From Gaston de Saporta 6 September 1868
Summary
Strong support for theory of descent.
Observations on palaeobotany of S. France. Most woody angiosperm genera date far back. Magnolia type unchanged. Intermediate fossil species. Ancient species of Quercus persists as variety of modern species. Fossil evidence of ice age.
CD’s works have been an inspiration in France.
| Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6352 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … 3). See also Saporta 1862–5 , pp. 112–16 (vol. 4), and Saporta 1867–8 , pp. 67, 127 ( …
- … American species to the Tertiary ‘ Quercus elæna ’ in Saporta 1862–5 , p. 143 (vol. …
- … au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de 1853 à 1862 inclusivement. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires …
- … 4th ser. 20: 188–200. ] Gaudry, Albert. 1862–7. Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique, …
- … Hopkins University Press. Saporta, Gaston de. 1862–5. Etudes sur la végétation du sud-est …
- … à l’époque tertiaire. Annales des sciences naturelles (botanique) 4th ser. 16 (1862): 309– …
- … 45; 17 (1862): 191–311; 19 (1863): 5–124; 5th ser. 3 (1865): 5–152; 4 (1865): 5–264. …
- … Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de. 1862. Notice sur les plantes fossiles de Coumi et …
- … atlas. By Albert Gaudry. Paris: F. Savy. 1862–7. ] Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston …
- … Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL ( Saporta 1862 , 1864a, and 1866a). For the reception of …
- … la France à l’époque tertiaire’ ( Saporta 1862–5 ). He had also by this date published the …
- … maple ( Acer monspessulanum ; see Saporta 1862–5 , p. 180, and Saporta 1867–8 , pp. 22, …
- … Mespilus palæo-pyracantha ’. See Saporta 1862–5 , p. 285 (vol. 17), and p. 98 (vol. …
- … former name, U. montana , in Saporta 1862–5 , p. 53 (vol. 19). Saporta had inherited a …
- … Quercus mediterranea (a synonym of Q. pubescens , the downy oak) in Saporta 1862 , p. …
- … 4 (also published in Gaudry 1862–7 , 1: 413). Saporta discussed the relative abundance of …
To Leonard Jenyns 22 February [1868]
Summary
Asks LJ which British birds are polygamous. His query relates to the possession by the male of secondary sexual characters.
CD is also interested in the numerical proportion of the sexes in birds.
Asks about the use of the horns in male lamellicorn or coprophagous beetles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5911 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … University Press. 1985–. Jenyns, Leonard. 1862. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, …
- … and Jenyns has been found later than the 1862 letters (see Correspondence vol. 10). John …
- … to a memorial volume on Henslow edited by Jenyns ( Jenyns 1862 ; see Correspondence vol. …
- … 10, letter to Leonard Jenyns, 24 May [1862] , and letter from …
- … Leonard Jenyns, 28 May 1862 ). On CD and Henslow, see Browne 1995 and 2002. …
From Albert Gaudry 11 January 1868
Summary
Sends an article ["Des lumières que la géologie peut jeter sur … l’histoire ancienne des Athéniens"] extracted from his work [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD’s letters have been an encouragement.
Hopes the belief in transformation will gradually be accepted. For himself the idea in no way undermines his idea of spirituality and his respect for human dignity.
Hopes to continue his work on the genealogical relationship (enchaînement) of fossils.
| Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5784 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … of continuing creation by God in Gaudry 1862–7 , pp. 365–70. See also Correspondence …
- … University Press. 1985–. Gaudry, Albert. 1862–7. Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’ …
- … fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD’s letters have been an encouragement. …
- … on the fossil animals of Greece ( Gaudry 1862–7 ) and separately printed ( Gaudry 1867 ). …
- … seen in these intermediate forms. See Gaudry 1862–7 , pp. 347–55. See also Correspondence …
From Albert Gaudry 9 November 1868
Summary
Asks permission to dedicate to CD his book on the fossil animals and geology of Attica [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD will find much in it relating to the "filiation" of species, genera, and families.
| Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6454 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD will find much in it relating to …
- … University Press. 1985–. Gaudry, Albert. 1862–7. Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’ …
- … sous les auspices de l’Académie des sciences ( Gaudry 1862–7 ). CD’s copy is in the Darwin …
- … The second chapter of part 1 ( Gaudry 1862–7 , 1: 325–70) was published as an offprint …
To Albert Gaudry 17 November 1868
Summary
Thanks AG for Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique [1862–7]. Refers to Lyell’s quotation from AG as "one of the most striking I have ever read on the affiliation of Species".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6464 |
From Ludwig Büchner 9 October [1868 or later]
Summary
Thanks CD for letter of 3 Oct [missing] about LB’s publication.
| Author: | Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig (Ludwig) Büchner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct [1868 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 355 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13783 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Büchner, Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig. 1862. Aus Natur und Wissenschaft. Studien, …
- … several books by Büchner, including Büchner 1862 , Büchner 1868 , and five more from later …
- … years. CD had thanked Büchner for Büchner 1862 in his letter …
- … of 17 November [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD may have sent a letter of thanks for …
From William Boyd Dawkins 31 January 1868
Summary
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5823 |
From Williams & Norgate 2 June 1868
Summary
Progress of CD’s order for certain books.
| Author: | Williams & Norgate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6222 |
From Roland Trimen 13 January 1868
Summary
Variations in the ocelli of Lepidoptera.
Encloses six pages from his catalogue of S. African butterflies [Rhopalocera Africae australis, 2 pts (1862, 1866)].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 40–2, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5785 |
From B. D. Walsh 1 May 1868
Summary
BDW believes the coloration of species [of Anthocaris] provides a case of sexual selection.
The state of entomology in the U. S.; Darwinism now a common creed, especially among entomologists.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A115–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6156 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Walsh’s quotation is from Morris 1862 , which also uses the incorrect subsequent …
- … John Murray. 1871. Morris, John Gottlieb. 1862. Synopsis of the described Lepidoptera of …
- … to John Gottlieb Morris and to Morris 1862 . Morris describes the upper and underside of …
- … the markings of the female ( Morris 1862 , p. 21). Walsh refers to Henry Walter Bates and …
- … was in the family Satyridae ( Morris 1862 ), and is now in the family Nymphalidae, …
From William Erasmus Darwin to Emma Darwin 28 February [1868]
Summary
Crying in babies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5952 |
From J. E. Gray 15 February 1868
Summary
Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.
Discussion of relationships of various pigs.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5880 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Museum’s pig specimens, see J. E. Gray ed. 1862 and J. E. Gray 1868 . Gray apparently …
- … the Zoological Society ( J. E. Gray 1862 ). Sus pliciceps is a synonym of Sus scrofa . …
- … in the British Museum (J. E. Gray ed. 1862), and had remarked that he was unable to …
- … the common domestic pig ( J. E. Gray 1862 , p. 17). Nathusius was critical of Gray’s …
To Roland Trimen 12 February [1868]
Summary
Is interested in the relative numbers of males and females of all animals; wants any instances of males, or females, being in excess.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 64) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5867 |
To Linnean Society 1 June 1868
Summary
Requests 50 copies of his paper ["Offspring of illegitimate unions of di- and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Linnean Society |
| Date: | 1 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Fellows Files No. 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6221 |
From C. V. Naudin 29 March 1868
Summary
Thanks for Variation.
Complains of a severe facial neuralgia.
He is planning to build an experimental laboratory in the south.
| Author: | Charles Victor Naudin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6068 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 October 1868
Summary
Encloses copy of H. Barkly’s answer to JDH’s inquiry on the Seychelles Island crocodile.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 238–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6410 |
To Richard Kippist 12 May [1868?]
Summary
Returns volumes of the Ibis.
Requests T. C. Jerdon’s Birds of India
and Thomas Bell’s British reptiles
as well as vols. 5 & 6 of Ibis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 12 May [1868?] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Fellows Files No. 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6169A |
From Sam Sanday to W. B. Tegetmeier 29 October 1868
Summary
Information on proportion of sexes born in sheep.
| Author: | Samuel (Sam) Sanday |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B22–23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6441 |
To G. H. Darwin [24 March 1868]
Summary
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6044 |
From Roland Trimen 20 February 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in butterflies; discussion of subject at meeting of Entomological Society, London.
Attraction of males by female Lasiocampa quercus. [see Descent 1: 311–12.]
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B59–60a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5902 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Trimen, Roland | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (82) |
| Blyth, Edward | (6) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Trimen, Roland | (6) |
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: 28 hits
- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
- … be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
- … him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
- … Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
- … but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
- … but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
- … him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
- … is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
- … with his study of Primula and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
- … 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
- … in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
- … telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
- … great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
- … labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
- … of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
- … sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
- … case he determined to experiment on Linum in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
- … be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
- … Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
- … who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
- … pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he worried about the resulting …
- … the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his son, William, his …
- … every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I never before felt half so …
- … he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). But he did not have long to wait. ‘It is …
- … it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862). Orchids was published on 15 May, …
- … all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). a flank-movement on the …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 5 hits
- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a …
- … edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of the …
- … of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn some of these …
- … in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he mentioned that he was sending …
- … from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition incorporating …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 8 hits
- … in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
- … cause. Tension. THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
- … 1856 33 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34 JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
- … 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
- … 10 JUNE 1861 121 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
- … 7 JULY 1863 152 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, DECEMBER 1862 153 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 1861 163 C Darwin TO A Gray, 16 OCTOBER 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, …
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: 6 hits
- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, …
- … a construction suitable for tropical plants. In 1861 and 1862, while preparing Orchids , he was …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, Darwin purchased for …
- … over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10) …
- … Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). 3. Asclepias curassavica. …
I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]
Summary
Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.
Matches: 1 hits
- … Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
Summary
This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Clémence Auguste Royer
Summary
Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
- … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
- … 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
- … - Darwin to Wedgwood, K. E. S, M. S. & L. C., [4 August 1862] Darwin thanks his “angel …
Floral Dimorphism
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
Darwin & Glen Roy
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 1 October [1861] To Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] To Charles Lyell, 14 October …
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... 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.
Matches: 1 hits
- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Orchids
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
Matches: 4 hits
- … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles 1862. On the various contrivances by which …
- … 3421 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 30 January 1862 Darwin tells Hooker about a …
- … Letter 3662 —Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 23-4 July 1862 Darwin tells Asa Gray, a professor …
- … Darwin’s work with orchids and Chapter 1 of Darwin’s 1862 book On the various …
Forms of flowers
Summary
Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
Matches: 6 hits
- … briefly mentioned in his Primula paper. In July 1862, Darwin explained to Gray, ‘ I have …
- … of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the …
- … to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun researching in 1862 after Hooker had supplied him with …
- … of Lythrum he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has …
- … of the crossing experiments immediately, but by October 1862, he admitted to Hooker, ‘ I am rather …
- … 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting in November 1862, telling him, ‘ Next year I shall …
Dining at Down House
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
Matches: 4 hits
- … on Verbascum. Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
- … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
- … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
- … vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
Matches: 1 hits
- … [1859] Letter to Charles Kingsley, 6 February [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
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…
Species and varieties
Summary
On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
Sexual selection
Summary
Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …
