From W. E. Darwin [April 1871?]
Summary
J. S. Mill’s account of the moral sense in Utilitarianism [1863] appears muddled. [See Descent 1: 71 n.]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 76–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7048 |
To Frederic Harrison 1 April [1871]
Summary
Discusses his concept of beauty. "I daresay I have made too much of natural selection".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederic Harrison |
| Date: | 1 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.392) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7650 |
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin 1 April 1871
Summary
Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.
| Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 68–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7651 |
To F. J. Wedgwood [after 1 April 1871?]
Summary
Protests against FJW making the struggle for existence still more odious by calling it ‘selfish competition’.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [after 1 Apr 1871?] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (3 March 2004) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7651F |
From G. H. Darwin [1–4 April 1871]
Summary
Mentions some photos relating to expression.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1–4 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7790 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Harrison, Frederic | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, F. J. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
Matches: 1 hits
- … feet (DAR 210.7). ^14^ See Foundations , pp. 40–1, 238. ^15^ This phenomenon …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … climatologie asiatiques. 2 vols. Paris, 1831. (DAR 35.2: 401; Stoddart 1962, p. 22a). Darwin …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
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.
Matches: 1 hits
- … rewritten in Origin 4th ed., p. 402. 40. p. 401. 41. p. 403. This substitution …
