To W. E. Darwin 6 [June 1861]
Summary
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 6 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3178 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 June [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3192 |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 9 July 1861]
Summary
CD thanks correspondents for information relating to the fertilisation of Pelargonium and of wheat. Suggests further observations and experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 9 July 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 280–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3204A |
To Asa Gray 16 September [1861]
Summary
Is interested in cases of dimorphism like Primula. Discusses Primula and Linum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3255 |
From Gideon Lincecum 4 March 1861
Summary
Reports on the habits of the cutting ant of Texas, particularly its habit of planting shade trees to protect its mound from sun.
Author: | Gideon Lincecum |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (MS S.P. 604A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3082 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 July – 10 August 1861]
Summary
Puzzled by function of orchids’ rostellum.
Orchids’ pollen concentrated in two pollinia; hence one flower can fertilise only two others. This may explain precision of orchid pollination mechanisms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 July – 10 Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3221 |
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- … Appendix II). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 July [1861] , n. 8. Winkler trans. 1860. …
To William Erasmus Darwin [24 January 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [24 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3051 |
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- … previous summer (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to W. E. Darwin, [30 July 1860] ). …
To George Maw 19 July [1861]
Summary
Has read GM’s review and thanks him for its fair and liberal spirit. Discusses briefly several specific difficulties raised by it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 19 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3214 |
To W. E. Darwin [25 May 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [25 May 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3157 |
To Neil Arnott 29 August [1861]
Summary
Found NA’s A survey of human progress [1861] on his return home after two months’ absence. Is glad to see NA kept his intention of publishing on this subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Neil Arnott |
Date: | 29 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | Remember When Antiquities (dealers) (Catalogue 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3237F |
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- … see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Neil Arnott, 16 February [1860? ] ]and n. 3). …
From Tiberius Cornelis Winkler 7 July 1861
Summary
Sends his article ["Quelques nouvelles espèces de poissons fossiles", Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem 2d ser. 14 (1861)]
and Dutch translation of the Origin.
Author: | Tiberius Cornelius Winkler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1861 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6084) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3202 |
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- … of Origin into Dutch (Winkler trans. 1860) is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Winkler’s letter …
To Jeffries Wyman 3 February [1861]
Summary
Can there be any truth in account of rattlesnakes fascinating their prey? Structure of rattle complex.
Fears it will be impossible to show gradation among other snakes.
Has JW seen Robert McDonnell’s article on electrical organ in skate ["On an organ in the skate", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 57–60]?
Thanks for observations on Vespidae. Particularly values such cases of variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 3 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3056 |
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- … to Wyman in his letter of 3 December [1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8). The remarks were …
To Alexander Goodman More 8 March [1861]
Summary
Obliged for offer to observe orchids.
Not surprised that AGM demurs to acceptance of his views. Discusses effects of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 8 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3084 |
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- … enlisted More’s assistance in the summer of 1860 to help him procure specimens of orchids. …
From B. O’Neile Wilson 22 December 1861
Author: | Benjamin O’Neile Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3348 |
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- … edition of Origin was published in January 1860. This is the only letter from Wilson that …
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1861]
Summary
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3329 |
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- … of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566. Collected papers : The collected …
To Philip Lutley Sclater 4 March [1861]
Summary
Asks for a rabbit specimen;
inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.239) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3080 |
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- … June ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 11 (1860– 2): 130–1, 233). Crisp 1861 . …
To John Murray 24 February [1861]
Summary
If JM disapproves of inserting CD’s geological works on back of title-page [of Origin, 3d ed.], he should strike them out. CD cares little. Reminds him to insert "additions and corrections" in advertisements. Sends list for presentation copies.
Asks whether his Journal of researches has sold at all satisfactorily.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 24 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3069 |
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- … new printing of CD’s Journal of researches in 1860. It was advertised on the title page as …
To J. D. Hooker 27 July [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 July [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3220 |
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- … propagation. See Correspondence vol. 8, letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 December 1860 . …
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3337 |
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- … of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566. Lecoq, Henri. 1854–8. Études sur la …
To H. W. Bates 4 April [1861]
Summary
CD urges HWB to write on his travels;
asks for facts on domestic variations;
is pleased by HWB’s acceptance of the theory of sexual selection.
He still believes in migration from north to south during glacial age.
Hopes Bates will publish a paper on mimicry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3109 |
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- … of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566. Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The …
Darwin, C. R. | (104) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Clarke, W. B. (b) | (1) |
Colgate, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
Gray, Asa | (9) |
Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
Bates, H. W. | (4) |
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of …
- … in railway stations ( letter to Charles Lyell, 14 January [1860] ). By May, with the work …
- … be nice easy reading.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] ). Origin : reactions and …
- … his main argument ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] ). Darwin’s magnanimous …
- … utterly smashed’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). (A chronological list of all the …
- … the only track that leads to physical truth’ (Sedgwick 1860) that most wounded Darwin. Having spent …
- … investigation.—’ ( letter to J. S. Henslow, 8 May [1860] ). Above all else Darwin prided …
- … ample lot of facts.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 18 February [1860] ). To those who objected that his …
- … as real.’ ( letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 9 February [1860] ). This helps to explain why Darwin was …
- … progression ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860] ). To this and Lyell’s many other …
- … than a success ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 February [1860] ). I think geologists …
- … to reasoning.’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 18 May 1860 ). Darwin began to tabulate (and …
- … and five botanists ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] ). Others, like François Jules …
- … at it, makes me sick!’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 3 April [1860] ). By the end of 1860, Darwin …
- … those of embryology ( letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860] ). Only his theory, he believed, …
- … of species ( see letter from T. H. Huxley, 6 August 1860 ). But Baer in fact eventually opposed …
- … other animals’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] )— he and others were well aware that …
- … after 4 hours battle’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 July 1860). Other correspondents informed Darwin …
- … thing for subject.—’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). Further details of the meeting, …
- … theological reform tract Essays and reviews in January 1860 as to that of Origin itself. …
- … ( letter from J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1860 ). What worried Darwin most about such …
- … support altogether (letters to Charles Lyell, 1 June [1860] and 11 August [1860] ). As …
- … view the subject’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1860] ); later he became ‘fairly sick’ …
- … of his geological argument, he wrote to Lyell on 6 June [1860] : 'I am beginning to despair …
- … Darwin was not, however, entirely preoccupied in 1860 with his critics and the reception of Origin …
- … two days after the second edition was issued, on 9 January 1860, he turned to preparing the first …
- … compressed arguments of Origin . Many of the letters of 1860 pertain to his collection of further …
- … in the fertilisation of plants. In the spring and summer of 1860, he began to investigate the …
- … changed structure.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 April [1860] ). Tracing the complicated …
British Association meeting 1860
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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … the Advancement of Science meeting in Oxford, June–July 1860 Several letters in the year 1860 …
- … Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the …
- … broken down” (letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [June 1860] ). Undoubtedly the most famous …
- … are less well known. The following account of the 1860 meeting of the British Association in …
- … by their precise attribution. Athenæum , 7 July 1860, p. 19: Introduction to the reports …
- … lively during the week. Athenæum , 7 July 1860, pp. 25–6: Thursday session of Section D. …
- … monkey was the gift of speech. Athenæum , 14 July 1860, pp. 64–5: Saturday session, …
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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- … should not be in conflict. A TREMENDOUS FURORE: 1859-1860 In which Darwin distributes …
- … in the long run prevail. CERTAIN BENEFICIAL LINES: 1860 Asa Gray presents his argument …
- … 1859 70 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 5 JANUARY 1860 71L AGASSIZ, JULY 1860 …
- … 100 A GRAY, ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR JULY, AUGUST AND OCTOBER, 1860 101 GRAY’S ARTICLE IN THE …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … response to Darwin (see letters from Asa Gray, [10 January 1860], [17 January 1860], and 23 January …
- … of stereotyping (see letter from Asa Gray, 23 January [1860] and n. 2). The firm agreed, however, to …
- … of species (two letters to Baden Powell, 18 January 1860), Darwin subsequently changed his mind. On …
- … this off to Gray enclosed in his letter of [8 or 9 February 1860]. He had earlier sent Gray some …
- … given by Hewett Cottrell Watson in his letter of [3? January 1860]) that Darwin wanted inserted at …
- … American edition in the letter to Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860]. Darwin suggested to Gray that …
- … additional corrections” (letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [1860]). By 1 May 1860, D. Appleton …
- … printings of Origin (see letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] and enclosure) and were preparing to …
- … American edition of Origin was available in July 1860 (see [Gray] 1860b, p. 116). It is …
- … Charles Darwin Down, Bromley, Kent, Feb. 1860 [Darwin’s …
- … 363–6). See also letter from John Lubbock, [after 28 April 1860?]. 4 Origin , p. 188. …
Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
Essay: Design versus necessity
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—by Asa Gray DESIGN VERSUS NECESSITY.—DISCUSSION BETWEEN TWO READERS OF DARWIN’S TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, UPON ITS NATURAL THEOLOGY. (American Journal of Science and Arts, September, 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic or pantheistic…
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- … (American Journal of Science and Arts, September , 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … Monthly for July , August , and October , 1860, reprinted in 1861. I …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much …
Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … the last proof sheets on 26 December 1859 ; published 1860 1 st US ‘revised and augmented’ …
- … 2 nd to 3 rd editions; US edition By June 1860 Darwin was at least open to the …
- … be needed ‘ soon, ever, or never ’. By November 1860 he had heard that it was , and it was …
- … additions now sent.— In the meantime, in July 1860, a ‘revised and augmented’ American …
- … he had yet to start it on 28 January, but on 2 February 1860 he told Herbert Spencer that it was …
- … (see letter from Jeffries Wyman, [ c . 15] September 1860 ). Among pigs in a particular …
- … who only began corresponding with Darwin in November 1860, too late for the third edition. …
The whale-bear
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Darwin came to regard ‘bear’ as a ‘word of ill-omen’. In the first edition of Origin he told the story of a black bear seen swimming for hours with its mouth wide open scooping insects from the water ‘like a whale’. He went on to imagine that natural…
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- … ( William Henry Harvey to Charles Darwin, 24 August 1860 ) Darwin came to regard ‘bear’ as …
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…
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … a new ear-trumpet for him from London, and again in 1860 . Covington still assisted …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited sites in both France and …
- … ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. 3; Hutchinson 1914, 1: 51). …
- … book, Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865). By 1860, Lyell had begun work on a sixth edition …
- … completed and set in type for Elements of geology in 1860 and then re-set in 1861 for …
- … well as the Swiss lake-dwellings, was originally written in 1860 for the sixth edition of the ‘ …
- … discoveries and conclusions which had been made before 1860; but I gladly took advantage of the …
- … to them, or to any authors of later date than the summer of 1860, I must have expanded the plan of …
- … expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1860 15 (1861): 284–343. Translated by …
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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- … vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the same letter he reminded Lyell of …
- … who was already ill-disposed towards Owen following his 1860 review of Origin , wrote to Falconer …
- … exercise Darwin was Huxley’s assertion, first made in his 1860 review of Origin , that in order …
- … and Viola species, had interested Darwin since 1860; it continued to capture his attention ( …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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…
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … to the copy he had sent five years previously in his 1860 letter to Hooker , Darwin exclaimed …
- … matter, and he was far more satisfied with the results. In 1860-61 and again in 1864 Charles Darwin …
- … most transformative photographs of Darwin.The years between 1860 and 1864 took a physical and …
- … his ‘venerable beard’! Images: Charles Darwin, 1860-61, William Darwin, Courtesy of Harvard …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … Bridges, Thomas (b) [Oct 1860 or after] [Keppel …