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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum
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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…
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- … in the famous BAAS meeting of 1860. After Hooker had spoken, Raphael Meldola and the anthropologist …
- … lap. It compensated him for the rebuff he had received in 1878, when his proposal to create a bust …
- … from William Darwin to his father Charles Darwin, 10 July [1878], in The Correspondence of Charles …