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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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  • … mimicry among insects. Alfred Russel Wallace, in a letter to his daughter dated 27 November 1896, …
  • … putting up of a statue to Darwin!’ – Wallace intended ‘a kind, careful but positive refusal’ …
  • … supporters in Oxford. The Professor of Physiology John Burdon Sanderson wrote to Tylor to suggest, …
  • … that they were ‘quite common place without being vulgar’. A letter in the Hope Pinker collection of …
  • … ‘dull, photographic’ quality of his portraits. Yet Karl Pearson assured the sculptor in 1906 that …
  • … vision of the building and its functions that Acland and John Ruskin had conceived half a century …
  • … in Caen limestone 
 references and bibliography Letter from William Darwin to his father …
  • … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press}, vol. 26. Undated letter from ‘Waller’ to Hope Pinker, …
  • … of letters, Royal Academy archive, HRHP/LPM/UVW31). Undated letter from H.E. Luxmoore of Eton …
  • … (eds), More Letters of Charles Darwin , 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1903), vol. 1, p. 38. Anon., …
  • … Selection (London, Paris, Melbourne: Cassell, 1896). Letter from Poulton to Acland, 25 Nov. 1896, …
  • … 2, 1897 ), proof copy, OUM archive, Box 1, HM 1874–1902. Letter, dated ‘Oxford, Dec. 10’ [c. 1896 …
  • … Press, 1909), pp. 118–120. Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of John Ruskin, 2 nd ed . , 2 vols …
  • … of Leiden, 2016, at leidenuniv.nl, accessed September 2019. John Holmes, Temple of Science: The …
  • … Museum of Natural History, 2020), pp. 136, 148–149. John Holmes, Temple of Science: The Pre …

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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  • … the publication of Origin in late November 1859. In his letter of spring 1862, Darwin’s brother …
  • … he expressed with it (if correctly identified) in his 1861 letter to Gray was shared by many readers …
  • … print 
 references and bibliography Letter from Darwin to Hooker, 17 Dec. [1860], DCP-LETT …
  • … Monthly Magazine 69:413 (Oct. 1884), p. 762, illustrating  ‘A reminiscence of Mr. Darwin’ [by …
  • … (eds), More Letters of Charles Darwin , 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1903), vol. 2, illus. facing …