From C. L. Balch [after 15 April 1871]
Summary
CD’s photographs have been sent to [J. W. A.] McDonald, the sculptor, who will make a marble bust for the Liberal Club of New York and a bronze or plaster one for sale; CD will receive a copy. CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Club, and
CB asks whether he could give them a few words of advice on a practical method of biological study for beginners.
| Author: | Charles Leland Balch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 15 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7408 |
From Arthur Nicols 15 April 1871
Summary
Objects to the negative reviews of Descent, notably in the Athenæum and the Times.
The exceptions are the Academy, Nature, and his own, in the Field [37 (1871): 210].
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7687 |
To C. L. Balch 15 April 1871
Summary
Thanks for the report of CLB’s lecture about Descent to the New York Liberal Club on 3 March 1871.
Sends four photographs of himself for the sculptor J. W. A. MacDonald.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Leland Balch |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | New York World, 8 May 1871 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7687F |
| Balch, C. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Balch, C. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Balch, C. L. | (2) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
4.15 George Cruikshank, comic drawing
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< Back to Introduction A sheet of comic drawings titled ‘Comparative anatomy à la Darwin’, is signed by George Cruikshank junior, who has been variously identified as the great-nephew or the illegitimate son of his more famous namesake. Unfortunately…
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- … < Back to Introduction A sheet of comic drawings titled ‘Comparative anatomy à la …
Experimenting with emotions
Summary
Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … of children’, Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix III, p. 415 ). Darwin’s study of emotional …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] began the research that …
