From Ernst Haeckel 21 December 1871
Summary
Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.
His trip to Dalmatia.
German reception of Descent.
Mentions current work.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8114 |
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- … Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872]. A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with …
- … und den besten Wünschen für das neue Jahr 1872 | Ihr treu ergebener | Ernst Haeckel …
- … für das folgende Jahr schicken. Möge Ihnen 1872 frische Gesundheit und neue Kraft zu neuen …
- … and the best wishes for the new year 1872 | Yours most faithfully | Ernst Haeckel …
- … sponges ( Haeckel 1872a ) was published in December 1872 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 20, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 December 1872 ). Haeckel relied on embryology in his …
- … my best wishes for the year to come. May 1872 bring you fresh health and new strength for …
To Ernst Haeckel 27 December 1871
Summary
Refers to priest who believes in "our ape-like progenitors".
EH’s work on sponges.
Pangenesis.
Describes new edition of Origin [6th]
and his work on plant crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 27 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A Abt. 1–52/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8121 |
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- … Victor Carus (Bronn and Carus trans. 1872; see letter from J. V. Carus, 7 October …
- … and n. 7). Expression was published in 1872. Cross and self fertilisation was published …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Origin 6th ed. : The origin of species by …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Variation : The variation of animals and …
To A. B. Buckley 18 December [1871]
Summary
Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.
Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 18 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6508 |
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- … 84; 36: 141–54, 362–86. Lyell, Charles. 1872. Principles of geology or the modern changes …
- … of Charles Lyell’s Principles of geology ( Lyell 1872 ). CD refers to proof-sheets for the …
- … which he finished working on by 10 January 1872 (see Correspondence vol. 20, ‘Journal’ ( …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
- … the orbit upon oceanic currents’. In Lyell 1872 , 1: 277–80, Lyell argued that Croll had …
To Archibald Geikie 30 December 1871
Summary
Is obliged for valuable letter [see 8123] and encloses queries about the manner of gradual obliteration of ridges or furrows in old pasture lands in various parts of England.
Gives details of his experiment to test his observations of the downward flow of worm-casts.
Refers to [Lyon] Playfair, [A. C.] Ramsay, and AG’s edition of [J. B.] Jukes, [A student’s manual of geology, 3d ed., 1872].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Archibald Geikie |
Date: | 30 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8125F |
From Henry Holland [16 December 1871]
Summary
Sends CD a ptarmigan.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7412 |
To A. D. Bartlett 19 December [1871]
Summary
Can ADB allow T. W. Wood to sketch one of his dogs in hostile and friendly positions?
Do elephants in the Zoological Gardens carry tails aloft when excited?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 19 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8111 |
To J. V. Carus 5 December 1871
Summary
Sends sheets [of the 6th ed. of Origin].
Thanks JVC for his letter about the sheep.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 5 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 82–83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8096 |
From Louis Bouton 15 December 1871
Summary
Pleased to hear from CD. Sends more facts about the life and habits of the inhabitants of the Seychelles.
Author: | Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8107A |
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- … been found, but see Correspondence vol. 20, letter to C. H. Morris, 16 January [1872] . …
From Archibald Geikie 29 December 1871
Author: | Archibald Geikie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8123 |
From Francis Galton 22 December 1871
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A40; DAR 195.4: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8118 |
From Hubert Airy 9 December 1871
Summary
Reply to CD’s letter of 5 Apr 1871 [7659], in which he asked HA for further details on when and how platysma myoides contracts.
Replies to CD’s questions about sources on leaf arrangement.
Gives news of speech and paper about CD.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8101 |
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- … Read 27 February 1873. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 21 (1872–3): 176–9. …
To E. S. Morse 3 December 1871
Summary
Obliged for ESM’s article ["On adaptive coloration of the Mollusca", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 14 (1870–1): 141–5]. Glad to have error corrected about protective colouring of shells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 3 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8092 |
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- … regards of | Edw S Morse. ’ The only other pre-1872 paper by Morse in the Darwin Pamphlet …
To Henry Lee 17 December [1871]
Summary
Apologises for expressing himself stupidly [see 8086a]. He did not mean to give an opinion on what the species was, but merely referred to the range of L. australis. CD will look at specimens, but "the subject has gone much out of my mind; & my health is so weak, & I am so overwhelmed with proof-sheets & other work" that he hopes to be excused if he does not investigate the specimens closely.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Lee |
Date: | 17 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (May 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8108A |
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- … 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1871
Summary
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8117 |
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- … 19 August 1871 (see Nature , 11 July 1872, p. 213). He met Gladstone’s private secretary, …
To F. E. E. Wedgwood 19 December [1871]
Summary
Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
Date: | 19 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 387) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8110 |
To J. J. Moulinié 5 December 1871
Summary
Sends corrections for new French edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 5 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 ff. 24–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8095 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
To H. E. Litchfield 2 December [1871]
Summary
Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.
Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 2 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8089 |
From Mary Treat 20 December 1871
Summary
Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.
Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.
Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8113 |
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- … series, How plants behave ( A. Gray 1872 , pp. 43–4; Gray referred to her observations …
To H. E. Litchfield [before 2 December 1871]
Summary
Sends MS of section on voice as a means of expression [Expression, pp. 86–93]. CD is dissatisfied with it – wishes he could avoid the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [before 2 Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8134 |
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- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Spencer, Herbert. 1858–74. Essays: scientific, …
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Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
Bouton, Louis | (1) |
Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Davis, Mary | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lee, Henry | (1) |
Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
Morse, E. S. | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Treat, Mary | (1) |
Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can …
- … as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July [1872] ). By the end of the year Darwin …
- … s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ). Always closely involved in …
- … translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He recapped the history of the French …
- … of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To persuade his US publisher, …
- … Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A worsening breach The …
- … beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ). I consider that you have …
- … Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, Mivart flung back by return of post …
- … errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the affair to the …
- … towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872] ). Despite Darwin’s request that he …
- … world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January 1872 ). Darwin, determined to have the last …
- … acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate controversy,’ Darwin …
- … I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ). Darwin's theories under …
- … the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 ). 'Here is a bee' …
- … it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I wanted some encouragement’, he …
- … to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Müller had sent him a …
- … of natural and sexual selection to bees (H. Müller 1872), and with his reply Darwin enclosed an …
- … standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Finishing Expression …
- … doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was far from idle during their …
- … to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ). Riviere had been suggested to …
- … clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 ) and invited Butler to dinner the …
- … from Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin, [before 30 May 1872] , and letter from Samuel Butler, 30 …
- … feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the beginning of June, …
- … Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 13 May 1872 ). Delivery to the press brought only …
- … myself’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 25 July 1872 ). A battle for the independence of …
- … partisan reply ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1872 ). On 13 June, a messenger arrived in …
- … to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872 ). Darwin was quietly using his …
- … an old honest Tory’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1872] ). Darwin and Wallace: …
- … Wallace’s defence ( letter to Nature , 3 August [1872] ). Although the two men were …
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,…
New features for Charles Darwin's 208th birthday
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The website has been updated with an interactive timeline (try it!) and enhanced secondary school resources for ages 11-14. What's more, the full texts of the letters for 1872 are now online for the first time, and a selection of Darwin's…
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…
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Letter 8321 - Darwin to Litchfield, H. E., [13 May 1872] Darwin consults his …
- … Letter 7345 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [15 June 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, reports …
- … Letter 8427 - Darwin to Litchfield H. E., [25 July 1872] Darwin thanks Henrietta for …
- … 8168 - Ruck, A. R. to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] Amy Ruck reports the results …
- … 8193 - Ruck, A. R. to Darwin, H., [1 February 1872] Amy Ruck sends a second …
- … Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin asks his …
- … Letter 7345 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [15 June 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, reports …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [13 December 1872] Mary Treat details her …
- … Letter 8683 - Roberts, D. to Darwin, [17 December 1872] Dora Roberts reports an …
- … 8144 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [5 January 1872] Darwin asks his niece, Lucy, …
- … 8168 - Ruck, A. R . to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] Amy Ruck reports the results …
- … Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin asks his …
- … Letter 8169 - Wedgwood, L. to Darwin, [20 January, 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, gives the …
- … 8427 - Darwin to Litc hfield, H. E., [25 July 1872] Darwin thanks Henrietta for …
- … 8153 - Darwin to Darwin, W. E., [9 January 1872] Darwin thanks his son William …
- … Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [13 December 1872] Mary Treat details her …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … Lydia Becker, 2 August 1863 ; to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 ). Click on the play …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … the fittest’ as ‘survival of the better’ (see Spencer 1872, and the letter to Herbert Spencer, 10 …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
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< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
Thomas Rivers
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Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
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- … for the prosperity I have long enjoyed” ( 29 March 1872 ). …
4.5 William Beard, comic painting
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< Back to Introduction In June 1872, Darwin’s friend Asa Gray, the Harvard Professor of Botany, sent him a print or photograph of a comic painting by the American artist William Holbrook Beard. Titled The Youthful Darwin Expounding His Theories, it…
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Earthworms
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As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born …
- … him in May, August and October 1871, and in March and August 1872, but some of these payments, and …
- … April 1871, and reproduced in the London Journal in June 1872. Darwin also sent it to various …
- … one of Huxley, in The London Journal , 55:1426 (8 June 1872), p. 357, illustrating an article …
4.20 Frederick Waddy, caricature
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< Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy appeared in the journal Once a Week through 1872. It clearly emulated the more famous series in Vanity Fair, and indeed, Waddy’s drawing of Darwin has the same title or…