From William Whewell 11 April 1839
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Sends a book [his translation of Goethe’s Hermann u. Dorothea] as a wedding gift.
Author: | William Whewell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-504 |
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4.11 'Fun' cartoon, 'A little lecture'
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< Back to Introduction ‘A little lecture by Professor D----n on the development of the horse’, a cartoon drawn by John Gordon Thomson for Fun magazine in July 1871, features ‘Professor’ Darwin addressing an audience of his ‘fellow monkeys’. His…
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- … < Back to Introduction ‘A little lecture by Professor D----n on the development of …
Darwin's illness
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Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to protect him from cold. In a letter to his cousin William Fox, he wrote: "Long and continued ill health has much changed me, & I very often think with…
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- … Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … of the Medallists’, The Medal , 3 (July 1983), pp. 4–11. Attwood, ‘The medals of Alphonse Legros …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … sowing themselves and becoming naturalised. Page 411, par. 2, line 5, insert after …