To D. F. Nevill 15 January 1877
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Thanks DN for references.
The Apocyanaceae that catch Lepidoptera represent the most gratuitous case of cruelty in nature known to CD, since the captured butterfly is of no use to the plant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10789 |
From W. H. Leggett 15 January 1877
Summary
At Asa Gray’s request, writes what he knows about Pontederia cordata.
| Author: | William Henry Leggett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: B127–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10790 |
From F. W. Pim 15 January 1877
Summary
Reply to CD’s note ["Holly berries", Collected papers 2: 189–90] from a beekeeper: attributes the scarcity of bees to the harshness of weather in preceding spring.
| Author: | Frederic William Pim |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10791 |
From W. E. Darwin [15 January 1877]
Summary
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10794F |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Leggett, W. H. | (1) |
| Pim, F. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
| Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Leggett, W. H. | (1) |
| Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
| Pim, F. W. | (1) |
1.15 Albert Goodwin, watercolour
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< Back to Introduction In 1880 the watercolourist Albert Goodwin was apparently invited to Down to produce that rare thing – a portrait of Darwin with members of his family. As Henrietta Litchfield, Darwin’s daughter, explained when she reproduced it…
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Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … young, especially ladies, to study nature. Letter 115 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, S. E., …
Search tips
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In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…
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- … marks to limit strings. For example to search for 115: 23 in the Darwin Archive, using the …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
The "wicked book": Origin at 157
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Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…
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- … Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 …
Cambridge
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Preparation and specimens
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- … Letters about leaving Cambridge, preparing for the voyage, sending specimens, and news from Darwin …
2.14 Boehm, Westminster Abbey roundel
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< Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was installed in Westminster Abbey in 1888, six years after his grand funeral and burial there. Like the seated statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum of 1884–1885…
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- … 2008), pp. 32, 41, 165. J. van Wyhe in ‘Iconography’, p. 115, mentions a once-existing full-size …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … I however repeat, merely from hearsay but [ f.206r p. 115 ] which in this instance – may …
2.11 Christian Lehr, plaster bust
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< Back to Introduction A plaster bust of Darwin by the German artist Christian Wilhelm Jacob Lehr the younger, dating from 1883, has found its way to a historic zoological library in the Netherlands. This is the Artis Bibliotheek, Natura Artis…
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- … York Botanical Garden. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. 115. …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … in L. nissolia . Darwin wrote (‘Climbing plants’, p. 115): ‘If it be true that species become …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 16 may 1902 Coevorden 115 Kniphorst G. Phil.nat …
Portraits of Charles Darwin: a catalogue
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Compiled by Diana Donald The format of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits of Darwin are found in a very wide range of visual media. For the purposes of this catalogue, they have been divided into four broad categories, according to medium.…
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- … ‘Panoptikon’. Cf. J van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. 115. Olaf Breidbach, Visions of Nature: …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 115 Kniphorst G. Phil.nat.cand. …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
