From Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.
Author: | Sigmund Fuchs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1877–8?] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10336 |
To Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sigmund Fuchs |
Date: | [1877–8?] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 221v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10337 |
To Albert Günther 28 January [1877]
Summary
Has signed certificates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 28 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10372 |
From G. J. Romanes [after 8 January 1877]
Summary
Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10554 |
From Adolphe de Stillfried [1877?]
Summary
Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.
Author: | Adolphe de Stillfried |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10744 |
To [E. M. Dicey?] [1877]
Summary
Gives his opinion on the education of girls in physiology. Would regret that any girl who wished to learn physiology should be checked.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
Date: | [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10746 |
From E. A. Darwin 17 [1877?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10754 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 17 January 1877]
Summary
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B55–8r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10757 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [early 1877?]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his comments on and praise of his book [Forms of flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [early 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B58v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10758 |
From Alphonse de Candolle January 1877
Summary
Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759 |
From Alpheus Hyatt January 1877
Summary
Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.
Author: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 357, 359 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10760 |
From Thomas Belt [before 18] January 1877
Summary
TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18] Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10761 |
From E. A. Darwin [1 January 1877]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10763 |
From Arthur Mellersh 1 January 1877
Summary
Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?
Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.
Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764 |
To Octavian Blewitt 1 January 1877
Summary
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96 RLF 1/2015/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764F |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 2 January [1877]
Summary
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 2 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10765 |
To Alfred Newton 2 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.
CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10766 |
From T. A. B. Spratt 2 January 1877
Summary
TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].
Author: | Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10767 |
To Asa Gray 3 January 1877
Summary
Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].
Is glad of the notice about black pigs.
Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;
thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10768 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 3 January [1877]
Summary
Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 3 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 January 1877, p. 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10769 |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
Belt, Thomas | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (77) |
Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Belt, Thomas | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
List of correspondents
Summary
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,…
Darwin The Collector
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Look at nature more closely and create and record your own natural collections.
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Detecting Darwin
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Who was Charles Darwin? What is he famous for? Why is he still important?
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- … Pupils act as Darwin detectives, exploring clues about Darwin’s life and work. No prior knowledge …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
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1 Belgrave Street, London
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Marriages and gossip
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1.4 Samuel Laurence drawing 1
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< Back to Introduction Samuel Laurence’s intimate chalk drawing of Darwin is dated 1853. It is likely that Darwin sat for the portrait at Down House, and Francis Darwin, in his catalogue of portraits of his father painted or drawn ‘from life’, noted…
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
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< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
4.44 'Puck' cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction In March 1882, a month before Darwin’s death, an admiring image of him appeared in the American comic journal Puck. It was in a cartoon drawn by Joseph Keppler, Puck’s co-publisher, co-editor and chief cartoonist, titled Reason…
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
3.4 William Darwin, photo 1
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< Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - first to William and later to Leonard - for the fashioning of his image. William, the eldest, apparently took up photography c.1857, when still in his teens, and…
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- … < Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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Language: Interview with Gregory Radick
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Darwin made a famous comment about parallels between changes in language and species change. Gregory Radick, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University, talks about the importance of the development of language to Darwin, what…
German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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Darwin And Evolution
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What is evolution? What did Darwin discover and how did he come to his conclusions?
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- … Activities give an introduction to Charles Darwin and his theories of evolution. Specimens brought …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … Lena much excited about the Mission which was just over. 1 Whilst it is fresh in my mind I …
Home learning: 7-11 years
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Do try this at home! Support your children’s learning by downloading our free and fun activities for those aged between 7-11 and 11-14 years, using Darwin’s letters.