To G. G. Stokes 11 March [1868]
Summary
Sends GGS examples of feathers from an albino peacock and repeats his query about the zones of colour [see 5950].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | CUL (Add MS 7656: D75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6003 |
To Alfred Wrigley 11 March [1868]
Summary
Regrets and apologises for a misunderstanding regarding Horace’s leaving Clapham School. Is sure he wrote an earlier letter which AW evidently did not receive.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Wrigley |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 42–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6004 |
From J. J. Weir 11 March 1868
Summary
Courtship of goldfinches. Male display. [See Descent 2: 95.]
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 53–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6005 |
To Edward Alfred Smith [11–31 March 1868]
Summary
Instructions for woodcuts showing sexual differences in beetles, for Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
| Date: | [11–31 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7052 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Smith, E. A. | (1) |
| Stokes, G. G. | (1) |
| Wrigley, Alfred | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Smith, E. A. | (1) |
| Stokes, G. G. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Wrigley, Alfred | (1) |
3.11 Edwards, in Illustrated London News
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< Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three-quarter view to the left, must have been taken at the same session as the profile published in Men of Eminence in 1866. The baggy sleeve of Darwin’s coat looks…
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- … < Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
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< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
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- … Woman’s Art Journal , 16:1 (Spring–Summer 1995), pp. 3–11. Julius Bryant (ed.), English Heritage …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
