To Charles Lyell [19 March 1868]
Summary
The second volume of Lyell’s [Principles, 10th ed.] gives a "fair history of the progress of opinion on Species".
Pleased by allusion to Pangenesis: "an untried hypothesis is always dangerous ground".
Looks forward to chapter on domestication and on man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [19 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.349) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6023 |
From A. R. Wallace 19 March 1868
Summary
On sterility of natural species and natural selection. Closely allied forms from adjacent islands offer best chance of finding good species fertile inter se.
Problem of minute variations and sexual selection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B59–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6024 |
From Paolo Mantegazza 19 March 1868
Summary
Sends papers.
| Author: | Paolo Mantegazza |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6025 |
From B. J. Sulivan 19 March 1868
Summary
Writes of his son’s affairs.
Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6026 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Mantegazza, Paolo | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Mantegazza, Paolo | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1
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< Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old and enfeebled Darwin on the verandah of Down House, there are at least two other images of him created by the same firm at this period of his life - perhaps even on…
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- … < Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old …
4.10 'Hornet' caricature of Darwin
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< Back to Introduction Caricatures of Darwin that depicted him as a semi-ape are numerous and well known, but they marked a specific historical moment. Most date from the period following the publication of Descent of Man in 1871-2, extending through…
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- … of Charles Loring Brace (New York: Scribner’s, 1894), p. 319: account of a visit to Down in 1872, …
Frank Chance
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The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
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- … to the following passage in Descent of Man (vol. 2, p. 319): Even in the colour of …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
Summary
In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … H. E. Litchfield to G. H. Darwin, 17 March 1882 (DAR 245: 319)) Emma wrote ten days later: ‘You will …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
