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From Edward Wilson   4 February 1868

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Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.

Author:  Edward Wilson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Feb 1868
Classmark:  DAR 181: 122
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5838

From John Edward Gray   4 February 1868

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Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.

Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].

Author:  John Edward Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Feb 1868
Classmark:  DAR 165: 213
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5839
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Race, Civilization, and Progress

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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…

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  • … at Cambridge, John Stevens Henslow. Letter 204 : Darwin to Henslow, J. S., 11 April …

Darwin’s first love

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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…

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  • … of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR 204: 43). Her ‘crossed’ letters are …
  • … Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR 204: 47), referring to Darwin as a Beetle Hunter …

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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  • … 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1903), vol. 2, illus. facing p. 204. Darwin Centenary: The Portraits, …

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

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  • … have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2795 games! GRAY:   204   It would do [Mrs Gray] good to …
  • … 203  C DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 JANUARY 1876 204  FROM A GRAY 11 DECEMBER 1874 …

Falkland Islands

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'Man in his primitive wildness'

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  • … Describes his geological and zoological observations of Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands, …

3.13 Edwards 'Representative Men'

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< Back to Introduction A sequel to Portraits of Men of Eminence appeared in 1868, published by the London firm of Alfred William Bennett and again edited by Edward Walford. It was titled Representative Men in Literature, Science, and Art. The…

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Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)

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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…

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  • … Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She …

Darwin on race and gender

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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…

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  • … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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  • … or previously acquired knowledge” (A. R. Wallace 1870, p. 204). Moggridge suggested instead that …

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 September 1916   204 Haimand Wal G. …

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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  • 204 Haimand Wal G. Apothecary   …

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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  • … (1) Unidentified (204) Union Bank (1 …