From John Lubbock 29 January 1862
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Will visit CD on Saturday.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3417 |
From J. E. Gray 29 January 1862
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Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16];
his attacks on CD and his theories.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3419 |
| letter | (2) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
Suggested reading
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There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested titles that focus Darwin’s correspondence, as well as scientific correspondence and letter-writing more generally. Collections of Darwin’s letters …
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- … Davies, J. 1870. Letter writing. Quarterly Review 129 : 220–44. Lucas, E. V. 1898. …
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
Caernarvon, Wales
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Books to study
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- … Adam Sedgwick advises Darwin on geoloical books to study and updates him on the field trip in …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 …
Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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- … Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology during his …
1.12 Marian Huxley, drawing
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< Back to Introduction Portrayals of Darwin by women in his social circle cannot be lumped together as the products of adoring amateurs. In 1878 he was sketched by Marian (‘Mady’) Huxley, who was then only in her late teens, but already a trained and…
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- … (London: Michael Joseph, 1997), pp. 22–23, 55, 107, 120, 129, 140–141, 155, 175–176. Janet Browne, …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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- … 2014), pp. 116f. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. 129. …
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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- … 5 january 1924 Utrecht 129 Lulofs S. (Sicco) …
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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- … January 1924 Utrecht 129 Lulofs S. (Sicco) …
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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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of …
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…
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … ‘Journal’; Appendix I). [34] See Notebook M, p. 129 ( Notebooks ). [35] ‘Dec 30 th …
