admitting that …
- … a slap in the face as he would have cause to remember’. Darwin was enormously relieved. ‘Your note …
- … wrote such a savage review of Unconscious memory that Darwin feared he had redirected Butler’s …
- … so much for anything in my life as for its success’, Darwin told Arabella Buckley on 4 January . …
- … that Wallace would receive £200 a year, he wrote to Darwin, ‘I congratulate you on the success of …
- … on 8 January (his 58th birthday) and immediately wrote to Darwin to thank him for his ‘constant …
- … was the progress of his sons’ careers. The success of Horace’s recently established Cambridge …
- … the help of Lord Rayleigh, George Darwin, and Horace Darwin—the task of defending Darwin’s arguments …
- … Leopold Würtenberger, who had received £100 from Darwin in 1879 to continue his work on the …
- … grandson, was born in Cambridge. His parents, Ida and Horace Darwin, named him Erasmus in honour of …
Volume 28 (1880) now published
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1880 opened and closed with an irksome controversy with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of Movement in…
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- … with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. Darwin …
- … most ambitious botanical book. Many letters flowed between Darwin and his children, as he took …
- … Financial support for science was a recurring issue, as Darwin tried to secure a Civil List pension …
- … Volume 28 of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin is now available. Read more …
- … the Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific Society after meeting Darwin at Down in July 1880. Forty …
- … the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union came to Down to present Darwin with a memorial address. Among less …
- … Butler was outraged that Ernst Krause, in his book Erasmus Darwin , alluded negatively to Butler …
- … in a letter to the Athenaeum , and in his next book. Darwin, mortified, drafted letters …
- … by science, I must now lose some for science Darwin was pessimistic about the likely …
- … work on the proof-sheets of Movement in plants , Darwin began writing his final book, The …
- … decades in the making, drawing on research interests that Darwin returned to time and again. …
- … getting some provision for Wallace. In October, Darwin again took up the project, …
- … the help of Arabella Burton Buckley and Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin drew up and circulated a …
- … Gladstone, granted their request, writing personally to Darwin. The draft memorial and other details …
- … you may have pleased him. Early in the year, Darwin’s children clubbed together to buy …
- … Younger members of the family thrived. On 3 January, Darwin’s son Horace married Ida Farrer, and in …
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 …
- … used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwin’s letters; the full transcript …
- … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwin’s alterations. The spelling and …
- … book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been …
- … a few instances, primarily in the ‘Books Read’ sections, Darwin recorded that a work had been …
- … of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin recorded that an abstract of the …
- … own. Soon after beginning his first reading notebook, Darwin began to separate the scientific …
- … the second reading notebook. Readers primarily interested in Darwin’s scientific reading, therefore, …
- … editors’ identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is …
- … page number (or numbers, as the case may be) on which Darwin’s entry is to be found. The …
- … in the bibliography that other editions were available to Darwin. While it is likely that Darwin …
- … where we are not certain that the work cited is the one Darwin intended, we have prefixed the …
- … mark. Complete or partial runs of journals which Darwin recorded as having read or skimmed …
- … to the journal appear, and the location of abstracts in the Darwin archive and journals included in …
- … no means a complete representation of the books and journals Darwin read. The Darwin archive …
- … are not found listed here. The description given by Francis Darwin of his father’s method of …
- … number and the general orientation of the works upon which Darwin drew, particularly in the process …
- … Autobiography , p. 119). †The scientific books in Darwin’s library were catalogued in 1875, …
- … (Emma) (read) M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of …
- … 9 CD did not follow his own advice. In 1879, he stated that he had unbounded respect for …
- … London. *128: 180; 128: 5, 9 Moquin-Tandon, Horace Bénédict Alfred. 1841. Éléments …
- … Mr. Warrenne . London. 119: 21b Walpole, Horace. 1845. Memoirs of the reign of King …
From morphology to movement: observation and experiment
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Darwin was a thoughtful observer of the natural world from an early age. Whether on a grand scale, as exemplified by his observations on geology, or a microscopic one, as shown by his early work on the eggs and larvae of tiny bryozoans, Darwin was…
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- … Darwin was a thoughtful observer of the natural world from an early age. …
- … by his early work on the eggs and larvae of tiny bryozoans, Darwin was fascinated with nature in all …
- … idea of what constituted an ‘experiment’ evolved during Darwin’s lifetime (see What is an …
- … later materialistic versions, notably that exemplified by Darwin’s German supporter Ernst Haeckel in …
- … brought about by the conditions of existence. Darwin had read some Goethe in translation (in …
- … as well as through his correspondence. Arguably, Darwin’s first extended foray into morphology was …
- … (see Works in Letters: Living and fossil Cirripedia ). Darwin studied larval as well as adult …
- … plants: adaptation in action As an experimenter, Darwin was guided by the concept of …
- … it became a process. In his research on orchids, therefore, Darwin began by carefully working out …
- … their observations on what happened to the pollen masses. Darwin continued to investigate this …
- … of 1877 (see Works in Letters: Orchids ). Darwin was always hands-on in his approach, and …
- … adheres to a visiting insect. Another puzzle for Darwin was the existence of nectaries with …
- … the time the second edition of Orchids was published, Darwin had performed more experimental …
- … types of disc. ‘If this double relation is accidental,’ Darwin concluded, ‘it is a fortunate …
- … been recorded’ ( Orchids 2d ed. pp. 43-4). Darwin focused on a particular type of …
- … As he observed both structural modifications and movement, Darwin began to notice the ubiquitous …
- … Although morphological adaptation was the main focus in Darwin’s work on both orchids and climbing …
- … were noticed as an adjunct to structural features. When Darwin returned to research on plants, …
- … stage. Movement inside and out Darwin had begun researching the …
- … 1860 to his botanical mentor, John Stevens Henslow, Darwin gave a detailed description of the …
- … and changes of the fluid that was exuded from the tentacles, Darwin needed to ask whether the …
- … Lauder Brunton, as well as his many botanical contacts. Darwin, although working from home, had …
- … of fellow experimenters. Sanderson had been able to advise Darwin about many of his Drosera …
- … In his last major botanical work, Movement in plants , Darwin refined his experimental approach …
- … Movement in plants ). Francis spent the summers of 1878 and 1879 in Würzburg in the laboratory of …
- … and suggest instruments that could be improved on by Darwin’s youngest son, Horace, who was the …
- … In a letter to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer of May 1878, Darwin mused over one such difference. ‘ …
- … the response to gravity in the root was located in its apex. Darwin performed his own experiments on …
