To James Crichton-Browne 22 May 1869
Summary
Thanks for MS observations on expression. Discusses hair standing on end in terror and rage. Asks JC-B to observe contraction of platysma myoides. "Your description of the grinning and exposure of the canine teeth under furious rage is excellent. I presume that you would not object to my quoting it." Asks about contraction of "grief muscles". Comments on blushing. Offers to send book by G. B. A. Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 22 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 327 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6755 |
To J. J. Moulinié 23 October [1869]
Summary
Would be delighted to have JJM translate new book [Descent].
Can CD legally bring out new edition of Origin in France with new publisher? Has been ill-used by V. Masson and C. Royer. Wants edition without Royer’s preface.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1869] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 11–12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6955 |
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- … see letter from Victor Masson, 29 September 1869 ). CD’s copy of Royer trans. 1870 is in …
- … letter from Edouard Claparède, 6 September 1862 ). In the preface to Royer trans. 1870, …
- … letter to J. V. Carus, 22 October [1869] ). The references are to Clémence Auguste Royer and Victor Masson and to Royer trans. 1870. …
To John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
Masson et Fils have brought out a third French edition [of Origin] without informing CD and without the advantage of the corrections of the 4th and 5th English editions. For this and other reasons CD wants to give translation rights for the 5th English edition to C. Reinwald.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 205–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6977 |
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- … letter to Victor Masson, [after 29 September 1869] . The third French edition of Origin was published in 1870 ( …
- … 1870). The reference is to Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald ; for the quotation, see the letter …
- … 1870); this included criticism of CD’s hypothesis of pangenesis, which had appeared in Variation. For more on Royer’s translations, including the prefaces, see Harvey 1997 , pp. 62– 9, 76–9, 97–9. For more on CD’s opinion of the translations, see Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
To the editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History 23 July 1869
Summary
CD passes on notes prepared for the French translation of Orchids so that his book may be brought up to date in English as well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
| Date: | 23 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6840A |
From J. V. Carus 20 October 1869
Summary
Koch [of Schweizerbart’s, publisher of German translations of CD’s works] has inquired when CD’s new book on man will be out. JVC assures CD that the book should be translated into German, and offers his services.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6947 |
To A. B. Meyer 27 November [1869]
Summary
Not willing to sit for photographer again.
ABM’s translation of Wallace’s Malay Archipelago has not yet arrived.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 362 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7014 |
To M. C. Lloyd 4 August [1869]
Summary
Encloses letter from W. B. Dawkins concerning "our old savage progenitors with their ground-down teeth".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Charlotte Lloyd |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6852 |
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- … discovered. ( Dawkins 1870 , Lucas 2007 , p. 326; see also letter to W. B. Dawkins, 19 …
- … letter to CD has not been found, but presumably reported the initial results of his investigation; see n. 3, below. Dawkins commented in his later published account of the excavations that all the adult human teeth discovered at Rhagatt were ground perfectly flat ( Dawkins 1870 , …
From Anton Dohrn 30 December 1869
Summary
He has gone through the whole embryology of the Crustacea and has arrived at a pretty well-established genealogy of the whole class; has even tried to write a history of the whole tribe. Finds he cannot adopt the old separation of Orders in the Class; the limits between them are indistinct.
Would like to study embryology of Limulus. Asks CD’s help in obtaining a female specimen.
Outlines his proposal to establish a marine zoological station.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 204 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7038 |
To George Charles Wallich 18 April [1869]
Summary
Regrets he cannot come to London to be photographed [for GCW’s Eminent men of the day (1870)]. Invites GCW to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Charles Wallich |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.374) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6701 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 January 1869]
Summary
No paradox that unimportant characters are important systematically. This view removes heavy burden from CD’s shoulders. Relief that JDH does not object.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22 Jan 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 114—15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6568 |
To Louis Rérolle 2 August [1869]
Summary
Gives the definition of ‘distal’ and explains what ‘thrips’ are. Suggests that LR uses his descretion in his translation of Orchids about certain descriptive phrases such as ‘saddle-formed’, but suggests he use them each at least once.
Declines offer to look over LR’s translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Rérolle |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1869] |
| Classmark: | Aguttes (dealers) (20 February 2020, lot 240) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6848F |
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- … letter from Louis Rérolle, 30 July 1869 ( Correspondence vol. 17). Rérolle was translating Orchids into French ( Rérolle trans. 1870 ). …
- … letter to A. G. More, 24 June [1869] ). CD’s account of More’s observations is in ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , pp. 149–50 ( Collected papers 2: 146). See also Orchids 2d ed. , pp. 98–9, and Rérolle trans. 1870, …
From J. V. Carus 3 June 1869
Summary
Will use new English edition [5th, of Origin] in preparing for [4th] German edition. Bronn’s translation of Origin in the title as "Entstehung" is not so precise as "Ursprung" would be. The publisher does not object to changing the title, but JVC is doubtful, because the Origin is so well known in Germany as Entstehung. Asks CD’s opinion.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6774 |
From A. B. Meyer 24 November 1869
Summary
Wants to arrange a joint photograph of CD and Wallace for a publication on their lives and works.
| Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7008 |
From Adolf Bernhard Meyer 16 November 1869
Summary
Sends his translation of Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.
Wishes to translate 1858 essays by CD and Wallace from Linnean Society Proceedings [Collected papers 2: 3–19].
Plans journey to tropics.
Hopes to meet CD.
| Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6990 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1870; a copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. There is a lightly annotated copy of Meyer 1869a in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. CD’s annotations are probably notes for his letter …
- … letter to Meyer of 22 September 1868 has not been found. The reference is to Wallace 1869c , a translation of Alfred Russel Wallace’s The Malay Archipelago: the land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise ( Wallace 1869a ). Meyer spent at least three years (1870 …
To J. J. Moulinié 15 November [1869]
Summary
Makes suggestions for French translation of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 13–14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6989 |
From John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
JM advises CD regarding his relations with Masson, the French publisher of the Origin [1866], and the possibility of Reinwald’s publishing a translation of the 5th edition.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 373 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6978 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 11 October 1869
Summary
Thanks AdeC for his interesting letter [6915]. The experiment strikes CD as a very valuable one. CD has forwarded the letter to Hooker, who is glad to make the trial. CD will have many experiments in progress next spring but he will open the packet of seeds and if they are numerous, will try a few himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6933 |
From G. H. Darwin [2 December 1869]
Summary
Discusses some calculations which he is doing for CD on the ratios of red and brown colouring in some animals.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Dec 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7158 |
To Fritz Müller 18 July [1869]
Summary
Reports reviews of Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].
Is preparing for a French translation of Orchids.
The case of Abutilon which is sterile with some individuals is remarkable.
Has sent FM’s account of the monstrous Begonia to the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 18 July [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6835 |
To William Thierry Preyer [before 21 March 1869]
Summary
Replies to inquiries about his life and career.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | [before 21 Mar 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 262–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6540 |
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| E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Layton, Charles | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (68) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Carus, J. V. | (5) |
| Koch, Eduard | (3) |
| Layton, Charles | (3) |
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of 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…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Francis Darwin
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Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences. Francis completed…
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- … Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished …
Jane Gray
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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 …
Casting about: Darwin on worms
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Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…
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- … Earthworms featured in the news announcement in May 2014 that a citizen science project had …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Darwin and Gender Projects by Harvard Students
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Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin Correspondence Project staff developed a customised set of 'Darwin and Gender' themed resources for a course on Gender, Sex and Evolution first taught at Harvard…
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- … Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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- … John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … The following extracts and selected letters explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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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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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … < Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The …
Moral Nature
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In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
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- … Letters | Selected Readings In Descent of Man , Darwin argued that human …
