To Hermann Hoffmann 20 April [1871]
Summary
Obliged for letter about dog.
Comments on HH’s article ["Zur Geschlechtsbestimmung", Bot. Ztg. 29 (1871): 81–9, 97–109].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7702 |
From H. M. Westropp 20 April [1871]
Summary
Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].
Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].
| Author: | Hodder Michael Westropp |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 38–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7703 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Westropp, H. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hoffmann, Hermann | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hoffmann, Hermann | (1) |
| Westropp, H. M. | (1) |
4.20 Frederick Waddy, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy appeared in the journal Once a Week through 1872. It clearly emulated the more famous series in Vanity Fair, and indeed, Waddy’s drawing of Darwin has the same title or…
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- … < Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … A celebrated author and divine, &c., &c. Page 420, 9 fifteen lines from top, …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
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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- … hope’ for certain preliminary restrictions, and that (p. 420) ‘we can only make a really successful …
