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From W. E. Darwin   [27 February 1882]

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [27 Feb 1882]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 113)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13347F

From W. T. Van Dyck   27 February 1882

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Encloses MS on sexual selection acting on street dogs of Beirut [MS of "On the modification of a race of Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 25 (1882): 367–70, published with a prefatory notice by CD.

Author:  William Thomson Van Dyck
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb 1882
Classmark:  DAR 180: 3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13710
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2.27 William Couper bust, New York

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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years …

Tierra del Fuego

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Barren coasts of Patagonia

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  • … Tells of the hostility of coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the insect world. …

'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

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  • … of categories of wild birds by sportsmen (Sheail 1976, pp. 22–7, Allen 1994, p. 177), and which some …

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…

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  • … towards brave clearness and honesty!' (Haight 1954–78 3: 227).     …

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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  • … to J. S. Henslow, March 1834;  Narrative  2 (Appendix): 227). ‘Philosophical tracts’, Darwin …