To Hermann Kindt [18–22 October 1865]
Summary
Handwritten extract from Origin 3d ed., p. 514.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Date: | [18–22 Oct 1865] |
| Classmark: | Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (30 March 2017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4918F |
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- … out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction; not-withstanding that …
From J. T. Moggridge 27 December [1865]
Summary
Sends a tin full of Ophrys by his brother, who should take about 60 hours to reach Down.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 210 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4957 |
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- … of pink-winged Varieties or from places unknown to me— Believe me y rs . very truly | J …
From Hermann Kindt 23 October 1865
Summary
Thanks for autograph [Autographic Mirror 3 (1865) no. 262] and corrections of HK’s biographical sketch of CD [Autographic Mirror 3 (1865): 82–3].
| Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4923 |
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- … out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction; notwithstanding that …
To A. R. Wallace 1 February [1865]
Summary
Exchange of photographs.
Aru pigs present perplexing case, whether wild or domesticated.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 53) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4760 |
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- … that the wild species from which the latter had descended was unknown ( Variation 1: 65). …
From B. D. Walsh 12 November 1865
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s paper on "Climbing plants".
Mentions Asa Gray’s complimentary notice in Silliman’s Journal [Am. J. Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82].
His difficulty in understanding how males of Daphnia or any other genus can produce eggs. If there is no impregnation, how can there be sexual organs? Why call one form male and another female?
He has sent CD his paper on "the new Potato Bug".
Will soon send "On Phytophagi Species & Unity of Coloration". [phytophagic!?]
Complaints about practices of the English Post Office.
His current research and description of the rationale of his experiments.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Riley bequest of 1948) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4934A |
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- … always supposed that Climbers had some unknown means of perceiving where there was a twig, …
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
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- … a new family. Its habits are at present unknown; but I feel confident that it is aquatic …
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
| Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Kindt, Hermann | (2) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
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< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
4.26 Christmas card caricature, monkeys
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< Back to Introduction Sem’s Christmas card with a caricature of Darwin was not the only thing of its kind. A sale catalogue of 2009, Charles Robert Darwin . . . One Hundred and Two Items, included the front leaf of a greetings card inscribed in…
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- … venerable monkey-ancestor. physical location unknown accession or …
4.57 silhouette cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A strange double silhouette caricature found its way into the Darwin family collection in the 1930s. Darwin’s outsize caricatured head is attached to the body of a monkey with a long tail, which has a demonic appearance. He…
2.2 Thomas Woolner metal plaque
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< Back to Introduction In Benedict Read’s account of the work of Thomas Woolner in Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture, there is a reference to a ‘bronze medallion of Darwin . . . catalogued in Woolner’s studio in February 1913 (lot 123), which was presumably…
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- … by the Wedgwood firm? physical location unknown accession or collection …
4.58 'Simian, savage' . . . drawings
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< Back to Introduction An anonymous satire in the Darwin archive has been descriptively titled ‘Simian, savage and savant’. Darwin on the right, elegantly dressed and carrying a top hat, represents the acme of civilisation. The central, nearly naked,…
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- … University Library originator(s) of images unknown; one of the wash drawings is signed …
2.21 Montford, relief at Christ's College
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< Back to Introduction An oval bronze plaque with a relief portrait of Darwin by Horace Montford is at Christ’s College, Cambridge, the college where Darwin had been an undergraduate. It is likely to have been based on one of the many photographs of…
4.50 Cigar box lid design
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< Back to Introduction A brightly coloured chromolithograph with a portrait of Darwin was intended to decorate the inside of a cigar box lid. It comes from a book of sample designs carried by a cigar salesman, and can be dated to the late 1880s or…
1.13 Louisa Nash, drawing
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< Back to Introduction This sketch portrait of Darwin was drawn by Louisa A‘hmuty Nash as a memento of her friendship with the Darwin family and a token of her unbounded admiration and affection for Darwin himself. She and her husband, the lawyer…
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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- … Library originator of image unknown: assumed to be Leonard Darwin …
2.18 Montford, Carnegie bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1901 the immensely rich steel manufacturer and business magnate Andrew Carnegie commissioned Horace Montford for two bronze busts of Darwin. The exact circumstances of the commission are unknown, but Carnegie must have been…
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … Library originator of image unknown engraver, after a photograph by Elliott …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … prejudice in Descent of man . In a letter from an unknown correspondent on 13 June 1877 , he …
4.12 'Fun', Wedding procession
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< Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March 25, 1871, and contained an amusing echo of the cartoon representing Darwin as ‘A venerable orang-outang’ that had appeared in the Hornet a few days earlier. The…
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…
4.19 George Montbard, caricature
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< Back to Introduction In this watercolour drawing by Charles Auguste Loye, who called himself George Montbard, Darwin is in a ‘Gallery of ancestors’. He is improbably pictured as a connoisseur in a sleek cut-away tail coat, training his lorgnette on…
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- … at lower left) date of creation unknown (1870s?) computer-readable date …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
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< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … holder Marti Dominguez originator of image unknown artist working for the Bosch family …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
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< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … to Frederick Sem date of creation unknown; probably late 1870s or c.1880-1 …
4.55 Harry Furniss caricature
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< Back to Introduction Harry Furniss’s caricature of Darwin is in a set of seventy-two pen and ink drawings by this artist now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. They were acquired in 1947-8 from Theodore Cluse, who, acting…
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … the watercolour, and what happened to it subsequently, are unknown. Janet Browne has suggested that …
