From W. K. Parker 17 January 1879
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Sends CD a book on science and scriptures written by a clergyman friend [unidentified].
| Author: | William Kitchen Parker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11831 |
From Karl Höchberg 17 January 1879
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Points out comment by Grant Allen supporting his theory of the origin of colour sense. Is English translation of his essay possible?
| Author: | Karl Höchberg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11832 |
| letter | (2) |
| Höchberg, Karl | (1) |
| Parker, W. K. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Höchberg, Karl | (1) |
| Parker, W. K. | (1) |
1.17 Alphonse Legros drawing
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< Back to Introduction Alphonse Legros’s drawing of Darwin in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of three likenesses of him by this artist in different media, the others being a drypoint engraving and a medallion. Only the medallion is dateable, to 1881:…
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- … < Back to Introduction Alphonse Legros’s drawing of Darwin in the Fitzwilliam Museum …
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
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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- … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 23, no. 117, the original photograph ‘enlarged …
17 Spring Gardens, London
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Darwin in London preparing for the voyage
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- … Darwin is living in London persuading Fitzroy to accept him on the voyage and preparing clothing, …
2.21 Montford, relief at Christ's College
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< Back to Introduction An oval bronze plaque with a relief portrait of Darwin by Horace Montford is at Christ’s College, Cambridge, the college where Darwin had been an undergraduate. It is likely to have been based on one of the many photographs of…
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- … 2014), p. 128. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. 117. …
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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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…
Suggested reading
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Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
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- … (London, 2006), chapter 4: Controversy , pp. 84 – 117. Davidoff, L. & Hall, C., …
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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- … 2010), pp. 107–109. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. 117. On the firm of Broad & Son: ‘British …
George James Stebbing
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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
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- … of the Scientific Instrument Society 116: 22–9 and 117: 29–40. ‘The Portsmouth Lodge 487’, …
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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- … pp. 136, 138–153. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. 117. …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … all the major topics discussed by Milne-Edwards (DAR 72: 117). In his commentary, Darwin frequently …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … recording his findings in a botanical notebook (DAR 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … Notice of death. In: Societas entomologica 6, 1891. p. 117. N.N.: Prof. Johann Pichler. …
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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- … 23 december 1879 Arnhem 117 Kollewijn N.zn. A.M. …
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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- … https://www.wesselknoops.nl 117 Kollewijn N.zn. A.M. (Anthonie …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … notebook and sketchbook (Cambridge University Library DAR 117 and DAR 186: 43). Many of his …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … ‘Contributions, Essay on Classification,’ p. 117.) Now, these reptile-like fishes, of …
