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Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists

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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…

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  • … and published a multi-volume edition of Darwin's works. Otto Zacharias had popularised …
  • … other Germans whose photographs appeared in the album,  Otto Caspari and Gustav Jäger . Krause …
  • … east Bohemia, sent Darwin birthday wishes a year too late in 1878 and pleaded to have his photograph …
  • … German album ( Letter from Carl  Kraus , 10 February 1878 )   …

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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  • … latter chapters alone worth reading. ( To Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ). Hermann Müller, in …
  • … A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, Murray was ready to print the second …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time.  And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth.  All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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  • … anyone who wrote a lot, but the novelty soon wore off and in 1878 the machine was given away. …
  • … reassure Darwin that the introduction was far from dull. Otto Zacharias, a young German journalist …
  • … , was also told that the book was dull ( letter to Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ). Darwin …

3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo

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< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…

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  • … when he took his photographs. This one must be before August 1878, when it was reproduced as a …
  • … copies in the Darwin archive say the photograph was taken in 1878. The latter date is accepted by …
  • … Leonard wrote to his father from Brompton Barracks in April 1878 enclosing two photographs …
  • … of the photograph at Down House that he took it in 1878.   It was this photograph which …
  • … a wood engraving to illustrate an obituary of Darwin by Dr Otto Zacharias in the Illustrirte …
  • … date of creation undated; probably early 1878 
 computer-readable date c.1878-01-01 to c …
  • … to his father, enclosing unidentified photographs, 25 April 1878. Woodburytype reproduction of …