From Hubert Airy 26 [September–November 1873]
Summary
The Royal Society referees have rejected HA’s phyllotaxy paper, and it will not be printed in Philosophical Transactions. HA is not sorry for he has found new facts which limit the applicability of his views. Now believes that the original leaf arrangement was not necessarily always two-ranked but rather that existing arrangements have developed from a variety of forms with differing numbers of leaf-ranks.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Sept-Nov] 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9073 |
From Francis Galton 30 May 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for completed questionnaire;
answers his query about determining mean heights of men.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A74–A76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8928 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 19 November [1873]
Summary
Sends the very little globulin and haemoglobin he has to be tested with artificial gastric juice. He could get more from Samuel William Moore. Perhaps T. L. Brunton knows about the digestion of chlorophyll by animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 19 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9155 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1862, and Insectivorous plants , pp. 110–11). See letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 15 …
From Ernst Haeckel 8 October 1873
Summary
On CD’s paper ["Complemental males of certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
Comments on paper by W. H. Dallinger and J. J. Drysdale ["Life history of a Cercomonad", Mon. Microsc. J. 10 (1873): 53–8].
Discusses origin of life, the Gastraea theory and concept that primary germ layers are homologous in all animals. Notes similar views of E. Ray Lankester ["On the primitive cell-layers of the embryo", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 11 (1873): 321–38].
Reception of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9091 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the embryo", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 11 (1873): 321–38]. Reception of Darwinism in …
From Adolph Reuter 6 April 1873
Summary
Sends photograph of a diseased roebuck shot by Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.
Author: | Adolf Reuter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8844 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the one mentioned here (see Rörig 1907 , p. 11). Schloss Klein-Glienicke was the hunting …
From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1873
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 173; DAR 209.6: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9034 |
From Ernst Haeckel 23 February 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for comments on Die Kalkschwämme.
Plans trip to Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.
Discusses work of a Polish translator, Ludwik Masłowski.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8783 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 October 1873
Summary
On Nepenthes.
Asks JDH, if he publishes, to mention CD’s work on digestive powers of Drosera so that charges of plagiarism will not be made against CD later when he publishes.
Describes at length his observations on the movements of Desmodium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 300–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9118 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 January [1873]
Summary
Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.
Comments on various articles he has read.
Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 253–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8185 |
To Edward Frankland 7 October [1873]
Summary
Requests a piece of the most sensitive litmus paper in order to test the secretions of minute hairs of plants which catch minute flies. [See 9098.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 7 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9090A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Baxter (see letter to W. W. Baxter, 11 May [1860 –2 or 1872–4? ], Calendar no. 8319, to …
From J. T. Moggridge 22 August 1873
Summary
He has added carbolic acid to the seed germination experiments and sends more results on the effect of formic acid. Formic acid inhibits mildew on dough but not on seeds.
Mildew never grows in ants’ nests.
Sends an account, from the Mishnah, of grain stored by ants.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9024 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … see Morris et al. 1984. Mishnah Peah 4: 11 deals with ownership of grain in ant holes. …
From Francis Galton [before 28 May 1873]
Summary
Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 May 1873] |
Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8889 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … vol. 20, letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 11 December 1872 ). Galton 1873b . The British …
To Federico Delpino 1 May 1873
Summary
Asks whether, in Italy, varieties of Lathyrus odoratus, Pisum sativum, and Phaseolus multiflorus must be grown separately to come true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 1 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8892 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 11 August 1866, p. 756. [ Shorter publications , pp. …
From Mariabella Fry 15 February 1873
Author: | Mariabella Hodgkin; Mariabella Fry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8767 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … The picture was described as a panel, 11 1 4 in. by 17 in. , lent by William Tetlow …
From Hermann Müller 12 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [see 8901].
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8909 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … them (see Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 209–11). Gaspard Adolphe Chatin’s comments on Ranunculus …
To W. W. Baxter 8 September [1873]
Summary
Requests chemicals for Drosera experiments. Lists 12 acids tried so far.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 8 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 6 (EH 88206058) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9046 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 7 Citric 8 Oxalic 9 Tartaric 10 Arsenious 11 Chromic 12 Phosphoric Have you any other …
From T. H. Huxley [13 November 1873]
Summary
Arrangements for meeting in London.
Glad CD has heard about Dohrn’s affairs.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9183 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … p. 6). See letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 November 1873 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, …
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 August [1873]
Summary
Answers CD’s questions of 25 July [8987] about temperatures at which cold-blooded animals are killed.
Doubts heat rigor was induced in Drosera. Gives his view of the relation of excitability to increase in temperature.
Suggests experiment to show that electrical changes in plant are the same as in animal muscle and nerve [see Insectivorous plants, p. 318].
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 34–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9008 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 5 June 1874, and published in Nature , 11 June 1874, pp. 105–7, and 18 June 1874, pp. …
To G. H. Darwin 12 October [1873]
Summary
Asks GHD whether he can tell him what inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to the horizon in order to let vertical rain rebound off as much as possible.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … The graver magazines’ in the Spectator , 11 October 1873, pp. 1283–4, included comments …
From Henry Jackson [1873?]
Summary
Notes referring to passages in Expression [annotated in places by Francis Darwin, presumably when preparing 2d ed.].
Author: | Henry Jackson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 53.2: 91–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13819 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. Expression 2d ed. : The expression of the …
letter | (99) |
Darwin, C. R. | (59) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Baxter, W. W. | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (95) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (5) |
Darwin, Francis | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 16 hits
- … on the topic. Lyell also added the following note on page 11: *Mr. John Lubbock published …
- … 2 have struck out Galton & Prestwich at p. 11 who will be surprisd [ sic ] to …
- … had done ‘an injustice’ to Falconer and Prestwich. 11 In the same review Lubbock expressed …
- … he took exception to the wording of the note on p. 11 of C. Lyell 1863c, which implied that Lubbock …
- … The statement made by Sir Charles Lyell, in a note to page 11 of his work, that my article on the …
- … of the note in the preface (letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). No correspondence with …
- … of the preface of C. Lyell 1863c and reworded the note on p. 11. Unlike the earlier …
- … Lyell revised both the preface and the note on page 11 of the third edition of Antiquity of man …
- … versions of the end of the preface and of the note on page 11 are included below. Preface, C …
- … as well as of the subsequent issues.” Note on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (original version) …
- … made by him in company with Mr. Busk. Note on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (revised version) …
- … in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence vol. 11, pp. xv–xvii). For a comparison of …
- … 1984, pp. 154–9. 7. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] …
- … Bartholomew 1973. 8. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March …
- … 18 April [1863 ]. 10. Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March …
- … (rough draft of letter from T. H. Huxley to Charles Lyell, 11 June 1865, Imperial College, Huxley …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 7 hits
- … German edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of …
- … & a few of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn …
- … letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition …
- … we shall immediately see)’. Page xiv, n., line 11, delete ‘in the years 1794–5’. …
- … substitute for ‘but then . . . kinds of flowers.’: 11 In just some of …
- … sentence also appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 20. 11. p. 56. This whole paragraph was …
- … in Origin 4th ed., p. 449. 47. p. 409–11. This passage also appears, with slight …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
Summary
< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Art Journal , 16:1 (Spring–Summer 1995), pp. 3–11. Julius Bryant (ed.), English Heritage …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Matches: 8 hits
- … backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). I feel …
- … review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). Darwin was …
- … Correspondence vol. 20, letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). To Darwin’s relief, …
- … the moment of being hatched ( letter to Nature , 7 and 11 May [1874] ; Spalding 1872a). …
- … & that must be enough for me’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). Plants that eat . …
- … cartilage, bone & meat &c. &c.’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). His research …
- … Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [11 October 1873] ). Darwin wasted …
- … the photograph he sent highly ( letter from D. F. Nevill, [11 September 1874] ). At the …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
Matches: 7 hits
- … gave him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether …
- … on Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … of Natural History’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). She had had assistance …
- … for a second edition ( letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ), Darwin asked him to use …
- … see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). Yet Darwin was now …
- … interest. He told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1862] ): ‘This is a nice, but …
- … from one parent’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). really good …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
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…
Matches: 8 hits
- … Blair, R.H. 11 July 1871 Worcester College for the …
- … Chaumont, F.S.B.F. de 11 March 1871 Woolston, …
- … 9 Nov 1870 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 1 Feb 1871 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 7 Sept 1872 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 1 Feb. 1871 11 Saint Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington. W., London, …
- … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
- … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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…
Matches: 11 hits
- … regarding species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, …
- … by descent put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the same letter, he …
- … bottom of seas, lakes, and rivers ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). Quarrels at …
- … Academy of Sciences, Berlin (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix III), and of the Société des …
- … unsuccessful ( see letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] ). The council of …
- … [9 May 1863] , and memorandum from G. H. Darwin, [before 11 May 1863]) . As he struggled …
- … to drive the quietest man mad’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). Hooker and Gray agreed …
- … tropical plants than before (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VI). He was fascinated with …
- … pistils mature at different times ( see letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). The fertility of …
- … ‘Crossing & Sterility’ (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II). When Darwin finished, by …
- … animal suffering caused by them (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix IX). Francis Darwin later …
Darwin's 1874 letters go online
Summary
The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…
Race, Civilization, and Progress
Summary
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,…
Matches: 4 hits
- … man in his most "primitive wildness" ( letter to Henslow, 11 April 1833 ). They …
- … Letter 204 : Darwin to Henslow, J. S., 11 April 1833 "The Fuegians are in a more …
- … 98). Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October [1859] "the …
- … Letter 2503 : Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, C., 11 October [1859] I suppose that you do not …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
Matches: 4 hits
- … St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A worsening …
- … Mivart not to acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate …
- … attacks on Darwin became notorious, had written on 11 May expressing concern that his recently, …
- … well informed: `The die is cast’, he wrote excitedly on 11 May , when the matter was first raised …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
Matches: 6 hits
- … the popularity of his book, writing to Robert Cooke on 11 April , ‘though I believe it is of …
- … for extended periods. In a letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 11 October , Darwin described how the …
- … Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the …
- … visits from distinguished persons. Gladstone came to Down on 11 March. ‘I expected a stern, …
- … not been a difficulty to me,’ he replied to Romanes on 11 June , ‘as I have never believed in a …
- … that they become quite tipsy’ ( letter to W. M. Moorsom, 11 September [1877] ). Moorsom replied …
Charles Harrison Blackley
Summary
You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
Summary
1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
Matches: 5 hits
- … to think of the future’, Darwin confessed to William on 11 September just hours after Amy’s …
- … naturalist Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December 1876 ; letter to Samuel Smiles …
- … who died at the age of 10 in 1851, but William, who was 11 years old at the time of her death, would …
- … you are one of the best of all’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 11 September [1876] ). …
- … do I cannot conceive’, Darwin wrote anxiously to Hooker on 11 September. By the time Darwin …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 10 hits
- … in that little sheet of note-paper! DARWIN: 11 My dear Hooker… What a remarkably …
- … 1 OCTOBER 1846 7 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 11 JANUARY 1844 8 C DARWIN TO A …
- … 10 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 24 AUGUST 1855 11 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 5 JUNE 1855 …
- … 22 NOVEMBER 1856 29 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 APRIL 1861 30 A GRAY TO C …
- … A GRAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 1858 58 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 11 OCTOBER 1858 59 A GRAY TO …
- … HOOKER, 18 OCTOBER 1859 63 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1859 64 JD …
- … 13 NOVEMBER 1859 66 C DARWIN TO R OWEN, 11 NOVEMBER 1859 67 C DARWIN …
- … 17 FEBRUARY 1861 111 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 DECEMBER 1861 112 C DARWIN …
- … DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 MAY 1864 159 FROM A GRAY 11 JULY 1864 160 C DARWIN …
- … TO A GRAY 28 JANUARY 1876 204 FROM A GRAY 11 DECEMBER 1874 205 TO A …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives …
- … continue his observations indoors ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] …
- … two letters to the Athenæum ( Correspondence vol. 11). Darwin’s anxiety about the matter was …
- … and the question of human origins ( Correspondence vol. 11). Wallace, however, traced a possible …
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
Darwin and Religion
Summary
When Darwin published On the Origin of Species, was there a clear cut division between those who supported science and those who supported God? Find out how Darwin’s letters reveal a complex reaction from all sides and a desire from Darwin to keep his…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Pupils explore the reaction to Darwin’s findings as evidenced through his letters. Activities …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
Summary
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…
Darwin's bad days
Summary
Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:
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- … Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
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…