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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,…
Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … He studied physics and geology in Genève, Bern and Berlin (Dr., 1846). Habilitation in physics (1847 …
- … Karl Ritter. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Vol. 2. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1955. p. 684. …
- … Chemist, botanist and collector Born in Berlin, he studied chemistry, got a position in the …
Fritz Müller
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Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … was re-photographed and published by Sophus Williams of Berlin in 1885 (Tucker collection, New York …
Biodiversity and its histories
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The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories, which brought together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science, to explore how…
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … copy came from the Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. accession or collection …
2.11 Christian Lehr, plaster bust
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< Back to Introduction A plaster bust of Darwin by the German artist Christian Wilhelm Jacob Lehr the younger, dating from 1883, has found its way to a historic zoological library in the Netherlands. This is the Artis Bibliotheek, Natura Artis…
4.38 Franz Goedecker, caricature
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< Back to Introduction In a caricature by the German artist Franz Goedecker, Darwin stands in front of a desk, confronting a monkey with a face resembling his own. It holds his book on earthworms, and is squatting on a copy of a German translation,…
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- … ( The Descent of Man ), and was published by Carl Simon of Berlin. The reference to The …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … üb das Geschtecht der Pflanzes—also Nacht. von einigen Berlin 1763? [Kölreuter 1761–6] …
- … der Königlichen Akad: der Wissen: Aus dem Jahre 1834.— Berlin 1836.— “Vergleich: Anat der Myxinoiden …
- … [Sageret 1830] 19 th Abhand. Konig. Ak. Berlin. 1834. Müller on Myxine [Müller 1837] …
- … ausgeführten wissenschaftlichen Expedition . 12 vols. Berlin. *128: 165 Leroy, …
- … 1, bk 2: “Beobachtungen und Bemerkungen über Chile”.) Berlin. [Abstract in DAR 205.4: 33.] 119: …
- … Ueber die geographische Vertheilung der Säugethiere . Berlin. 119: 18a Mitchell, …
- … der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , pp. 15–48. *119: 18v.; 119: 18a …
- … voyage fait aux Îles Malouines en 1763–64. 2 vols. Berlin. [Darwin Library.] 119: 1a …
- … zur Anthropologie und allgemeinen Naturgeschichte . Berlin. [Darwin Library.] 128: 14 …
- … Grundzügen einer allgemeinen Pflanzengeographie . Berlin. *119: 4v. ——. 1852. The …
- … der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen . Berlin. [Darwin Library.] 119: 11a …
- … Archiv für Naturgeschichte . Edited by A. F. Wiegmann. Berlin. 1835–. 119: 11a …
Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007)
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Founding editor, Darwin Correspondence Project Fred, as he was known to all who worked with him, first conceived of a project to publish all of Darwin’s correspondence in 1974 on his retirement as President of the American Council of Learned Societies,…
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- … Second World War, and was part of the US administration of Berlin in its aftermath. He became a …
Portraits of Charles Darwin: a catalogue
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Compiled by Diana Donald The format of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits of Darwin are found in a very wide range of visual media. For the purposes of this catalogue, they have been divided into four broad categories, according to medium.…
Frank Chance
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The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
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- … study of languages. In 1858 he translated Rudolf Virchow’s Berlin lectures on cellular pathology …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … ed. Christiane Groeben, Anton Dohrn, A Life for Science (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1991) pp. 65, …
From morphology to movement: observation and experiment
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Darwin was a thoughtful observer of the natural world from an early age. Whether on a grand scale, as exemplified by his observations on geology, or a microscopic one, as shown by his early work on the eggs and larvae of tiny bryozoans, Darwin was…
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- … Darwin was a thoughtful observer of the natural world from an early age. Whether on a grand scale, …
ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
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- … In the period 1992-2000 he was selected for fellowships at Berlin (“Walther Rathenau” Fellowship, …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … in Bonn, Rudolf Leuckart in Giessen, and Alexander Braun in Berlin. Darwin’s most ardent …
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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- … vols. Paris, 1770. (DAR 32.2: 132v.). Darwin Library–CUL, Berlin 1769 ed. †† (vol. 2). …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … von Charles Darwin reformirte Descendenz-Theorie . 2 vols. Berlin: Georg Reimer. Haeckel, …
