To William Ogle 13 April [1871]
Summary
Reports further observations on contraction of platysma. Has been assisted by J. Wood. [See Expression, pp. 302, 303.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 11 (EH 88205909) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7679 |
To John Murray 13 April [1871]
Summary
Has no idea who wrote the Times review [of Descent]. Writer has no knowledge of science and "seems a windbag full of metaphysics & classics".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 220–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7680 |
From George Fraser 13 April 1871
Summary
Corroborates and offers explanation of fact that male ghost-moths (Hepialis humuli) closely resemble females. [See Descent 1: 402.]
| Author: | George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7681 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fraser, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Fraser, George | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
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< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
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- … < Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in …
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
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< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
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- … Popular Science Monthly , 74 (April, 1909), pp. 318-319, 413. Gertrude Mae Prescott, ‘Fame and …
3.17 Lock and Whitfield, 'Men of Mark'
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< Back to Introduction The ambitious series of photographs of Men of Mark, published by the firm of Lock and Whitfield between 1876 and 1883, was a successor to similar sets which had appeared in the 1850s and 1860s. This one was distinguished by its…
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- … Monthly , 74 (April 1909), frontispiece and pp. 334-5, 413. Anon. [Geoffrey Belknap], ‘Darwin’s …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … ends without regard to any Divine law. Mr. Darwin (p. 413) himself speaks of difficulty in carrying …
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.
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- … appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 453. 49. p. 413. This passage, with additions and …
