To B. D. Walsh 19 December [1865]
Summary
Discusses a variety of subjects: Cynips, galls, potato bugs,
male Daphnia laying eggs.
His Primula experiment results differ from John Scott’s.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 19 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4952 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … obliged for your interesting letter of Nov. 12— I hope you will meet with the success …
- … See letter from B. D. Walsh, 12 November 1865 . In his paper on dimorphism in Cynips , …
- … other sexual ( Walsh 1864a ). In his letter of 12 November 1865 , he discussed his ongoing …
- … August 1866, p. 10, and 18 August 1866, p. 12, and in the letter from Alfred Newton, 15 …
- … Walsh 1865 . See letter from B. D. Walsh, 12 November 1865 and n. 8. According to Emma …
- … n. 14. See also letter from B. D. Walsh, 12 November 1865 . In his letter to CD of 1 …
- … and n. 9). See letter from B. D. Walsh, 12 November 1865 and n. 10. On John Scott’s …
To B. D. Walsh 14 February 1868
Summary
Requests entomological data on sexual selection, especially proportions of sexes.
Sends Queries about expression with note: "a great hobby of mine".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 14 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5876 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Feb 1868 …
To Benjamin Dann Walsh 3 April [1869]
Summary
Glad BDW has proved his case on dimorphism of Cynips.
Interested in galls
and BDW’s Cicada articles [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 3 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5482 |
To B. D. Walsh 23 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for Agassiz’s Lectures. Lyell does not believe a word about glacial action of any kind in lowlands of Brazil. Agassiz’s view of glacial movement has been given up by physicists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 23 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5455 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
Matches: 22 hits
- … See Correspondence vol. 12, letters to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] and [4 December …
- … John Obadiah Westwood (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November …
- … as the frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 12; see also letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 …
- … Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. …
- … Cantab. ; see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 April – 19 May …
- … and nn. 1 and 3). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. O. Westwood, 2 December …
- … 30 November 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12 and Appendix IV). The award was announced in …
- … ici dans cet ordre d’insectes. 11 vols. in 12. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de Roret. …
- … 4 December 1864? ] ( Correspondence vol. 12). Thomas Say . Thaddeus William Harris was …
- … for this paper (see Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix III). See ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
- … occasionally cross together. See also n. 12, below. Hugo von Mohl had argued ( Mohl …
- … 2: A44a–b); see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] . There is …
- … and Oxalis , see Correspondence vols. 10–12. In ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , …
- … pp. 333–5. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] , …
- … generations’ ( OED ). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [ …
- … Review , pp. 138–41 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 April [– …
- … of Walsh 1864c (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 ); …
- … and 19, above, and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] …
- … p. 341). See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 . …
- … 4 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). CD wrote an unsigned review of Bates’s paper …
- … Bombus copulation in Correspondence vol. 12, letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] . …
- … Wollaston, 2 March [1855] and nn. 11 and 12, and Wollaston 1856 , pp. 81–7, 186–94). CD’ …
To B. D. Walsh 27 March [1865]
Summary
Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.
Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,
Rocky Mt. wingless insects,
willow hybrids,
galls,
and other subjects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 27 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4797 |
To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864]
Summary
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4695 |
To B. D. Walsh 9 August [1867]
Summary
Is not sure he thinks so much of BDW’s argument in his last paper as of some others he advanced. Is BDW sure Lucanidae use jaws for holding female in copulation rather than for fighting other males?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 9 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5603 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and September 1867 (vol. 2, nos. 11 and 12). Walsh’s wife was Rebecca Walsh . Walsh …
To B. D. Walsh 20 August [1866]
Summary
On various subjects: Dana’s misquotations,
H. J. Clark’s book Mind in nature [1865],
BDW’s Cynips experiments, galls,
Balbiani’s paper on aphids ["Sur la reproduction et l’embryogénie des pucerons", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 62 (1866): 1231–4, 1285–9, 1390–4].
Claus and other Germans testing CD’s views of variability in common lower animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 20 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5194 |
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- … Digby & Co. ( The Times , 18 August 1866, p. 12), offered to test the commercial value of …
To B. D. Walsh [19] April [1866]
Summary
CD has followed Lyell’s advice and avoided controversy over Origin but encourages BDW to attack S. H. Scudder and others who argue foolishly or misquote him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | [19] Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5061 |
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- … September 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 12, and Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. …
From B. D. Walsh 12 November 1865
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s paper on "Climbing plants".
Mentions Asa Gray’s complimentary notice in Silliman’s Journal [Am. J. Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82].
His difficulty in understanding how males of Daphnia or any other genus can produce eggs. If there is no impregnation, how can there be sexual organs? Why call one form male and another female?
He has sent CD his paper on "the new Potato Bug".
Will soon send "On Phytophagi Species & Unity of Coloration". [phytophagic!?]
Complaints about practices of the English Post Office.
His current research and description of the rationale of his experiments.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Riley bequest of 1948) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4934A |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From B. D. Walsh 12 November 1865 …
- … bequest of 1948) Benjamin Dann Walsh Rock Island, Ill. 12 Nov 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … was inconclusive (see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Lubbock, 3 November …
- … Rock Island. Illinois U.S. Nov. 12, 1865 Chas. Darwin Esq. Dear Sir, I have not answered …
- … in Cynips in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 April – 19 …
- … poda ) which hang on the tree more than 12 months, the particular boughs which bear the …
From B. D. Walsh 7 November 1864
Summary
Notes Louis Agassiz’s opinions on CD’s views.
Mating and sexual organs of insects.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4663 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … letters from Asa Gray , 26 May 1863 and n. 12, and 23 November 1863 and n. 18. For a …
- … see Sorensen 1995 , pp. 199–200 and 211–12. Walsh refers to Alexander Agassiz , son …
- … of Louis Agassiz . In his letter of 12 April 1864 , CD had thanked Agassiz for his …
- … almost to death’s door. So at the end of 12 years I sold out at a great sacrifice, & found …
From Benjamin Dann Walsh [25 February 1867]
Summary
Sends a copy [missing] of a lecture by L. Agassiz on glaciers.
Claims worker wasps can generate additional workers in the absence of the fertile female.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL (bound with Siebold 1857), ML 1: 248–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5419 |
From B. D. Walsh 17 July 1866
Summary
On H. A. Dubois’ attack on "Darwin, Huxley and Lyell"
and H. J. Clark’s Mind in nature [1865].
BDW’s work [on Cynipidae].
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1866 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5159 |
From B. D. Walsh 29 May 1865
Summary
Discusses several subjects, including examples of "Unity of coloration",
the origin of gall-producing poison,
Wagner’s theory of viviparous larvae,
and stridulation in insects.
Sends a reference supporting CD’s statement in Origin that flies check propagation of horses and cattle.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 179, 179a; DAR 207: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4839 |
From B. D. Walsh 25 March 1868
Summary
Sexual preference in insects;
structures for seizing females;
coloration.
Doubts whether CD can make much of a case from insects in support of sexual selection.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A90–1; A117–18, DAR 85: B65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6051 |
From B. D. Walsh [28 November 1866]
Summary
Says Jacob W. Velie wants to exchange birds’ skins with European naturalist.
Comments on meaning of "Darwinism".
Encloses papers from Practical Entomologist.
Discusses Ornithorhynchus paradoxus
and his paper on willow galls.
Mentions human skull found in California.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Nov 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.324a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5319 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … pp. 223–5; see also Correspondence vols. 12 and 13 for earlier discussions between CD …
From B. D. Walsh 29 August 1868
Summary
On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.
Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.
Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.
Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.
Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6332A |
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- … constant by examining 3
♂ of septemdecim & 12♂ of tredecim (the n.sp. ). Glory enough for …
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Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
Summary
You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … barely understand a word. Writing in French on 12 November 1874 to thank Darwin for the …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 9 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, …
- … Stove [that is, cool hothouse]’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March …
- … of different temperatures’ (letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March [1869] , Calendar no. 6661) …
- … 100 yards’ to the greenhouses ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January …
- … in mid-February (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 ). The second list is …
- … Anoectochilus argenteus 12 5 s . …
- … punctatum. 11. Mormodes aurantiaca 12. ‘Anoectochilus argenteus 5 s .’ deleted in …
- … Bolbophyllum barbigerum 12 major …
- … Ampelidae. 11. Alloplectus chrysanthus. 12. Bulbophyllum barbigerum. 13. …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
Summary
Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … Seventy years old Darwin’s seventieth birthday on 12 February was a cause for international …
- … and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of …
- … ). The botanist and schoolteacher Hermann Müller wrote on 12 February to wish Darwin a ‘long and …
- … well, and with little fatigue’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and letter from Leonard …
- … ever about life of D r . D’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 12 July [1879] ). It was little …
- … Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 ). Darwin’s final task …
- … inn ‘ very comfortable’, but told Leonard Darwin on 12 August that there were ‘too many human …
- … not to have come up when the Darwins lunched with him on 12 August (Darwin’s ‘Journal’). Nor did …
- … the world. At the end of the year he was awarded a prize of 12,000 francs by the Turin Academy of …
- … which greatly pleased Darwin ( letter from Grant Allen, 12 February 1879 ). One of Allen’s targets …
- … engagement being made public ( letter from T. H. Farrer, 12 October 1879 ). Darwin’s response not …
- … accurate in its treatment’ ( letter from Francis Galton, 12 November 1879 ). The comment that …
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…
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- … (letters from George Cupples, 21 February 1874 and 12 March 1874 ); the material was …
- … the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii; letters from T. N. Staley, 12 February 1874 and 20 February 1874 …
- … was published in November 1874 ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Though containing …
- … print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Darwin's …
- … Review & in the same type’ ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). George’s letter …
- … he finally wrote a polite, very formal letter to Mivart on 12 January 1875 , refusing to hold any …
- … & snugness’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] ). More …
- … vicar of Deptford ( letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] ), but to her …
- … mechanism that Darwin agreed with ( letter to F. J. Cohn, 12 October 1874 ). Darwin’s American …
- … bank with enormous tips to his ears ( letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 ). The Manchester …
- … excellent, & as clear as light’ ( letter to John Tyndall, 12 August [1874] ). Hooker …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
Summary
< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
Matches: 6 hits
- … made a small omission ’. Stephen’s reply on 12 January was flattering, reassuring, and …
- … books being ‘a game of chance’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 12 April 1881 ). On 18 May he described …
- … Darwin had difficulty in obtaining mature plants. On 12 April, he reported to Müller , ‘I have …
- … to make me happy & contented,’ he told Wallace on 12 July , ‘but life has become very …
- … fight’ (letters to J. D. Hooker, 6 August 1881 and 12 August 1881 ). Darwin may have …
- … else’s judgment on the subject ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 July 1881 ). However, some requests …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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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: 6 hits
- … Hooker: ‘he is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual …
- … of the year, he wrote to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ): ‘my notions on …
- … least 3 classes of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to …
- … passed so miserable a nine months’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 12 September [1862] ). A family …
- … ‘Botany is a new subject to me’ ( letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] ), but, impressed by …
- … into Tyndall’s ears’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10–12 November [1862] ). Another of Darwin’s …
German and Dutch photograph albums
Summary
Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … their generous sympathy. ( Letter to A. A. van Bemmelen, 12 February 1877 ) View the …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … than insectivorous plants. As he confessed to Hooker on 12 December , ‘I have not felt so angry …
- … from his family, he sent a curt note to Mivart on 12 January , breaking off all future …
- … of a bill that was presented to the House of Commons on 12 May, one week after a rival bill based on …
- … The author, Fritz Schultze, contacted Darwin himself on 12 June , describing the aims of his book …
- … scientific Socy. has done in my time,’ he told Hooker on 12 December . ‘I wish that I knew what …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Rubiaceae with enclosures containing bud samples, 12 May 1878 G. H. Darwin's …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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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…
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…
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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…
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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…
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…