To Robert Downie 14 July [1850]
Summary
An enquiry about the availability, size, and cost of cork-lined boxes for entomological collections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Downie |
| Date: | 14 July [1850] |
| Classmark: | Autos & Autos (dealers) (Catalogue 839) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1343A |
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- … To Robert Downie 14 July [1850] …
- … Autos (dealers) (Catalogue 839) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 July [1850] Robert Downie …
- … book (Down House MS), dated 20 August 1850, that reads: ‘Entomological Box for Willy. …
- … a ‘passion for collecting Lepidoptera’ in 1850. See Correspondence vol. 4, letter …
- … to W. D. Fox, 4 September [1850] . …
To Robert Fitch [5 February 1850]
Summary
Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [5 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1301 |
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To Maria Hooker 31 August [1850]
Summary
Expresses sympathy to MSH on W. J. Hooker’s illness.
Will send his comments on Hodgson’s physico-geographical memoir ["On the physical geography of the Himalayas", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 18 (1849): 761–88] directly to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1349 |
To Robert Fitch [December? 1850]
Summary
Describes progress of J. de C. Sowerby in engraving fossil cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [Dec? 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1376 |
To Robert Fitch [28 January 1850]
Summary
Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses RF’s collection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [28 Jan 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1298 |
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- … To Robert Fitch [28 January 1850] …
- … Norwich Castle Charles Robert Darwin Down [28 Jan 1850] Robert Fitch …
- … Dated from the relationship to letters to Robert Fitch , 15 January [1850] and [ …
- … 23 January 1850] . Pollicipes maximus and Pollicipes sulcatus ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851): …
- … letter to J. J. S. Steenstrup, 3 April [1850] , in which CD stated that James de Carle …
- … to J. J. S. Steenstrup, 1 September 1850 . Angelin had found a single scutum, which he …
To Charles Lyell [3 January 1850]
Summary
Discusses CL’s paper, "On craters of denudation" [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): 207–34], which "will be a thorn in the side of É[lie] de B[eaumont]". Notes evidence from Galapagos overlooked by CL. Mentions other examples of craters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [3 Jan 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.90) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1287 |
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- … To Charles Lyell [3 January 1850] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.90) Charles Robert Darwin Down [3 Jan 1850] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … 18 November 1849] . The drawing was omitted in C. Lyell 1850a . J. D. Forbes 1850 . …
- … denudation" [ Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): 207–34], which "will be a thorn in the side …
- … Inseln. Berlin. Forbes, James David. 1850. On the volcanic formations of the Alban Hills, …
To Robert Fitch 3 November [1850]
Summary
Explains that fossil cirripede specimens have not been returned because J. de C. Sowerby has been monstrously delayed with the engravings. Members of Palaeontographical Society have urged Sowerby to complete task.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1366 |
To S. P. Woodward [April 1850 – January 1851]
Summary
Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | [Apr 1850 – Jan 1851] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13807 |
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- … To S. P. Woodward [April 1850 – January 1851] …
- … Collection Charles Robert Darwin Down [Apr 1850 – Jan 1851] Samuel Pickworth Woodward …
- … See letter to S. P. Woodward, 21 March [1850] , and Fossil Cirripedia (1851) in which all …
- … letter to S. P. Woodward, 21 March [1850] ) and the date of completion of the manuscript …
- … See letter to S. P. Woodward, 21 March [1850] . Scalpellum trilineatum is a synonym of …
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 7 November [1850]
Summary
Has sent G. B. Sowerby Jr some skeleton plates [for vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] which the Council [of the Ray Society] may also wish to see, along with GBS’s finished drawings. He reminds EL that he has not heard about colour for the plates and adds he has not been told what type should be used; gives estimated lengths of part 1 in different sizes of type (part 2 will be fully twice the size of this). Hopes if the Council does not publish part 1 in 1851 it will publish all in 1852.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 7 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1367 |
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- … To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 7 November [1850] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Nov [1850] Edwin Lankester Ray Society …
- … of the Ray Society held on 18 November 1850 it was resolved ‘to publish M r . Darwin’s …
- … Bibliography Baird, William. 1850. The natural history of the British Entomostraca. …
- … Baird 1850 , also published by the Ray Society . The first volume of Living Cirripedia ( …
- … See letter to Edwin Lankester, 27 October [1850] , n. 3. The second volume of Living …
To J. de C. Sowerby 12 September [1850]
Summary
CD has two corrections in spelling on woodcut [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has asked J. S. Bowerbank who should cut the blocks and suggested JdeCS get it done. Repeats arrangements to compare specimens and proofs in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1358 |
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- … To J. de C. Sowerby 12 September [1850] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Sept [1850] James de Carle Sowerby …
- … Letter to J. S. Bowerbank, 10 September [1850] . Ultimately there were five plates. Tab. …
- … ways from every other known cirripede (see letter to N. T. Wetherell, 8 [August 1850] ). …
Berkeley, Miles Joseph. 1850–1. Gärtner’s observations upon muling among plants. Journal of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1850): 156–72; 6 (1851): 1–13.
Townsend, John Kirk. 1850. On the giant wolf of North America.– Lupus gigas. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2d ser. 2 (1850–4): 75–9.
Vilmorin, Louis de. 1850. Note sur une variété non épineuse de l’ajonc ou landier (Ulex europæus, L.). [Read 11 February 1850.] Comptes rendus hebdomadaires de l’Académie des Sciences (Institut de France) 30: 143–5.
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1850]
Summary
Hooker’s imprisonment.
Birth of Leonard Darwin.
Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1300 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1850] …
- … DAR 114: 117 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Feb [1850] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … See CD’s letter to W. J. Hooker, [January 1850] , n. 1. CD was elected onto the …
- … only one council meeting on 7 February 1850 and was not re-elected (Royal Society, Minutes …
- … February 1849 . The Times , 24 January 1850, p. 4, records the shipwreck of the transport …
To Albany Hancock 25 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1378 |
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- … To Albany Hancock 25 December [1850] …
- … Charles Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Dec [1850] Albany Hancock …
- … Society. 1854. Reinhardt, Johannes Theodor. 1850. Om slægten Lithotryas Evne til at bore …
- … September [1849] , 25 December [1849] , and [26 January – March 1850] . See letter to J. …
- … J. S. Steenstrup, 20 May [1850] , in which CD acknowledged receipt of the drawing. The …
- … figs. 2 and 2a’, copied from Reinhardt 1850 . The memoir accompanying the drawing, which …
- … letter to J. J. S. Steenstrup, 1 September [1850] , was not received until after CD’s own …
From Charles Pickering 9 January 1850
Summary
Lists plants of Metia or Aurora Island collected during visit in Sept 1839. Flora same as that of neighbouring Tahiti.
| Author: | Charles Pickering |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1850 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1289 |
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- … From Charles Pickering 9 January 1850 …
- … DAR 205.4: 99 Charles Pickering Boston Mass. 9 Jan 1850 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … either accidentally, or for the purposes of cultivation. C. P. Boston, Jan. 9 th . 1850. …
- … the list. CD referred to this letter in letter to J. D. Dana, 24 February [1850] . …
To J. S. Bowerbank 25 February [1850]
Summary
Is sending JSB sponges.
He returns the Plumularia on which the beautiful Scalpellum ornatum was attached. [See 1229.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1305A |
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- … To J. S. Bowerbank 25 February [1850] …
- … DAR 185: 104 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Feb [1850] James Scott Bowerbank …
- … in London between May 1849 and September 1850 ( Parmenter 1981 , catalogue no. 58A). …
- … voyage, see R. D. Keynes ed. 2000. In 1850, 25 February was a Monday and the following …
- … letter to J. de C. Sowerby, 3 March [1850] , CD refers to delayed plans to visit London …
To Louis Agassiz 15 June [1850]
Summary
Thanks LA for presentation copy of his book, Lake Superior [1850].
Comments on species of cirripedes sent by LA and A. A. Gould.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 15 June [1850] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 275) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1341 |
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- … To Louis Agassiz 15 June [1850] …
- … letterhead; posted from Down on .06.19 15 June [1850] Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz …
- … for presentation copy of his book, Lake Superior [1850]. Comments on species of cirripedes …
- … CD’s presentation copy of Agassiz 1850 (Darwin Library–CUL) is scored and annotated. Four …
To Robert Fitch 10 January [1850]
Summary
Thanks him for sending fossil cirripede specimens. Unfortunately one was broken in transit. Asks if James de Carle Sowerby may draw specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1290 |
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Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … Covington still assisted Darwin in his work: in 1850 he sent a box of barnacles to London , some …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
What is an experiment?
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Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
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- … the best observers’ ( letter to C. H. L. Woodd , 4 March 1850 ). He made the point more …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … occasions in his correspondence with Hooker. On 13 June [1850] , for example, Darwin wrote: …
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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- … state of indecision’ (Darwin to W. D. Fox, 10 October [1850] ) as he and Emma tried to choose …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … when he first wrote out his species essay in full. In 1850, he had written to Hooker ( …
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…
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- … Memoirs of Plumer Ward by Hon Phipps [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] …
- … & will lend me— Pickering Races of Man [Pickering 1850]. (has a good chapter). …
- … Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith [Newman 1850] Burnetts Hist. of own time …
- … Miss. Fennimore Cooper. Rural Scenes in N.A [Cooper 1850] G. Cummings South African Huntsmans …
- … Dana’s Geology. U.S. Expedition [J. D. Dana 1849] 1850 March Forbes Cystideæ & …
- … [Harvey 1849] —— Agassiz Lake Superior [Agassiz 1850] Nov. Memoirs of Pal. Soc [ …
- … 12. Sedgwicks Discourse on Study of Univers [Sedgwick 1850] 28 Steenstrup on …
- … Feb. 3 d . Hutchinson on Dog-breaking [Hutchinson 1850] 27. Chambers. Sanatory Reform [Anon …
- … 5. Collin’s Autobiography [?Collins 1848]. good 1850 . Jan 15 th Lives of …
- … March 16 th . Newman Phases of Faith [Newman 1850] excellent —— Lord Cloncurry Memoirs …
- … 1846] May 20 G. Cumming S. African Hunter [Cumming 1850] goodish July 1 st . …
- … Sept 12 th . B. Franklins life by Sparks [Sparks ed. 1850] very good Oct 3 Martineau …
- … Podrome de Paleantologie stratigraphique [Orbigny 1850–2] 24 fr: 3. vols. The Vegetation of …
- … Danicorum Mammalium Domesticorum by Prof. Benddz [Bendz 1850]— Plates very expensive Coll. of …
- … Anat. der Wirbellosen Thiere. 1848 [K. T. E. von Siebold 1850].— [DAR *128: 180] …
- … Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science ] (1850? 1851?) must positively be read …
- … to aid me on skeletons Knox Races of Mankind [R. Knox 1850] a curious Book. (Blyth). in …
- … of the Horticultural Society of London ]. Vol I. to V. (1850) VI & VII May 27 th . …
- … [Agassiz 1835] —— 30 Bairds Entomostraca [Baird 1850] May 22 d . Madras Journal of …
- … 1853. Jan. 27 th Life of D r . Coombe [Combe 1850]. good Feb. 6. Letters of Ray …
- … Histoire du Pommier, Poirier, Pêcher [Duval 1852, 1849, 1850] —— 27 th . Hist. Nat. Gen. de …
- … Sept. 4. Nunn’s Shipwreck in the Favorite [Nunn 1850] —— 16 Pepys Diary. Vol 1. 2. 3 d …
- … Facultes Interieurs des animaux invertebres [Macquart 1850]. —— 8 th Gosse Naturalist …
- … 1854] —— Johnston Physical Atlas [A. K. Johnston 1850]. March 28 th Sebastian …
- … [DAR 128: 13] Aug. 20 Weber der Taubenfreund 1850 [Weber 1850] Sept. 1 st . Puvis …
- … [Veith 1856].— 3 d Knox Races of Man.— 1850 [R. Knox 1850] 7. Willughby by Ray …
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…
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … (Moore 1985; letter to J. S. Henslow, 17 January [1850] and n. 6; and letter to J. B. Innes, …
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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- … 1853 . Preparing for publication Until 1850, Darwin had probably expected the Ray …
- … I have not yet thought’, Darwin told Bowerbank in January 1850, ‘ your mentioning the Palæont. Soc. …
- … was accepted by the Palaeontographical Society by February 1850 , and in the end, Darwin was …
- … many parcels I have no doubt they wd aid me’. By April 1850, he reported to Steenstrup that he had ‘ …
- … and after requiring late changes by Sowerby in September 1850, told him, ‘ I hope to God I have now …
- … the first fossil volume approached completion in September 1850, Darwin had reported on his progress …
Suggested reading
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Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
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Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
Barnacles
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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- … Letter 1370 —Darwin to Syms Covington, 23 Nov 1850 In this letter, Darwin thanks his …
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. …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … myself on you’ ( letter to Wilhelm Dunker, 3 March [1850] ). In the mid-1850s, Darwin was …
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.…
1.3 Thomas Herbert Maguire, lithograph
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< Back to Introduction This striking portrait of Darwin, dating from 1849, belonged to a series of about sixty lithographic portraits of naturalists and other scientists drawn by Thomas Herbert Maguire. They were successively commissioned over a…
Leonard Darwin born
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The Darwins' eighth child and fourth son, Leonard, is born
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- … The Darwins' eighth child and fourth son, Leonard, is born …
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…
