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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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  • … ). Francis in Würzburg As he had done in 1878, Francis Darwin spent the summer of 1879 …
  • … mimicry) that Darwin said was quite new to him ( letter to Raphael Meldola, 6 June [1879] ). In …
  • … cross-fertilisation, had first contacted Darwin in 1876. By 1878, Darwin was sufficiently impressed …

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 …