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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second half of …
- … been the naturalist and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th birthday, Darwin obliged with a …
- … The death of a Cambridge friend, Albert Way, caused Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, to …
- … led Darwin to the self-assessment, ‘as for one’s body growing old there is no help for it, & I …
- … The year started for Darwin with a week’s visit to London, staying at his brother Erasmus’s house. …
- … August 1873. Darwin had originally thought that Clark’s dietary treatment would ‘do wonders’, but as …
- … bad & have done pretty well’ ( letter to Horace Darwin, 9 January [1874] ). Horace came …
- … a week ( letter from E. E. Klein, 14 May 1874 ). John Burdon Sanderson sent the results of his …
- … He also did experiments with pepsin ( letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 25 April 1874) , and …
- … with his lecture at the Royal Institution ( letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 21 March 1874 ). …
- … the contraction of Dionaea leaves in Nature (Burdon Sanderson 1874). Hooker also gratefully …
- … 6 April 1874 , and letter to Anton Dohrn, 16 April and 9 August 1874 ). Darwin also helped …
- … by Michael Foster. He then studied under John Scott Burdon Sanderson at University College London, …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … Bunsen, C. K. J. (1) Burdon Sanderson, J. S. (66) …
- … (1) Caird, James (9) Caldcleugh, Alexander …
- … (3) Canestrini, Giovanni (9) Canfield, C. A. …
- … (1) Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John …
- … (6) Claus, C. F. (9) Clendon, George, Jr …
- … (1) Conway, M. D. (9) Conybeare, J. C. …
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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- … Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed …
- … central court of this remarkable building. Darwin’s statue was the only one that represented a …
- … this very building that he and Huxley had defended Darwin’s theories from Bishop Wilberforce’s …
- … calm’ and magnanimity. Tylor thought that Hope Pinker’s ‘speaking likeness’ of Darwin’s face would …
- … endowed the chair in zoology, formed the core of Oxford’s entomological collections, to which some …
- … had been added; and Hope himself had been among Darwin’s early coadjutors in entomological study. …
- … among Oxford biologists: he defended and developed Darwin’s theories, and exemplified them through …
- … and the Theory of Natural Selection (1896), to Cassell’s popular ‘Century Science’ series, and …
- … at Oxford, partly funded by the proceeds from Poulton’s book, was a very public affirmation of faith …
- … supporters in Oxford. The Professor of Physiology John Burdon Sanderson wrote to Tylor to suggest, …
- … identified with his name.’ Others suggested that Darwin’s statue should be paired with that of Isaac …
- … Institution was rejected by the Darwin family. Darwin’s son William had been deputed to appraise the …
- … the Natural History Museum statue of Darwin. Hope Pinker’s statue at Oxford is indeed …
- … explains the effect of inexpressive blankness in Darwin’s cape, which contrasts painfully with his …
- … Thomas Fowler, noted at the unveiling of Darwin’s statue, the intellectual breadth of his researches …
- … They believed that investigations of the workings of God’s unitary creation could lead not, as many …
- … particular experiments and researches, Hope Pinker’s Darwin has none, and this presentation of him …
- … Richard Hope Pinker date of creation 1898-9 computer-readable date 1898-01 …
- … W. Acland (Oxford: Horace Hart, 1894). Edward B. Poulton’s correspondence with William Flower, …
- … Letter, dated ‘Oxford, Dec. 10’ [c. 1896–1897] from Burdon Sanderson to Tylor, Bodleian Library, MU …
- … statue at Oxford’, Times (15 June 1899), pp. 7 and 9. ‘Unveiling the Darwin statue at the Museum …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … Down House measured by the ongoing tally of his and Emma’s backgammon games. ‘I have won, hurrah, …
- … Lodge with his wife, Amy, had settled in as his father’s botanical assistant, and their close …
- … concussion from a riding accident, and George Darwin’s ill-health grew worse, echoing Darwin’s own …
- … of the next generation of the family, with Francis and Amy’s child expected in September. Their joy …
- … to William on 11 September just hours after Amy’s death. For once, the labour of checking proofs …
- … dimorphic and trimorphic plants in new ways. New Year's resolutions Darwin began …
- … Elder and Company proposed reissuing two of Darwin’s three volumes of the geology of the …
- … not even to look at a single proof ’. Perhaps Carus’s meticulous correction of errors in the German …
- … in an anonymous article, which impugned not only George’s but also Darwin’s respectability (see …
- … that Mivart still had the capacity to damage George’s reputation. ‘I care little about myself but Mr …
- … the still raw memory of this incident that underlay Darwin’s heartfelt thanks to Wallace for his …
- … Darwin hoped not only to remove any stain on Lankester’s scientific reputation, but also to save the …
- … founded in March 1876 by the London physiologist John Scott Burdon Sanderson to discuss how best to …
- … with him on the subject, this did not affect Darwin’s pragmatic summing up of the situation: ‘It …
- … be wondered at—Nature in all her contrivances,—or man’s mind, able to investigate them to such …
- … results in this year’s experiments’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [ c . 19 March 1876] ). A less …
- … of heredity named perigenesis, which he sent to Darwin on 9 May . Haeckel argued that the …
- … ’, Darwin later told Muller ( letter to Fritz Müller, [9 February 1876] ). Likewise, when Johann …
