From W. W. Keen 26 September 1873
Summary
Sends corrections of Descent and Expression.
| Author: | William Williams Keen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 24–5, DAR 169: 2, and Expression 2d ed., p. 169 n. 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9072 |
To George Cupples 28 April [1873]
Summary
Asks whether GC knows who gave CD a scolding in last Edinburgh Review [Apr 1873].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 28 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS. 84.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8886 |
From J. V. Carus [before 8 May 1873]
Summary
Publisher [Schweizerbart] has seen CD’s new book advertised [Cross and self-fertilisation] and wishes to publish a German translation of it.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 8 May 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8890 |
From James Crichton-Browne 16 April 1873
Summary
Sends 15 studies in expression, acted by his wife.
Describes David Ferrier’s experiments on electrical brain stimulation of animals; these show direct relation between convolutions of the brain and groups of muscles [West Riding Asylum Med. Rep. (July 1873)].
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 319 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8861 |
From Robert Swinhoe 26 March 1873
Summary
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 336 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8824 |
From Herbert Spencer 26 April 1873
Summary
Wants to use CD’s support to put pressure on Michael Foster to enable Huxley to take an immediate holiday.
| Author: | Herbert Spencer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 232 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8883 |
To William Turner 21 March [1873]
Summary
Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8818 |
From Lajos Felméri 3 January 1873
Summary
Thanks for copy of Expression. Notes on expression among the Széklers.
Sends a copy of his book of travels in Scotland.
| Author: | Lajos Felméri |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8723 |
From Hermann Müller 19 May 1873
Summary
Praises Expression.
Reports on Fritz Müller’s observations of cross- and self-fertilisation. HM will cultivate the two forms [i.e., mainly self-fertilised and mainly cross-fertilised] in the way CD has described.
He continues his observation of wild flowers. Encloses drawing of Viola tricolor with notes on its self-fertility.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B181–2, DAR 77: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8907 |
From James Crichton-Browne 2 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.
Sends photos of lunatics;
will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 318 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8795 |
To T. W. Higginson 27 February [1873]
Summary
Praises TWH’s Army life in a black regiment [1870]. CD always thought well of Negroes, and is delighted to have his impressions confirmed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Date: | 27 Feb [1873] |
| Classmark: | LL 3: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8790 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 23 May 1873
Summary
Sends results of his observations of cross- and self-fertilisation of Hypecoum grandiflorum and Eschscholzia californica [see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 331–2].
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B179–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8920 |
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- … letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 15 May 1873 and n. 1. In Cross and self fertilisation , p. 331, CD reported Hildebrand’s observation that Hypecoum grandiflorum was highly self-sterile, citing Hildebrand 1870 , …
- … 1870 , p. 467). CD received a copy of Die Verbreitungsmittel der Pflanzen (The means of propagation of plants; Hildebrand 1873 ) in November ( letter …
From J. T. Moggridge 1 February 1873
Summary
He does not accept Wallace’s definition of instinct because it excludes "inherited experience", i.e., "knowledge acquired by and transmitted through ancestors".
House-flies do not seem to have an instinctive fear of trap-door spiders.
Miss Forster gives him news of CD.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8756 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 November 1873
Summary
W. H. Flower is ill and obliged to go off for six months. Wants to return the money Flower contributed to fund for his holiday, asks the amount.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 329 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9126 |
From Anton Dohrn 27 January 1873
Summary
The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8750 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 21 May 1873
Summary
VOK’s paper ["Osteology of Hyopotamidae", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 147–65] appears a very valuable one.
Discusses work of VOK’s brother [Alexander] on Sagitta and the ascidians.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 21 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 300. Register 1a. Folder 4. P. 1-2 r) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8916 |
From Anton Dohrn 7 June 1873
Summary
News of Naples Zoological Station developments.
His remarks on physiology in the Academy were aimed at Prof. Ludwig and his school.
The usual "exact" methods in experimental physiology want only a little pushing to put an end to superstition.
Recounts how he had worked out the explanation of Rhizocephala morphology via the Anelasma – an example of both the power of inheritance and the power of genealogical investigation. R. Kossman’s work has now confirmed AD’s explanation.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8937 |
From T. W. Higginson 30 March 1873
Summary
Pleased CD enjoyed his book [Outdoor papers (1871)].
Rejoices at CD’s kindly feelings toward the coloured race.
The Index is in financial trouble due to F. E. Abbot’s unworldliness.
Agassiz is setting up a summer school for natural history off the Massachusetts coast. His pupils develop more liberal scientific opinions than Agassiz’s.
Encloses some notes on expression.
| Author: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8830 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1870. Army life in a black regiment . Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co. Marcou, Jules. 1896. Life, letters, …
- … letter from Asa Gray, 12 October 1871 ). In Expression , pp. 6–7, CD described the unconscious actions of a billiard player moving as if to correct the course of his ball. CD had noted weeping for slight causes among adult males in primitive societies as an exception to a general rule that adults, especially males, did not cry as freely as children ( Expression , pp. 154–5. ) Higginson 1870 . …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 September [1873]
Summary
Very pleased at JSBS’s discovery ["On the electrical phenomena which accompany the contractions of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Rep. BAAS 43 (1873): 133].
Asks for pure animal substances [proteins] for Drosera experiments. His other sources have been T. L. Brunton, Edward Frankland, W. A. Miller (now dead), and Hoffmann of Berlin [A. W. von Hofmann?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9056 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 4 March 1873
Summary
Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.
Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8797 |
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- … 1870). Reinwald published a new translation of the sixth English edition in 1876 (Barbier trans. 1876). Reinwald had suggested Charles Frédéric Martins as a possible successor to Moulinié (see Correspondence vol. 20, letter …
- … 1870 and Lubbock 1873 ). The first and second French translations of Descent (Moulinié trans. 1872 and Moulinié trans. 1873–4) were both published in two octavo volumes. In October 1872, Reinwald had proposed Samuel Jean Pozzi as the translator of Expression in preference to Moulinié, who was already ill ( Correspondence vol. 20, letter …
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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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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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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 …
