From J. P. M. Weale to Norman Lockyer [January 1873]
Summary
On expression among Kaffirs and Hottentots.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8716 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Africa, his Queries on expression in 1867, and Weale distributed copies ( Correspondence …
- … vol. 15, letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 February [1867] , and letter from J. P. …
- … M. Weale, 7 July 1867 ). Weale answered individual questions in his later letters. …
- … letter from J. P. M. Weale, 7 July 1867 and n. 6). Riem: rawhide thong ( Chambers ). …
- … the photograph with his letter of 27 August [1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15). For the …
From J. L. H. Down 18 December 1873
Summary
Describes features of an ear of a microcephalous idiot, one of which contradicts Carl Vogt’s views [Mémoire sur les microcéphales (1867)].
| Author: | John Langdon Haydon Down |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 63–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9191 |
From Francis Darwin [30 September 1873]
Summary
He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8942F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … London: Longmans, Green. Schiff, Moritz. 1867. Leçons sur la physiologie de la digestion, …
- … London: Garland Publishing. 1990. Marshall, John. 1867. Outlines of physiology: human and …
- … Frankland, 21 September [1873] . Marshall 1867 . A fifth edition of John Call Dalton’s A …
- … sur la physiologie de la digestion ( Schiff 1867 ) is cited extensively in Insectivorous …
From John Murray 25 September [1873]
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s cheque.
Sends CD cheque for profits on Orchids and a statement of stock on hand of CD’s works [missing].
Origin and Expression sales are stagnant.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 437, DAR 210.11: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9071 |
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- … 5 1 June By 685 on hand Sep " Electros 3 6 – 4 Reviews 1867 June " Binding 100 Copies 3 – …
- … 5 520 516 On Hand June 1867 " Advertising 20 10 – 165 Sold viz 52 Trade 25 …
- … as 24 6/ 15 – – 113 do " " 6/5 34 19 5 1867 165 June By Balance deficiency 22 2 …
- … 1 72 1 6 72 1 6 1867 June To balance defy 22 2 1 June June By …
- … 516 on hand Carried over Dr Darwin on Orchids Cr 1867 …
- … 1867 June To Balance deficiency 22 2 1 June By 516 on hand 1869 June " Electros 2 10 – 1 …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 December 1873
Summary
Concerning secretion of "bloom";
movements of Robinia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 3–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9189 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1873]
Summary
Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.
Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.
Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.
9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 251–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8733 |
From K. E. von Baer 5 May 1873
Summary
Has been told CD wants photo of him; sends one. Requests a portrait photo of CD for his album. KEvB apologises for his English and his shaky hand; he is 88 years old.
| Author: | Karl Ernst von Baer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8900 |
From W. M. Canby 1 February 1873
Summary
At Asa Gray’s request, responds to CD’s questions about WMC’s observations on Dionaea and particularly about the size of the insects captured and the excitability of the leaves after an insect is captured.
| Author: | William Marriott Canby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8755 |
From A. W. Bennett 12 July 1873
Summary
Believes some flowers fail to produce seed because of the access of too great a quantity of pollen. Asks for CD’s opinion and references.
| Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8976 |
To A. O. Kovalevsky 28 October 1873
Summary
Thanks for AOK’s work on the larvae of the Ascidians.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Александр Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 28 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | Milestones of Science Books (dealers) (2021 catalogue 2, item 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9115F |
To H. C. F. Jenkin 30 April [1873]
Summary
HCFJ’s review of the Origin was the wittiest and in some respects the best written.
Thanks him for his Electricity and magnetism [1873].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8304 |
To Asa Gray 8 January 1873
Summary
Has received, through AG, a letter on Dionaea [from W. M. Canby] which has greatly interested him. CD asks AG to question his correspondent on whether it catches large or small insects.
Mary Treat will observe Drosera filiformis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8728 |
From A. R. Wallace 18 November 1873
Summary
Discussion of his possible assistance on editorial work for revised edition of Descent.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B118–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9151 |
To C. J. Plumptre 19 August [1873?]
Summary
Agrees François Delsarte’s view [that the eyes do not show emotion, only indicate the object of it], is probably wrong.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles John Plumptre |
| Date: | 19 Aug [1873?] |
| Classmark: | Plumptre 1876, pp. 224–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10581F |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 25 June 1873
Summary
Informs CD of the effects of certain salts and other chemicals on animals.
Comments on CD’s results with Drosera. Suggests some experiments.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 116–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8949 |
To Agnes Haeckel [before 3 March 1873]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Agnes Huschke; Agnes Haeckel |
| Date: | [before 3 Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A [34831]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8703F |
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- … 1874–5). Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky had been CD’s Russian translator since 1867. …
From C.-F. Reinwald 4 March 1873
Summary
Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.
Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8797 |
From Charles Hinton 15 June 1873
Summary
Observations on expression.
| Author: | Charles Hinton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8944 |
To A. W. Bennett 11 March [1873]
Summary
Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.438) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9350 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 1–118. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
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| Bennett, A. W. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Baer, K. E. von | (1) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Haeckel, Agnes | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Baer, K. E. von | (1) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
Summary
Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
- … publisher in the final week of 1866. It would take all of 1867 to correct proofs, and just when …
- … becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in 1867, as he continued to circulate a list of …
- … transmutation theory. Three important new correspondents in 1867 were Hermann Müller and Anton Dohrn …
- … the New Year’s greeting, ‘may you be eupeptic through 1867 & your friends & the world in …
- … publisher, John Murray, he wrote to Murray on 3 January 1867 , ‘I cannot tell you how sorry I am …
- … for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] ). A week later, Darwin had …
- … the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867] to his close friend, Joseph …
- … Darwin’s time. The first proof-sheets arrived on 1 March 1867 and the tedious work of correction …
- … . In a letter to his son William dated 27 [March 1867] , he admitted, ‘I fear the book is by no …
- … papers with his first letter to Darwin of 15 March 1867 , although he described some of Alexander …
- … told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send stereotypes of the …
- … had received other offers, notably one from Vogt in April 1867, to translate the new work. Carus had …
- … will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This hint of uncertainty caused …
- … to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). Darwin need not have worried …
- … to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). Darwin may not have fully …
- … in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867] ). Darwin was not disappointed in …
- … the ‘wonderful discovery’ to Darwin on 14 March 1867 . Then, in April, Robert Trail wrote from …
- … in a mottled hybrid ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 ). Darwin told his American friend …
- … physiological fact’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Although he did not succeed in …
- … step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). Darwin’s insecurity persisted, …
- … ferocity’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] ). Even when the corrections were …
- … to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). Dallas resisted the temptation to …
- … as I could wish’ (letter from W. S. Dallas, 20 November 1867). Dallas, like Carus, alerted Darwin to …
- … for information on Fuegian expressions. On 11 January 1867, Sulivan replied , enclosing belated …
- … 27 years old In a letter of 22 February [1867] to Fritz Müller in Brazil, in which …
- … Russel Wallace, who suggested in his response of 11 March [1867] that Darwin send his queries to …
- … ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [12–17] March [1867] ). Darwin’s doggedness in pursuing answers to his …
- … so do not want any more’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). Nevertheless, at some point …
- … in Notes and Queries on China and Japan , 31 August 1867. Another version, possibly derived from …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Matches: 27 hits
- … expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to …
- … Barber, Mary E. [after Feb 1867] [Grahamstown, Cape …
- … Bowker, J.H. [10 Dec 1867] [Cape of Good Hope (South …
- … Bowman, William 5 Aug 1867 5 Clifford St, London, …
- … Darwin, Francis 20 June 1867 Unknown? …
- … Erskine, H. N. B. 1 Nov 1867 [Ahmednuggur, Bombay, …
- … Gaika, Christian 7 July 1867 Bedford [Cape of Good …
- … Geach, F.F. June 1867 Johore, Malaysia …
- … Gibbs, George 31 March 1867 Smithsonian Institution, …
- … Gray, Asa 26 March 1867 Cambridge, Massachusetts, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 12 May - 2 June 1867 Christchurch, …
- … Haast, J.F.J. von 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Hagenauer, F.A. [12 Sept 1867] Lake Wellington, …
- … Huxley, H.A. 22 Mar [1867] Abbey Place, London, …
- … Kempson, L.F. 20 June 1867 Penmaenmawr, Conway, …
- … Lubbock, E.F. [1867-8?] Lombard Street, London? …
- … Muller, Fritz 22 Feb [1867] Down, Kent, England …
- … Paget, James 9 July 1867 1 Harewood Place, Hanover …
- … Rothrock, J.T. 31 March 1867 McVeytown [Pennsylvania …
- … Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 Christchurch, New …
- … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
- … Sutton, Seth 8 Aug 1867 Zoological Gardens, Regents …
- … Swinhoe, Robert 5 Aug 1867 Amoy, China …
- … Wallace, A. R. 2 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent, …
- … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
- … Weale, J.P.M. 7 July 1867 Bedford, Cape of Good Hope …
- … Weale, J.P.M. [10 Dec 1867] Bedford, Cape of Good …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … a series of experiments, reporting back to Bornet in August 1867 that all but one of the varieties …
- … ( To Fritz Müller, [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867 ). The following year, his experiments …
- … to the conditions that might affect his results. In March 1867, he told his close friend Joseph …
- … two distinct plants’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] ). He noted another factor in a letter to …
- … & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was …
- … for part of the year ( To J. T. Moggridge, 1 October [1867] ). Darwin was beginning to suspect …
A fly on the flower: From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1867
Summary
In March 1867, Hermann Müller, a young teacher of natural sciences at a provincial Realschule (a type of secondary school that emphasised the natural sciences) in Lippstadt in the Prussian province of Westphalia, sent Darwin two papers on the mosses of…
John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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: 7 hits
- … Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to Darwin, [after February 1867] Mary Barber responds to …
- … Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin asks his niece, …
- … Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 August 1867] Sutton, the keeper of the …
- … 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] Explorer and geologist Haast …
- … Letter 5585 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [26 July 1867] Darwin praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 5403 - Darwin to Carus, J. V. [17 February 1867] Darwin thanks Carus for his …
- … 5410 - Darwin to Muller, J. F. T., [22 February 1867] Darwin thanks Muller for …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 5605: Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. F. T., 15 Aug [1867] Darwin asks Fritz Müller, a …
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…
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- … 1865 Letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 August [1867] Letter from J P. M. Weale, [10 …
Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
A tale of two bees
Summary
Darwinian evolution theory fundamentally changed the way we understand the environment and even led to the coining of the word 'ecology'. Darwin was fascinated by bees: he devised experiments to study the comb-building technique of honey bees and…
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- … much ahead of his time when, in a letter to Darwin in 1867 , he commented on Edward Wilson’s plan …
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…
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…
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 5457 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Mar 1867 Müller explains how Origin …
- … 5471 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, H. L. H., 29 Mar [1867] Darwin learns that German botanist …
- … Letter 5481 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 1 Apr [1867] Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5657 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. R., 23 Oct 1867 Müller thanks Darwin for the …
- … Letter 5585 — Darwin, C. R. to Darwin, H. E., 26 July [1867] Darwin writes to his daughter …
- … Letter 5745 — Barber, M. E. to Darwin, C. R., [after Feb 1867] In this letter, naturalist, …
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…
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Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
Controversy
Summary
The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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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Religion
Summary
Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … A GRAY 15 AUGUST 1868 177 TO A GRAY 15 APRIL 1867 178 C DARWIN TO JD …
