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3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
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- … Your photograph tells me where Herbert [the history painter John Rogers Herbert] got his Moses for …
- … Moses bringing down the tables of the law to the Israelites, a newly unveiled mural in the House …
- … in the Annual of Phrenology and Physiognomy of 1876, a bearded man with a lofty brow and domed …
- … ‘Insane’ and ‘Idiotic’. Darwin himself, in a letter of 1848, had jested that an acquaintance with a …
- … Margaret Cameron’s photographs to the oil portrait by John Collier. Despite its lack of …
- … (but this was a cause of later confusion). According to a letter from Darwin’s daughter Henrietta to …
- … of a surviving example is that of S.J. [Samuel James] Wiseman, a Southampton photographic firm. It …
- … vol. 2, Clark-Green, call no. gra00084. Darwin’s letter to Joseph Hooker, who was then in Calcutta, …
- … and Gray’s reply, 11 July 1864 (DCP-LETT-4558). Darwin’s letter to Hooker, 10 June [1864], enclosing …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … hurrah for my species-work’ ( Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … exchanges on geology with David Milne, Robert Chambers, John Phillips, and Daniel Sharpe, …
- … travellers in general. Darwin was asked by the editor, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, to write …
- … by Darwin on the use of microscopes on board ship ( see letter to Richard Owen, [26 March 1848] ). …
- … to Milne directly, he sent a long rejoinder in the form of a letter for publication in the Scotsman. …
- … asked for it to be destroyed. Only the draft of Darwin’s letter remains ( letter to the Scotsman …
- … that his original fieldwork was ‘time thrown away’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] ) …
- … Lyell, was that the boulders were transported by floating ice, a notion which was roundly criticised …
- … ice transport occurring in combination with subsidence, a view which—with his Glen Roy argument—was …
- … that it would be a ‘thorn in the side of É de B.’ (letter to Charles Lyell, 3 January 1850 ). …
- … marine invertebrates himself (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to Leonard Jenyns, 10 April [1837]) …
- … short paper on his new balanus and called it ‘Arthrobalanus’, a name later given up in favour of …
- … fully. Sometime before the end of December 1847, John Edward Gray, keeper of the zoological …
- … opinion that such a monograph was a ‘desideratum’ ( letter to J. L. R. Agassiz, 22 October 1848 ), …
- … abortive stamens or pistils ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter from J. S. Henslow, 21 November …
- … care what you say, my species theory is all gospel.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 ). …
- … with similarities to Arthrobalanus, and about Lithotrya , a barnacle that burrows into rocks. …
- … sacrifice the rule of priority for the sake of expedience ( letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February …
- … it as ‘the greatest curse to natural History’ ( letter to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849] ). …
- … Museum of Zoology, has been transcribed with Darwin’s letter to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849 …
- … the battle, he gave up only from fatigue and ill health ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 April 1849 ). …
Visiting the Darwins
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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister, Susan Loring. …
- … household, and her own part in one of Darwin’s experiments. A complete transcript of the …
- … faces, that is the drawing & dining-rooms, on a large lawn, a pretty shrubbery at one side, …
- … them, & green fields bordered by trees stretching away— A most pleasant home view— We went down …
- … in the dining-room from thence we went into the drawing-room,— A large room, looking on the lawn, …
- … latest instrument of torture” as Dr. Hooker called it, a little, low, wicker chair that looked as …
- … expressions of wonder— Complete text of the letter from Jane Gray to Susan Loring, 28 …
- … I was in too much of a hurry on Saturday morng. to add to my letter thanks for the nice budget of …
- … is at Woolwich, studying for the Artillery— We all sat down, & a little talk & then tea …
- … pink & white silk striped, Dr. Hooker, Mr. Tyndal, Wm. Hooker, a boy of 16 but looking only 14, …
- … but the only livery big buttons of white metal— The butler, a nice old man, who has lived with them …
- … dinner & lunch, though staying at Miss Wedgewood’s— A very agreable, pleasant man, of most …
- … went to bed, cheerful with its bright blaze— Sir John & Lady Lubbock, who live near, came …
- … eno. to accommodate their large family; & that the rector, a bachelor, of course did not need or …
- … faces, that is the drawing & dining-rooms, on a large lawn, a pretty shrubbery at one side, …
- … them, & green fields bordered by trees stretching away— A most pleasant home view— We went down …
- … to dinner, & in the afternoon as Miss Wheeler to make a visit— A nice, comely, pleasant, large, …
- … in the dining-room from thence we went into the drawing-room,— A large room, looking on the lawn, …
- … latest instrument of torture” as Dr. Hooker called it, a little, low, wicker chair that looked as …
- … She is an elderly maiden lady, but full of life & interest, & a very agreable companion— …
- … came in, on his daily morning ride— Then came lunch & a good bye to our most delightful …
- … After lunch we went to see Annette’s collection of shells, a beautiful set & scientifically …
- … a note from Mrs. Hooker including a note to her from Lady Rogers, saying a friend of theirs, Mr. …
- … time in England grows short— This morng. came your letter, dear Sue, & accounts of a snow …
