Tylor, Alfred. 1867. On the Amiens gravel. [Read 6 November 1867.] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 24 (1868): 1–2, 103–25.
Traube, Moritz. 1867. Experimente zur Theorie der Zellenbildung und Endosmose. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin (1867): 87–165.
Würtenberger, Leopold. 1867. Die Schichtenfolge des schwarzen und braunen Jura im Klettgau. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie (1867): 39–59.
From Friedrich Hildebrand 18 March 1867
Summary
Intends to begin a journal reviewing the botanical literature.
Sends his book [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 206 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5447 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Friedrich Hildebrand 18 March 1867 …
- … 206 Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand Bonn 18 Mar 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … literature. Sends his book [ Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)]. …
- … Hildebrand 1867a to Daniel Oliver (see letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 20 March [1867] ). …
- … Bonn March 18 th | 1867. Dear and honoured Sir you must excuse me not having thanked you …
- … translation (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867). Hildebrand’s paper ‘Ueber die Befruchtung von …
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 3 April 1867
Summary
Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5484 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Isaac Anderson-Henry 3 April 1867 …
- … DAR 159: 67 Isaac Anderson/Isaac Anderson Henry Crieff 3 Apr 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … CD’s letter to Anderson-Henry of 31 March 1867 has not been found. Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … about hybrid potatoes (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 April [1867] , and letter from …
- … Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 ). The page of the Farmer has not been found in the Darwin …
- … Lodge, Drem ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 ); Drem is about three miles east of …
- … see letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 . CD gave information supplied by Trail about …
- … also letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 April [1867] ). The last extant correspondence between CD …
- … CD; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 April [1867] , and Anderson-Henry 1867a . In Anderson- …
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 22 March 1867
Summary
Agrees to publish German edition of Variation.
Discusses publication of third German ed. of Origin.
Thanks CD for portrait.
| Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5454 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 22 March 1867 …
- … 75 E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Stuttgart 22 Mar 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Buchdruckerei Stuttgart 22 März 1867 Verehrtester Herr! Ihr freundliches Schreiben vom 19 …
- … the frontispiece to Bronn and Carus trans. 1867. CD may have sent Schweizerbart a later …
- … Buchdruckerei Stuttgart 22 March 1867 Most honoured Sir! Your friendly letter of the 19th …
- … sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, [19 March 1867] . Schweizerbart refers to Variation (see letter …
- … sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, [19 March 1867] ). Julius Victor Carus . John Murray , CD’s …
- … of £10 from Schweizerbart in September 1867 ( John Murray Archive). Carus had recently …
- … translating the fourth edition of Origin (Bronn and Carus trans. 1867; see letter to J. …
- … V. Carus, 17 February [1867] ). No presentation list for …
- … Bronn and Carus trans. 1867 has been found. CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. The …
From J. D. Hooker 12 February 1867
Summary
Relieved that CD approves his declining the Presidency of BAAS. The BAAS and the role of scientific men in it.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 143–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5399 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 12 February 1867 …
- … DAR 102: 143–4 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 12 Feb 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … his visit between 13 and 21 February (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 March 1867 ). …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] and n. 1. A dining club, later known as …
- … of Science, held at Dundee in September 1867. He was not a man of science; Alfred Russel …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] and n. 21. Hooker evidently saw CD at …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 and n. 7). John Tyndall was one of the …
From W. S. Dallas 8 December 1867
Summary
Some corrections and queries about Variation text. Is pushing hard to finish, but CD is right that the names in the notes make the work interminable. Fears he is causing delay in publication. Is astonished at "the wonderful array of facts brought together and at the manner in which you bring them to bear".
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5712 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From W. S. Dallas 8 December 1867 …
- … DAR 162: 5 William Sweetland Dallas York 8 Dec 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] . For Dallas’s account of the reasons for …
- … York 8 Dec r . 1867 My dear Sir On Page 104 of Vol. I. I think notes 4 & 5 are …
- … also letter to J. V. Carus, 10 December [1867] ). The correction was incorporated in the …
- … also letter to J. V. Carus, 10 December [1867] ). The name Tadorna aegyptiaca for the …
- … letter to J. V. Carus, 10 December [1867] . ‘Dragon’ is the term used in the index ( …
To Asa Gray 16 October [1867]
Summary
Sends sheets of first volume of Variation.
Transport of seeds in locust dung.
Pangenesis will be called "a mad dream".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5649 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Asa Gray 16 October [1867] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (95) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Oct [1867] Asa Gray …
- … letter from Asa Gray, [after 17 September 1867] . CD refers to proof-sheets of Variation. …
- … see letter from Asa Gray, [after 17 September 1867] and n. 2). The Nation was intended to …
- … Canby’s letter in a letter of 8 August [1867] . Evidently, Gray sent further observations, …
- … locust dung with his letter of 7 July 1867 . In his reply to Weale, CD had been doubtful …
- … see letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 August [1867] ). See Origin , p. 363. CD reported the …
- … see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] , n. 7. See letter from Asa Gray …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [after 6 July 1867] . Gray enclosed a letter from William Marriott …
From G. H. Darwin [3 June 1867]
Summary
Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".
Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 June 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5561 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From G. H. Darwin [3 June 1867] …
- … 2 George Howard Darwin Trinity College, Cambridge [3 June 1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Paris; his entrance ticket, valid for the week until 24 June 1867, is in DAR 219.12: 12. …
- … and the letter to G. H. Darwin, 27 May [1867] , and by the reference to Emma’s visit to …
- … George in Cambridge (see n. 4, below). In 1867, 3 June was the first Monday after 27 May. …
- … see letter to G. H. Darwin, 27 May [1867] ). [G[kuttaros]] is used by Aristotle in his …
- … Darwin visited Cambridge from 22 to 25 May 1867 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). It is …
From John Lubbock 28 September [1867]
Summary
Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].
Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5635 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From John Lubbock 28 September [1867] …
- … Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury High Elms 28 Sept [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … from H. B. Jones to Emma Darwin, 1 October [1867] ). CD was correcting proof-sheets of …
- … proofs at the beginning of October (see letter to J. V. Carus, 16 September 1867 ). The …
- … British Association held its annual meeting for 1867 at Dundee from …
- … 4 to 11 September 1867 ( Report of the thirty-seventh meeting of the British Association …
- … he discussed Haliburton 1863 ( Lubbock 1867 ; CD’s annotated copy of an offprint of this …
- … identity of the human mind’ (see Lubbock 1867 , p. 341). According to Emma Darwin’s …
From J. D. Hooker 17 May 1867
Summary
Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.
Will go to Paris again at end of month.
Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.
Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5539 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 17 May 1867 …
- … Correspoddence 188: 125) Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 17 May 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … by Robert Hardwicke . See n. 13, above, and letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 May 1867] . …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, [12] May [1867] ). John Smith was the curator of the Royal …
- … Yr affec | J D Hooker Mauritius 15 th April 1867 My dear D r Hooker Thanks for your Letter …
- … trees ( Gardeners’ Chronicle , 6 April 1867, p. 348). Hooker refers to the Royal Medal …
- … Wallace nor Mueller won a Royal Medal in 1867; Wallace won one in 1868. Hooker refers to …
- … s letter to Henry Barkly of 18 February 1867 in CUL (MS Add 9537). Hooker enclosed his …
- … in his letter to Barkly of 18 February 1867 (see n. 6, above) that an exploration of the …
- … In his letter to Barkly of 18 February 1867 (see n. 6, above), Hooker had said that he …
- … In his letter to Barkly of 18 February 1867 (see n. 6, above), Hooker had written: Since …
- … reference is to Richard Owen . See also letters from J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 and …
- … 20 March 1867 . The reference is to George Clark’s paper on his discovery of dodo remains …
- … was civil commissioner on the Seychelles ( Colonial Office list 1867). Edward Perceval …
- … Wright spent six months in the Seychelles in 1867, and brought back a collection of plants …
From A. R. Wallace 24 February [1867]
Summary
Protective role of colours in caterpillars and butterflies. Sexual differences in colours of butterflies.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A19–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5416 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 24 February [1867] …
- … 21 Alfred Russel Wallace London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9 24 Feb [1867] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter from J. P. M. Weale, 9 January 1867 and n. 7). In Descent 1: 416–17, CD …
- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 23 February 1867 . Henry Walter Bates had advised CD to pose …
- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 23 February 1867) . In Descent 1: 416, CD paraphrased Wallace’s …
- … statement made by Wallace at the 4 March 1867 meeting of the Entomological Society of …
- … there is no further extant correspondence in 1867 regarding these experiments, John Jenner …
- … Weir conducted them in the summers of 1867 and 1868 (see Correspondence vol. 16, letters …
- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 23 February 1867 and n. 5. CD had asked Wallace how he would …
- … see letter to A. R. Wallace, 23 February 1867) . Wallace refers to Gonepteryx rhamni ( …
- … of the Entomological Society of 4 March 1867 of Wallace’s asking for the experiments with …
To Charles Lyell 31 October [1867]
Summary
Describes seeds transported in locust dung. Discusses other cases of transport and migration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.336) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5659 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 31 October [1867] …
- … Mss.B.D25.336) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Oct [1867] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … University Press. 1985–. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern …
- … letter and the letter from J. P. M. Weale, 7 July 1867 . Emma Darwin . James Philip …
- … of locust dung with his letter of 7 July 1867 . In his Experimental notebook (DAR 157a: …
- … the dung was put on burnt sand’ on 27 August 1867, and by 6 September two grass seeds had …
- … II), CD went to London on 28 November 1867. The reference is to Mary Elizabeth Lyell . …
- … edition of Principles of geology ( C. Lyell 1867–8 , 2: 420–1), but did not refer to CD’s …
To A. R. Wallace 26 February [1867]
Summary
ARW’s explanation of protective value of conspicuous coloration is ingenious.
CD still holds to sexual selection with respect to beauty in male butterflies.
Sexual selection and the races of man.
Expression of emotions is another subject he plans to include in his essay [Descent].
Asks ARW to suggest an observer in Malay Archipelago to whom he might send queries [on expression].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 26 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5420 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To A. R. Wallace 26 February [1867] …
- … Library (Add 46434, f. 76) Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Feb [1867] Alfred Russel Wallace …
- … separately from Descent. See also letter to Fritz Müller, 22 February [1867] and n. 13. …
- … letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1867] and n. 2). When he described his enquiry …
- … from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1867] and nn. 5 and 6. Wallace was not convinced that …
- … experiments, see his letter of 24 February [1867] . For CD’s intended publication on …
- … the letter to Edward Blyth, 23 February [1867] and n. 3. CD had tried in 1864 to convince …
- … see letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1867] and n. 8). CD eventually concluded in …
To Thomas Belt 15 January [1867]
Summary
Comments on MS on seed distribution sent by TB.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5364 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Thomas Belt 15 January [1867] …
- … DAR 143: 76 Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Jan [1867] Thomas Belt …
- … Müller, 1 December 1866 , and this volume, letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1867 . …
- … between this letter and the letter from Thomas Belt, 12 January 1867 . Enclosure …
- … to letter from Thomas Belt, 12 January 1867 . Most of Belt’s articles were on geological …
- … London: Royal Society of London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1867–1925. …
To Charles Lyell 9 October [1866]
Summary
Comments on proofs [of Principles of geology, 10th ed. (1867–8)]: CL does not allude to the specialisation of classes.
Discusses CL’s argument from the absence of Cetacea in Secondary rocks;
finds his discussion of man "superfluous and too orthodox".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 Oct [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.320) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5236 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … of Principles of geology , 10th ed. (1867–8)]: CL does not allude to the specialisation of …
- … extent a change of the system’ ( C. Lyell 1867–8 , 1: 167–73). For CD’s differences with …
- … University Press. 1985–. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern …
- … reference to receiving proofs of C. Lyell 1867–8 (see n. 2, below). Lyell’s note has not …
- … first volume of the tenth edition of Principles of geology ( C. Lyell 1867–8 ). The first …
- … volume of C. Lyell 1867–8 was advertised in Publishers’ Circular , 15 November 1866, …
- … The reference is to chapter 13 of C. Lyell 1867–8 , ‘Vicissitudes of climate, how far …
- … 1: 268–304). Chapter 9 of C. Lyell 1867–8 (1: 146–73), which dealt with the progressive …
- … been entirely re-written (see C. Lyell 1867–8 , 1: iii). CD refers to Lyell’s argument …
- … would be found in earlier strata ( C. Lyell 1867–8 , 1: 163). CD refers to the section ‘ …
To Isaac Anderson-Henry 22 May [1867]
Summary
Obliged for case of grafted ash.
Asks about pods of Arabis.
Would like to borrow Maillet [Telliamed (1750)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Date: | 22 May [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5545 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Isaac Anderson-Henry 22 May [1867] …
- … DAR 145: 4 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 May [1867] Isaac Anderson/Isaac Anderson Henry …
- … this letter and the letter from Isaac Anderson-Henry, 20 May 1867 . For the case of the …
- … letter from Isaac Anderson-Henry, 20 May 1867 . The similar case, also involving an ash, …
- … was Arabis blepharophylla. See letters from Isaac Anderson -Henry, 20 May 1867 , 24 …
- … May 1867 , and …
- … 25 May 1867 . CD was interested in the direct action of the male element upon the female …
- … letter from Isaac Anderson-Henry, 20 May 1867 . Richard Owen mentioned Benoît de Maillet …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 26 March [1867]
Summary
Answers VOK’s questions regarding the size of forthcoming Variation and gives his consent to a translation.
But if Origin has not yet been translated into Russian, CD thinks it would be a better book to undertake.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5464 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To V. O. Kovalevsky 26 March [1867] …
- … Leffler Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Mar [1867] Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир …
- … the letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 March 1867 . Kovalevsky was planning to translate …
- … letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 March 1867 and n. 2). The two volumes of Variation …
- … to Kovalevsky for £10 in September 1867 ( John Murray Archive). CD had begun correcting …
- … see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 5 March [1867] and n. 2). Variation was published in …
- … Onufrievich Kovalevsky (see letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 March 1867 and n. 6). …
- … In his letter of 15 March 1867 , Kovalevsky had asked CD to write a short introduction to …
From W. B. Dawkins 7 September 1867
Summary
Variation between individuals of a species.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5623 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From W. B. Dawkins 7 September 1867 …
- … DAR 162: 119 William Boyd Dawkins Upminster 7 Sept 1867 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Upminster | Romford, Essex. 7 Sept. 1867. My dear Sir, I thank you very much for your …
- … see letter to W. B. Dawkins, 26 August [1867] ). CD may have made a specific suggestion …
- … the letter from W. B. Dawkins, 27 August 1867 , although no such letter has been found. …
- … in his letter to CD of 27 August 1867 . Dawkins was collaborating with William Ayshford …
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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…
Matches: 30 hits
- … 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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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- … 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,…
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
