From Emil Rade [before 16] February 1877
Summary
Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.
| Author: | Emil Rade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 16] Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 29 (EH 88206080) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10826 |
To Ernst Haeckel 16 February 1877
Summary
Thanks EH for album of photographs of German scientists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/43 [9896]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10847 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February 1877
Summary
Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 60–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10848 |
To Emil Rade 16 February 1877
Summary
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him [see 10826]; it is quite beyond his deserts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emil Rade |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10849 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Rade, Emil | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Rade, Emil | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Rade, Emil | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
2.16 Horace Montford statue, Shrewsbury
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his birthplace, Shrewsbury, in 1897, is one of the finest of the commemorative portrayals of him. Up to that time, the only memorial to Darwin in the town was a wall tablet of…
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- … < Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his …
3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…
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- … Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 216. Browne, ‘Looking at Darwin: …
Buenos Ayres
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Bones from Argentina
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- … Writes of sending home fossil finds at Bahia Blanca and Guardia del Monte from his overland …
4.28 'English celebrities' montage
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< Back to Introduction One of the stranger appropriations of Elliott and Fry’s portrayal of Darwin was to make him one of a group of ‘Authors’, in an album titled English Celebrities, 19th Century (1876). Fiction writers and scientists were grouped…
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- … accession or collection number NPG Ax132900 (album 216) copyright holder National …
Edward Lumb
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Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
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- … Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, …
Life of Erasmus Darwin
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The Life of Erasmus Darwin (1879) was a curious departure for Darwin. It was intended as a biographical note to accompany an essay on Erasmus's scientific work by the German writer Ernst Krause. But Darwin became immersed in his grandfather's…
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- … a mental anachronism which no one can envy' ( Life , p. 216). Darwin's biographical …
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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- … 216 Woltersom H.L. …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 1 (1834): 21–6. (DAR 35.2: 357). Carne, …
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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- … 216 Woltersom H.L. …
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…
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- … American Journal of Science and Arts ] vol. 44 p. 1 to 216 —— vol 45— Whole vol. …
