From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 June 1866
Summary
Reports on his health.
Discusses a surveying expedition under Richard Charles Mayne on which his son will be Second Lieutenant; hopes to arrange for them to excavate some bones in the Falklands.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 286 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5133 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 4 February 1866 and n. 4). In January 1845, while commanding HMS Philomel , Sulivan had …
- … Correspondence vol. 3, letters from B. J. Sulivan, 13 January – 12 February 1845 , and …
- … 4 July 1845 ). Six casks of bones were collected and sent to Richard Owen , who described …
- … see Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1845] , and letter to C. …
- … G. Ehrenberg, 29 October [1845] . For Sulivan’s interest in returning to the site, see …
From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1866]
Summary
Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].
Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.
Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.
Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 July 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (letters): 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5165 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … dispersed during the Miocene period ( Forbes 1845 and 1846). For extensive discussions of …
- … British Association for the Advancement of Science ( Forbes 1845 ; see also n. 8, above). …
- … Geological Survey of Great Britain between 1845 and 1847 (L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 206– …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [mid-July 1845] ). In his letter of [before 17 March 1855] ( …
To Robert Hunt 3 May [1866]
Summary
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
Date: | 3 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5524 |
To George Henslow 15 [June 1866]
Summary
CD believes most strongly in reversion. J. G. Kölreuter’s, K. F. v Gärtner’s, and some of Charles Naudin’s cases leave no doubt in his mind. Forgets whether Herbert gave cases but in conversation he certainly believed in it. Thinks Gärtner is right to say reversion occurs only rarely in plant hybrids which have not been cultivated. [See 5120.]
Variation
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henslow |
Date: | 15 [June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR Library: tipped into George Henslow’s copy of Variation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5123A |
To Thomas Rivers 27 April [1866]
Summary
Asks for racemes of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus and C. adami for comparison, because Robert Caspary argues that C. adami is not a common hybrid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 27 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5070 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845– 78. Variation : The variation of animals …
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 17 February [1866]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5009 |
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- … Erasmus’s sister. In his will of 27 September 1845 (Department of Manuscripts and Records, …
From T. H. Huxley 6 July 1866
Summary
Has taken memorial to G. H. Richards, the Hydrographer. He favours the proposal and will instruct Capt. Mayne. THH will communicate with Dr Cunningham, the naturalist for the expedition.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 311 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5149 |
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- … along the Río Gallegos in Patagonia in 1845 (see letter from B. J. Sulivan, 27 June …
From Frederick Smith March 1866
Summary
Discusses the stinging habits of wasps and bees and whether or not they leave their sting in the wound.
Author: | Frederick Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5023 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. ML : More letters of Charles Darwin: a …
To John Murray 22 February [1866]
Summary
CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5016 |
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- … Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. Variation : The variation of animals …
From Rudolf Suchsland 2 April 1866
Summary
In response to a letter from RS’s father [translation enclosed] Schweizerbart has suggested H. B. Geinitz revise Bronn’s edition of the Origin, but RS doubts he is suitable.
Author: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5045 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Meyer, Jürgen Bona. 1866. Der Darwinismus. [ …
To J. D. Hooker 30 June [1866]
Summary
Has heard from B. J. Sulivan about the fossils at Gallegos, Patagonia. Would be a great haul for palaeontology if Duke of Somerset would encourage Capt. Mayne to collect them [on survey of Magellan Strait].
Tells JDH of a new map of world that he might use in his lecture [on "Insular floras", BAAS, 1866, J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 5 (1867): 23–31; Gard. Chron. (1867): 6, 27, 50, 75].
Impressed by H. Spencer’s last number, but each suggestion would require years of work to be of use to science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 292 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5135 |
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- … discovered bones of fossil mammals in 1845. CD refers to James Young Falkland Sulivan , …
From E. A. Darwin 11 October [1866]
Summary
Disposal of Susan’s effects. Legacies to CD’s children. EAD has taken the letters and papers and asked Henry [Parker] to forward the George Richmond pictures of CD and Emma.
Caroline looks "miserably ill".
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B48–51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5238 |
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- … for CD, at Beesby, near Claythorpe, in 1845 (see Correspondence vol. 3). Henry Parker was …
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1866
Summary
Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5139 |
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- … he had discovered bones of fossil mammals in 1845. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 …
To the Lords of the Admiralty [2–4 July 1866]
Summary
Petition earnestly requesting that a ship surveying the Strait of Magellan collect fossil bones in the south of Patagonia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Admiralty |
Date: | [2–4 July 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5142 |
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- … had discovered the bones in January 1845, while commanding HMS Philomel (see letter from …
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 11 August 1866]
Summary
Describes the difficulties of crossing papilionaceous flowers. Believes the lack of success is a consequence of the need for early castration and successive applications of pollen on the stigma. Gives details of a method he has used to cross such flowers successfully.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 11 Aug 1866] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1866): 756 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5189 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … vol. 2) and had visited Herbert in 1845 ( Correspondence vol. 3, Appendix II). Erythrina …
To Asa Gray 16 April [1866]
Summary
AG’s second article on Climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 41 (1866): 125–30].
Fritz Müller’s observations on Rubiaceae.
New edition [4th] of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5057 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. McKitrick, Eric. 1988. Andrew Johnson and …
From Fritz Müller 13 February 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for Journal of researches.
Insect genus Elater is an exception to the rule that all luminous organs give out a green light.
Gives some observations on climbing plants at Itajahy.
His study of orchids has convinced him of the value of CD’s book.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5004A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Journal of researches : Journal of researches …
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1866
Summary
Drosera and Erica massoni have been sent.
Had heard of Agassiz’s theory but not that CD’s theory had raised it.
JDH wrote the article on A. Murray.
Frankland’s lecture too much for him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 106–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5222 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the incumbent, Robert Graham , in 1845. For a detailed explanation of the council’s …
From Clair James Grece 12 November 1866
Summary
Sends clipping about a pig that has cast its outer skin.
Identifies himself as having a year or two ago pointed out a passage from Aristotle showing that natural selection was known to the ancients.
Author: | Clair James Grece |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 220 and 220a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5276 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … viz. , Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. …
From J. D. Hooker 7 August 1866
Summary
Is attempting to sum up the two theories impartially and must raise all the difficulties with each. More on his differences with CD.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 91–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5183 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1999 , pp. 30–4, 84). Between 1843 and 1845, CD and Hooker had corresponded about the …
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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…
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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- … and anticlinal lines of a geological formation, 3 March 1845 Edward Forbes's " …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … his Journal of researches for a second edition in 1845, having already provided corrections in …
- … vice-presidents in 1844 and remaining on the council from 1845 onwards; he was a conscientious …
- … attacked the work vehemently in the Edinburgh Review (1845), while other colleagues like Edward …
- … his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of [24 April 1845] , he felt he ought to be both …
- … of his Journal of researches for a second edition in 1845. At Lyell’s recommendation, …
- … the original publisher, to John Murray, and throughout 1845 Darwin worked hard to provide manuscript …
- … on board the Beagle back to Tierra del Fuego. By 1845, Darwin was in full command of a …
- … Distribution’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 February 1845] ) and quick to make use of the young …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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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…
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- … vol. 3, letter to Charles Lyell, 8 October [1845] ). Having indulged his senses, Darwin …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … he was working (Darwin to his wife Emma, [7-8 February 1845] ). Although Darwin did not usually …
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…
Matches: 19 hits
- … on Instinct [F. G. Cuvier 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] read L. Jenyns paper on …
- … 1834–9] Carlyles Oliver Cromwell [Carlyle 1845] (read) Keppells(?) voyage to Borneo …
- … Exploring Expedition towards the Rocky Mountains [Frémont 1845]. (amusing extracts). perhaps for …
- … America by A. Downing Wiley & Putnam. 14 s . [Downing 1845] (Brit. Museum) (read) good …
- … [DAR *119: 22] Eyeres Travels [E. J. Eyre 1845] very amusing Tschudi’s Travels in …
- … Campbells Lives of Chancellors [J. Campbell 1845–7] last vol. Ludlows Memoirs …
- … Murchisons Russia [Murchison, Verneuil, and Keyserling 1845] (read) Agassiz’s Works …
- … Wilkes Expedition. £ 3. 3 s [Wilkes 1845] order at L. Library. read Botanical Soc. of …
- … Soc. of Neuchatel on Jura. 1846, or 7, or 8 [?Marcou 1845]. 46 Morris good for me.— …
- … 1853] Vol. V of Campbells Chancellors [J. Campbell 1845–7] Lives of the Lindsays …
- … [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1832–7] Wilkes [Wilkes 1845]. Voyage Vol I. to V Apr …
- … May. Blanco White. Auto-biography [Blanco y Crespo 1845].— 24 Improvisatore [Andersen 1845] …
- … Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] Oct. Cosmos [A. von Humboldt 1845–8]. …
- … Dec. 10 Ray. Society. Vol I. Reports [Ray Society 1845].— 20 D r Badham insect Life …
- … Feb 6 Explanations by Author of Vestiges [Chambers 1845] —— Bronn’s Gesickte [Bronn 1842–3] 2 …
- … [Twamley 1844] —— Whewell on Education [Whewell 1845–52]. Dec: 26. Watson History of …
- … [Heber 1828] —— 31 Kitto on Deafness [Kitto 1845] —— the French in Algiers [Lamping …
- … 1841] April 10 Wagners Anatomy by Tulk [Wagner 1845] (half through) —— 24 Steenstrup …
- … th Elie de Beaumont Lecons Geologie [Élie de Beaumont 1845] skimmed. June 17 th . Downing …
John Murray
Summary
Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … hundred letters from Darwin, from his first negotiations in 1845 until his final years. Although …
- … came to discuss a second edition, probably at the end of 1845, Darwin was not happy with Colburn’s …
- … Colonial Library in three monthly parts (July to September 1845) before being reissued in a single …
- … you have transacted the business with me’ (27 August [1845] Letter 908 ). Thus began the business …
Richard Matthews
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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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…
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
4.51 Frederick Holder 'Life and Work'
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< Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American naturalist Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1891, sought to present him as ‘an example to the youth of all lands’ (p. v). Thus ‘our hero’ was shown to have…
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- … Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. , 2 nd ed. (London: John Murray, 1845), pp. 22, 90, 182, and 384. Francis …
George Darwin born
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The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born
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- … The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born …
Second species sketch
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Darwin finishes an expanded sketch of his species theory, first drafted in 1842
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- … Darwin finishes an expanded sketch of his species theory, first drafted in 1842 …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … In the course of discussions about species in the autumn of 1845, his close friend Joseph Dalton …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … in roman numerals. Others relate to Darwin’s 1839 or 1845 volumes and Belcher’s Narrative of the …
- … The British press was decidedly unsympathetic. Recalled in 1845, he returned home in humiliation as …
- … world, and had copies of both the 1839 Narrative and the 1845 second edition titled Journal of …
- … Borneo, and the Philippines in HMS Samarang from 1842 to 1845, and ended his naval career with …
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…