To James Smith of Jordanhill 6 February [1848]
Summary
Thanks for present of fossil Balani.
Thanks also for JS’s request to David Landsborough to send barnacle specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Smith of Jordanhill |
Date: | 6 Feb [1848] |
Classmark: | Glasgow City Archives (396/TD1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1153F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … vol. 5, letter to J. E. Gray, 28 March [1854] and n. …
- … finishing Fossil Cirripedia (1851) and (1854) . David Landsborough . CD attended a council …
- … Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ …
- … London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Withers, Thomas Henry. 1928–53. Catalogue of …
- … to James Smith of Jordanhill, 28 January [1848] ). See Fossil Cirripedia (1854) , p. 235. …
- … collection to the British Museum in 1854 (see Withers 1928–53 , 2: 5, and Correspondence …
To J. E. Gray 28 [June 1848]
Summary
Mentions returning borrowed book by Camillo Ranzani.
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from British Museum. "In truth never will a mountain in labour have brought forth such a mouse as my book on the Cirripedia. It is ridiculous the time each species takes me."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 28 [June 1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1187 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Ranzani 1820 , cited in Living Cirripedia (1854): 5, 272, 329 …
- … and Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 10, 37. Conchotrya and Brisnæus are listed as synonyms for …
- … are described in Living Cirripedia (1854): 483–91. The synonym Octomeris stutchburii is …
- … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ of …
- … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854. Gray, John Edward. 1825. A synopsis of …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Ranzani, Camillo. 1820. Osservazioni su i …
To J. S. Bowerbank [January–August 1848]
Summary
Thanks him for Balanus specimens. Comments on his findings. A large Acasta in the wet state would be valuable. Asks JSB to mention his work to J. T. Quekett at the College of Surgeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
Date: | [Jan–Aug 1848] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1045 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … during 1848. In Living Cirripedia (1854): 307 n. , CD thanked Bowerbank for making …
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
- … species, than the whole rest of the known world. ’ ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 159–60). …
- … interesting species’ ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 481 n. ). Pachylasma was of interest for …
To James Smith of Jordanhill 28 January [1848]
Summary
CD asks if he may have the use of the cirripedes JS collected in Portugal. He will need to break up or make a section of at least one of each species.
Expresses admiration for JS’s paper on Malta ["On recent depressions in the land", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 234–40], with its striking demonstration of the change of level between land and water there discovered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Smith of Jordanhill |
Date: | 28 Jan [1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1148 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. …
- … several sources of specimens of fossil Balanus concavus ( Fossil Cirripedia (1854): 17). …
- … In Living Cirripedia (1854): 237–40, CD described how he had to use both living and …
To J. S. Henslow 2 July [1848]
Summary
Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.
Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".
Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 2 July [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A18–A20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … sub-family Chthamalinæ ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 455, 493). CD probably refers to his …
- … John Van Voorst. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Paley, William. 1794. A view of the evidences …
- … this conclusion. In Living Cirripedia (1854): 493, he said Balanus punctatus was the …
To Daniel Sharpe 23 August [1848?]
Summary
Thanks for note.
Glad DS sticks to cleavage and foliation question. Bernhard Studer one of few to take correct view on subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | 23 Aug [1848?] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-991 |
To Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 22 October 1848
Summary
Thanks LA and sends thanks to A. A. Gould for specimens. Describes principal findings of his research on cirripedes. Is obliged for information Joseph Leidy gave about cirripede eyes. Describes anatomical features and chief aspects of growth. Describes discovery of parasitic males and a species parasitic upon other cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Date: | 22 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 274) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1205 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. LL : The life and letters of Charles Darwin, …
- … Saint-Ange 1835 . In Living Cirripedia (1854): 9–20, CD discussed the taxonomic rank of …
- … 1851): 15, 52, and Living Cirripedia (1854): 95, 113. CD often repeated this statement ( …
- … the two systems. In Living Cirripedia (1854): 151–2, CD speculated ‘that Cirripedes were …
To Henri Milne-Edwards 1 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his cirripede work. Asks whether HM-E can arrange for him to borrowspecimens, especially of species described in Dumont d’Urville, Voyage of"Astrolabe" [1830–2]. Lists species that interesthim.
Compliments HM-E on his Crustacés [1834–40].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henri Milne-Edwards |
Date: | 1 Sept [1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1199 |
To John Innes [1848?]
Summary
Suggests various remedies for toothache.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | [1848?] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1141 |
To Augustus Addison Gould 3 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his research on cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens. Comments on previous work on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
Date: | 3 Sept [1848] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 224) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200 |
To John Stevens Henslow [1 April 1848]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his address [Address delivered in the Ipswich Museum on 9th March 1848]. Questions a sentence which implies that only the practical use of a scientific discovery makes it worth while. The instinct for truth justifies science without any practical results. Cites his work on cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [1 Apr 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1167 |
To Edward Cresy [15 July 1848]
Summary
Encloses note from William Buckland [1190], stating that no appointment of surveyor is to be made. Thinks further recommendation would be unwise, but will write to Sir Henry De la Beche and [Robert?] Hutton if EC wishes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [15 July 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1191 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1952. Edwin Chadwick and the public health movement, 1832– 1854. London: Longmans, Green. …
To James Clark Ross 25 February [1848]
Summary
Thanks for sending cirripedes. Cannot make out the label, so can JCR tell him the bank and the depth. Hopes to keep the specimens for 6 or 8 weeks before returning them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Clark Ross |
Date: | 25 Feb [1848] |
Classmark: | Scott Polar Research Institute (MS 1226/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1158A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … were described in Living Cirripedia (1854): 209, 225. The letter is annotated ‘An d 30 …
To Richard Owen [2 April 1848]
Summary
Apologises for length of notes of advice for microscopic work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [2 Apr 1848] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Hyde 77: 2. 82. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1167F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the barnacle: Darwin’s microscopy, 1837–1854. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science …
To J. D. Hooker 10 May 1848
Summary
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 May 1848 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1174 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … published in two volumes ( J. D. Hooker 1854 ). Edward Blyth had gone to India in 1841 to …
To Charles Lyell [16 June 1848]
Summary
Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.
Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.
Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].
Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [16 June 1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1186 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Chambers] 1844 ) was widely known by 1854 ( A. Desmond 1982 , p. 210 n. 28). See …
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Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Smith of Jordanhill, James | (2) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Smith of Jordanhill, James | (2) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
Summary
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,…
Matches: 5 hits
- … cirripedes and culminated in Living Cirripedia (1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1854), again …
- … series of letters pertaining to the Royal Society. In April 1854, when his cirripede study was …
- … indicated by his comment in a letter to Hooker on 29 [May 1854] : ‘Very far from disagreeing with …
- … Back to species theory In September 1854, as soon as the final proofs of the last barnacle …
- … do as I wish it Throughout the correspondence of 1854 and 1855, the overwhelming …
Darwin and Down
Summary
Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
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- … [24 July 1842] To P. G. King, 21 February 1854 : ‘I live in the country about 16 miles …
Scientific Practice
Summary
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’s reading notebooks
Summary
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: 23 hits
- … [Wellesley 1832] Sir. W. Nott’s Life [W. Nott 1854].— [DAR *119: 15v.] From …
- … de la Boheme [Barrande 1852–1911] must be deeply studied 1854 The Zoologist by E. Newman [ …
- … [Pepys 1825] (Read).— Sir W. Notts life [W. Nott 1854] read [DAR *128: 177] …
- … r . Nott & Gliddon: Trübner & Co [J. C. Nott and Gliddon 1854] (read) A Lecture by …
- … not published but reported fully in Literary Gazette Sept 30 1854 91 Agricult. Journal …
- … d’un Naturaliste A. de Quatrefages [Quatrefages de Bréau 1854]. (light reading) (??) read …
- … Domestic animals. 94 Lloyd Scandinavian Adventures 1854 [L. Lloyd 1854]. praised in …
- … sur les Migration des Vegetaux 4 to Pamphlet [Godron 1854] (read) Journal of Asiatic Soc. …
- … specially of central platform of France 8 fr. [Lecoq 1854–8] Read Journal de la Soc. Imp. d …
- … Sir J. Lubbock. member Ferguson on Poultry [Ferguson 1854], recommended by M r Brent, but …
- … D r . Badham “Ancient & Modern Tattle” on Fish [Badham 1854]. M r Tegetmeier says very …
- … (read) From Nott & Gliddon [J. C. Nott and Gliddon 1854] Roselini Monumenta [ …
- … Carboniferous strata, translated in Bull. General [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important …
- … I ought to read Murchinson’s Siluria [Murchison 1854]— I must read it. & buy it.— …
- … W. R. Wilde in Dublin University Magazine early month of 1854 on food of Irish. ( Pig ) [Wilde] …
- … translated into French by Gaudin—with additions [Heer 1854]. Archives du Museum [ Archives …
- … Himmalaya [T. Thomson 1852] [DAR 128: 7] 1854 Jan 11 th . Pulsky Red, …
- … 1848]. March 7 th . Hooker’s Himmalaya [Hooker 1854].— —— 23 Stansbury. Exploration …
- … July 3 d . Sir B. B. Psychological Essays [Brodie] 1854] —— Duval Histoire du Pommier, …
- … Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1854–62] Tome I [DAR 128: 9] …
- … Williams Missionary in T. del Fuego [Hamilton 1854] March 28 th . Sir G. Stephens Lectures …
- … Richardson 1784] (poor) [DAR 128: 10] 1854. Microscopical Journal [ …
- … 1855. Wollastons Insecta Maderensia [Wollaston 1854] —— Johnston Physical Atlas [A. K. …
Darwin and the Church
Summary
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…
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
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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- … on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on …
- … in manuscript form to the Ray Society at the beginning of 1854 , where it took longer than the ‘ …
- … to tell his friend Thomas Henry Huxley in early September 1854, ‘ My second volume on the …
- … Society; the monograph itself was printed in 1854. This volume appears not to have been discussed …
- … but he wrote to the Palaeontographical Society in February 1854 and the society confirmed that he …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
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…
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- … sub-class of Crustacea, Living Cirripedia (1851, 1854) and Fossil Cirripedia (1851, 1854). …
- … spermatozoa’ attached to the female (Living Cirripedia (1854): 23). Darwin had previously worked out …
- … from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another level, to …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
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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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. …
- … In both volumes of Living Cirripedia (1851 and 1854), Darwin devoted an introductory section to …
- … was best placed among the Lepadidae ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 527–8).^1^1^ Both …
- … segments are quite aborted . . . ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 562–3) Indeed, …
- … be the most natural arrangement. ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 588) The fact that the …
- … with his figure of the mature animal ( Living Cirripedia (1854), Plate XXV). Throughout …
- … (1851): 37–8) In Living Cirripedia (1854), Darwin ventured to suggest the possible …
- … by a new and anomalous course. ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 151–2) Crisp (1983) has …
- … from bisexuality to unisexuality. ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 29)^16^ Darwin’s …
- … merely varieties (Southward 1983). In Living Cirripedia (1854), Darwin clearly stated the …
- … be found eminently variable. ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 155) One of the first …
- … a very direct and curious manner’ ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 529). Modern systematists place …
- … nature was demonstrated.’ ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 555). See also Rachootin 1984, pp. 235–6. …
3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
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- … the start a cautious and sometimes a difficult one. In 1854-5 the newly established firm of Henry …
- … who thought that ‘it was probably taken in the year 1854, but he had never seen it’. A slot in the …
- … Walker, dated 1912; the photograph itself is here dated 1854, and accompanied by a facsimile of …
- … Polyblank, photographers date of creation 1854 or early 1855 computer-readable …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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. …
Matches: 6 hits
- … Dramatist 23 Middelburg 20 june 1854 Middelburg 13 october …
- … Deventer 11 september 1854 Deventer 8 march 1936 Haarlem …
- … Phil.nat.cand Leiden 18 july 1854 Batavia 8 march 1896 …
- … University. Utrecht 16 april 1854 Amsterdam 4 january 1928 …
- … Phil.nat.cand. Utrecht 16 april 1854 Amsterdam 4 january …
- … Phil.nat.stud Leiden 19 august 1854 Oud-Beijerland 23 …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
Summary
Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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.…
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- … Dramatist 23 Middelburg 20 June 1854 Middelburg 13 October …
- … Deventer 11 September 1854 Deventer 8 March 1936 Haarlem …
- … Phil.nat.cand Leiden 18 July 1854 Batavia 8 March 1896 …
- … University. Utrecht 16 April 1854 Amsterdam 4 January 1928 …
- … Phil.nat.cand. Utrecht 16 April 1854 Amsterdam 4 January …
- … Phil.nat.stud Leiden 19 August 1854 Oud-Beijerland 23 …
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…
Editorial policy and practice
Summary
Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
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- … used in a strict sense. Thus a letter dated ‘after 8 July 1854’ is judged to have been written very …
Joseph Simms
Summary
The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
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- … in major cities of the US and Canada on physiognomy in 1854. In 1866 he sought training in anatomy …
Scientific Networks
Summary
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,…
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- … Letter 1585 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, [Sept 1854] Darwin sends Lubbock a beetle he …
Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
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…
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- … of logical thought and language. On 20 May 1854, Darwin again took over the notebook and, …
- … a bit of red glass at the garden) 47v. May 1854. Before tea Ch. asked Lenny P. Have you …
- … give me a kiss if you like”. 48 [74] May 20— 1854.— I saw a pile of sand lying on the lawn …
- … I could not help it awfully”.— 49 June 1854— About 9 months ago, Lenny defined being in …
- … Horace Lenny. When ill with Fever & recovering (Dec 1854) used constantly to ask in the …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
Summary
The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2
Summary
< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…
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- … Darwin (with a caption querying the date, and suggesting ‘1854?’). It was reproduced …
Thomas Henry Huxley
Summary
Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
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- … an appointment as paleontologist to the Geological Survey in 1854. He moved quickly to the inner …