To J. V. Carus 11 April [1867]
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CD is delighted that JVC will undertake translation of Variation.
Agrees with JVC’s opinion of Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)]. CD believes it is bad policy for Haeckel to speak so positively about a disputed theory [i.e., CD’s] and particularly regrets the severity of EH’s criticisms of other authors.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 8–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5498 |
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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 …
